I added some new links in the photo blog section. These have all been around a while but I would highly recommend reading Heather Mortons Blog on daily basis,lots of good info and perspective from our neighbors to the north.
I also find Thomas Broening's and Timothy Archibald's blogs interesting too.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Saturday, April 19, 2008
40 years
Sometimes peoples fears get the best of them. You can be afraid to fail and you can be afraid to succeed and some can be afraid of both at the same time. You can cloud your thoughts with over thinking. I'm not big on setting goals because I think they are traps for giving up when a goal isn't reach by a certain timeline. I also believe that your goals will change as you move forward and you should go with that instinct as long as you are positive about the change. I have stated before that I'm a big fan of change, good and bad all lead to some place new.
Every marketing guru in the world will tell you to do what you love, do one thing and do it really well. Create your brand and stick to it. I think that's good advice from a marketing standpoint but I think sometimes people do this too early in their career and pass on opportunities that may help them down the road. I hate when I hear young photographers or assistants say "that's not what I do". I think it's a bit naive and close minded for a" creative person" to put themselves in a box right out of school. You may find out that your really good at a different genre and apply that knowledge in the future. Everybody has there own idea of what being successful is. I have seen many talented people give up on their dream because they couldn't adapt to change. I may have a different outlook but my idea is that if you get out of college by twenty five years old you have forty years to be a photographer until you turn sixty five. Do you really want to spend forty,thirty,twenty years shooting the same type stuff? Not all of us are going to make millions and millions of dollars in a ten year period and then fade off into the sunset and do book projects and gallery shows.
I also believe you have to be open minded about your location. Sometimes you have to move for opportunity,but some people aren't willing to do that. Big cities are not always the best place to work, I started in a large market, moved to a very small market. I was lucky, the small market I moved to allowed me to work on very large jobs for big clients at a very young age. I would have never gotten that experience in a big city. I got to work with extremely talented people without all the big city click bullshit.
I am currently in a large market ,opportunity once again brought me back. Like all opportunity there is a certain amount of risk, financial and mental. Each of these categories carry the same weight in my opinion. One feeds the other. Over the years I have witnessed people fold under these pressure's. If you don't open yourself to different experiences at the beginning of your career it can come back to haunt you.
I have learned more from bad experience's than good ones.
Every marketing guru in the world will tell you to do what you love, do one thing and do it really well. Create your brand and stick to it. I think that's good advice from a marketing standpoint but I think sometimes people do this too early in their career and pass on opportunities that may help them down the road. I hate when I hear young photographers or assistants say "that's not what I do". I think it's a bit naive and close minded for a" creative person" to put themselves in a box right out of school. You may find out that your really good at a different genre and apply that knowledge in the future. Everybody has there own idea of what being successful is. I have seen many talented people give up on their dream because they couldn't adapt to change. I may have a different outlook but my idea is that if you get out of college by twenty five years old you have forty years to be a photographer until you turn sixty five. Do you really want to spend forty,thirty,twenty years shooting the same type stuff? Not all of us are going to make millions and millions of dollars in a ten year period and then fade off into the sunset and do book projects and gallery shows.
I also believe you have to be open minded about your location. Sometimes you have to move for opportunity,but some people aren't willing to do that. Big cities are not always the best place to work, I started in a large market, moved to a very small market. I was lucky, the small market I moved to allowed me to work on very large jobs for big clients at a very young age. I would have never gotten that experience in a big city. I got to work with extremely talented people without all the big city click bullshit.
I am currently in a large market ,opportunity once again brought me back. Like all opportunity there is a certain amount of risk, financial and mental. Each of these categories carry the same weight in my opinion. One feeds the other. Over the years I have witnessed people fold under these pressure's. If you don't open yourself to different experiences at the beginning of your career it can come back to haunt you.
I have learned more from bad experience's than good ones.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Ad-Lib
The Tavis Smiley Show, August 11, 2004 - Richie Havens will be forever remembered for his powerful performance of the song "Freedom" at perhaps the best-known music festival ever — the three days of peace, love and music at Woodstock, New York, in 1969.
