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Ira Glass on trusting the process to find your creative voice
Written by May 16th, 2012 in Found.0 CommentsCreative Process of a Painter
Written by May 6th, 2012 in Around Town, Beautiful Stuff, Found and Getting Creative.0 CommentsI met Malo, a painter from Columbia, this past weekend. He was a delight to talk to, and had a lot to say about his process, his burgeoning visual art career (he was previously a fashion photographer, he told me), and the art of relationship-building that it’s based on. All the stuff DK is always [...]
In Search of Meaning (35): Ozu and the soft and calm
Written by April 29th, 2012 in Beautiful Stuff and Found.0 CommentsCan’t stop thinking about this cinematographically tight, ace story by master filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu, last mentioned by me when we met logo designer Kiyoshi Inoue. The film is called “Sanma no Aji,” which translates as “The Taste of Mackerel,” but for marketing purposes to English audiences, they called it “An Autumn Afternoon.”
How an ex con becomes an inspiration
Written by April 25th, 2012 in Around Town and Found.0 Comments
Photo of Otis Lyons courtesy Scenes From My Lunch Hour, from this article on Otis Lyons
When he was 12, Otis Lyons‘ mother told him to leave home. “My mother was on drugs every day,” he said to a group gathered at the Durham Rotary Club’s meeting downtown yesterday.
Turning to gangs and the rough life in poor neighborhoods of Durham, he was thrown into jail and sentenced for 30 years for being “influential,” he said. Some of that time he was in solitary confinement. But the sentence was overturned, and in 1994, Lyons was released. With a new lease on life, Lyons committed to an abstract idea. Giving kids hope. “Every kid has some good in him.”
The Artists are Present in Durham this Saturday
Written by April 24th, 2012 in Around Town and Getting Creative.0 Comments
Something new.
Improv art show.
Sidewalk sale. Sharpie tattoos. Us. You.
7 photographers DK loves and recommends
Written by April 19th, 2012 in Around Town, Beautiful Stuff, Found, Getting Creative and Process.1 Comment
A video by Seattle videographer Patrick Wright
Sometimes we need to hire photographers. It could be for events, for portraits, or for our clients’ web site imagery.
Here are some people we’ve gotten to know personally, and whom we love working with because they’re professional, talented, and probably most important: fun to be around. (Who wants to work with cranky artists? Not me! Yet, there are so very many…)
In Search of Meaning (34): ‘You often need a lot of new input’
Written by April 17th, 2012 in Around Town and Process.2 Comments
To Buda or Pest?
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