11x14” Gelatin Silver print. Last one in my Sublime Monsters project (year 2). Printed in Melbourne, Florida May 28, 2012.
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Heidi Targee: Photographer, artist, experience junkie
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2012-05-28
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2012-05-26
Francis Bacon - Study for Head of Lucian Freud, 1967. Oil on canvas
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2012-05-21
The blizzard doesn’t last forever; it just seems so.
— Ray Bradbury on creative purpose in the face of the storm of rejection. (via explore-blog)
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2012-05-16
Every really good creative person…whom I have ever known has always had two noticeable characteristics. First, there was no subject under the sun in which he could not easily get interested-from, say, Egyptian burial customs to modern art. Every facet of life had fascination for him. Second, he was an extensive browser in all sorts of fields of information. For it is with the [creative] man as with the cow: no browsing, no milk.
— James Webb Young, writing in his 1939 guide to producing ideas, articulates a timeless truth about the relationship between curiosity and creativity. (via explore-blog)
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2012-05-15
Untitled prints adapted from the drawings of schizophrenics
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2012-05-10
What you do is to take the different bits of material which you have gathered and feel them all over, as it were, with the tentacles of the mind. You take one fact, turn it this way and that, look at it in different lights, and feel for the meaning of it. You bring two facts together and see how they fit. What you are seeking now is the relationship, a synthesis where everything will come together in a neat combination, like a jig-saw puzzle.
— Step 2 of James Webb Young’s 5-step technique for producing ideas circa 1939 (via explore-blog)
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If you can hold it, as one holds liquor, exhaustion is its own kind of drug.
— Fantastic New York Magazine piece by Kathryn Schulz on writing (and running) in the dark and the circadian curse of being a “night owl.” (via explore-blog)
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2012-05-01
6. Read obituaries. They are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives.
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Charles Wheelan on 10 things commencement speakers won’t tell you, to complement some timeless smart things commencement speakers do tell you.
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Artists have a vested interest in our believing in the flash of revelation, the so-called inspiration… shining down from heavens as a ray of grace. In reality, the imagination of the good artist or thinker produces continuously good, mediocre or bad things, but his judgment, trained and sharpened to a fine point, rejects, selects, connects… All great artists and thinkers are great workers, indefatigable not only in inventing, but also in rejecting, sifting, transforming, ordering.
— Nietzsche (via explore-blog)
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2012-04-29
A good library doesn’t just surround you with all the great works of history – it has a certain intellectual aesthetic even in its smell and touch.
— Zach Weiner on the challenges and future of libraries. (via explore-blog)
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2012-04-27
Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt use it—don’t cheat with it. Be as faithful to it as a scientist—but don’t think anything is of any importance because it happens to you or anyone belonging to you.
— Hemingway’s letter of advice to F. Scott Fitzgerald, a fine addition to other notable advice on writing. (via explore-blog)
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2012-04-25
A perfect man wd. never act from a sense of duty; he’d always want the right thing more than the wrong one. Duty is only a substitute for love (of God and of other people), like a crutch, which is a substitute for a leg. Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it’s idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (or own loves, tastes, habits etc) can do the journey on their own!
— C.S. Lewis, in a letter to a child. (via explore-blog)
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2012-04-24
Allow sufficient time during daylight to make an occasional visit to museums or an occasional sketch or an occasional bike ride. Sketch in cafés and trains and streets. Cut the movies! Library for references once a week.
— Henry Miller’s creative routine and his 11 commandments of writing. (via explore-blog)
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2012-04-13
1. Space (“You can’t become playful, and therefore creative, if you’re under your usual pressures.”)
2. Time (“It’s not enough to create space; you have to create your space for a specific period of time.”)
3. Time (“Giving your mind as long as possible to come up with something original,” and learning to tolerate the discomfort of pondering time and indecision.)
4. Confidence (“Nothing will stop you being creative so effectively as the fear of making a mistake.”)
5. Humor (“The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.”)
— Monty Python’s John Cleese on the 5 factors to make your life more creative (via explore-blog)
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A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of depression, but a Beethoven symphony reveals what that depression feels like. Both perspectives are necessary if we are to fully grasp the nature of mind, yet they are rarely brought together.
— In The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present, Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel explores how the unique flow of ideas between artists and scientists in early 20th-century Vienna shaped much of contemporary culture. (via explore-blog)
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