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¿Por qué fotografías?

Por que me obliga a ver con atención lo que me rodea.


Enthusiasm as Strategy

I am fortunate to have many very talented friends. Some of these I consider my foils (read this post to know what I mean). Enrique Gonzalez Muller is certainly on of these friends. If I had to choose one single person responsible for getting me into music, it would have to be Enrique, with his [...]


Where is the Mouse?

I read this a few weeks ago at a couple of blogs, it it is too good to let go. The rest of the speech is very worthwhile.
Media that’s targeted at you but doesn’t include you may not be worth sitting still for.
-Clay Shirky, from this speech at the Web 2.0 Conference


Newspaper Blackout Poems

Austin Kleon takes newspaper articles and blacks out whole sections. The words he doesn’t blackout reveal new surprising meanings. Great. I wonder how one can translate this way of working to other disciplines.
By the way, this particular poem reminds me of why I’m into photography.
(via kottke)


You can’t please everyone…

…so please people with good taste.
(Mike Elgan writing about Apple)


Titles

The First Mortgage
I’m Quite All Right, Thank You
Scientists Removing Flowers from Horse
Dry All My Tears
Unicyclist Turf War
Stringing You Along
Man Trips and Falls In His Own Country
Man Ponders Kicking Friend in Head
Oversized Man Entertains The City
An Elusive Dream
Bear Experiencing Jealousy
A Painful Reminder
Women and Cats Do as They Please

These titles belong to these paintings by Mike Stilkey. I [...]


Make a Lot of Art

My advice is always to make a lot of art; to make a lot of art, then look at what you have made and then think about what you have done. If you think first, you will never do anything or you will do something boring.
Dave Hickey


Picking Projects

I never pick my projects, my projects inevitably pick me. I don’t mean that glibly. I’ve learned to listen to what moves and troubles me, and that leads me to where I have to go next.
Mitch Epstein via this interview in Conscientitious


Art and Technique

Organ and Bach
yes
mandolin and Bach
no
each art has its own technique
each technique has its own art
each era has its own techniques
new techniques
new art forms
art isn’t technique
technique isn’t art
Bruno Munari


Oblique Strategy

Is it finished? / ¿Está terminado?  - Brian Eno & Peter Schmidt, Oblique Strategies


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