It was the "coming out" party of the rock 'n 'roll generation. And as Havens tells NPR's Tony Cox, "it was the begining of the world, as far I was concerned."
As Woodstock's opening act, Havens was scheduled to spend just 20 minutes on stage. But after his set, he was asked to keep singing because the second act, Santana, was nowhere to be found.
"So I'd go back and sing three more," Havens says. "This happened six times. So I sung every song I knew."
By that time, Havens had been onstage almost three hours — and still they needed more. "And I thought, 'Gosh, what am I going to do?'"
Then he belted out "Freedom," and his electric ad-lib performance set the tone for the next three days. "The word 'freedom' came out of my mouth because this was our real particular freedom," he tells Cox. "We'd finally made it to above ground."
According to PC's own archives I believe that Santana could not be found because he was under the impression that he was scheduled to go on later and decided now would be a good time to drop acid. I found some info that supports my archives.
Carlos (in an interview on The King Biscuit Flour Hour)said that he didn't remember if it was Acid or Mescaline that he had dropped. They were scheduled to go on later in the evening so taking it was ok. Thing was though, that they changed the time on him and it was "go on now or forget it". So they went on, all "peaking" and everthing. Oh! and about that "jam session" I watched them at Aquatic Park in S.F. jam on weekends, he had his brother Jorge (from Malo) jamming with them.
- Bob, San Jose, CA
Carlos Santana later said he was on acid during his Woodstock performance, and the reason he looks a little harrassed is that his guitar kept turning into a snake, and he would have to change it back so he could go on playing. It's not certain whether he took the brown acid (which was initially given out free to musicians at the show) but perhaps this is one of the experiences that led announcers to warn people that the brown acid wasn't too good.
- Ekristheh, Halath, United States
Source
You can watch Carlos wrestle the snake here
It was the "coming out" party of the rock 'n 'roll generation. And as Havens tells NPR's Tony Cox, "it was the begining of the world, as far I was concerned."
As Woodstock's opening act, Havens was scheduled to spend just 20 minutes on stage. But after his set, he was asked to keep singing because the second act, Santana, was nowhere to be found.
"So I'd go back and sing three more," Havens says. "This happened six times. So I sung every song I knew."
By that time, Havens had been onstage almost three hours — and still they needed more. "And I thought, 'Gosh, what am I going to do?'"
Then he belted out "Freedom," and his electric ad-lib performance set the tone for the next three days. "The word 'freedom' came out of my mouth because this was our real particular freedom," he tells Cox. "We'd finally made it to above ground."
According to PC's own archives I believe that Santana could not be found because he was under the impression that he was scheduled to go on later and decided now would be a good time to drop acid. I found some info that supports my archives.
Carlos (in an interview on The King Biscuit Flour Hour)said that he didn't remember if it was Acid or Mescaline that he had dropped. They were scheduled to go on later in the evening so taking it was ok. Thing was though, that they changed the time on him and it was "go on now or forget it". So they went on, all "peaking" and everthing. Oh! and about that "jam session" I watched them at Aquatic Park in S.F. jam on weekends, he had his brother Jorge (from Malo) jamming with them.
- Bob, San Jose, CA
Carlos Santana later said he was on acid during his Woodstock performance, and the reason he looks a little harrassed is that his guitar kept turning into a snake, and he would have to change it back so he could go on playing. It's not certain whether he took the brown acid (which was initially given out free to musicians at the show) but perhaps this is one of the experiences that led announcers to warn people that the brown acid wasn't too good.
- Ekristheh, Halath, United States
Source
You can watch Carlos wrestle the snake here
Friday, April 4, 2008
Richie Havens Freedom Woodstock 1969
Freak Flag Friday,enjoy.
I got a telephone in my bosom
And I can call him up from my heart.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Overnight
Here is another documentary that I recommend, it's called Overnight and as usual it's a couple of years old. It documents the making of the movie The Boondock Saints. This documentary blows my mind every time I watch it, almost as much as Dig!
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