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Writing Artist’s Statements
It’s important to learn how to make the visual verbal, by crafting artist’s statements. Many artists feel that images are better seen and not heard. I understand their point of view. But, face it,...
View ArticleJohn Paul Caponigro At TEDx Dirigo
My TEDx Dirigo talk from 10/10/10 is live. In You’re More Creative Than You Think You Are I show how you can create a synergy between skills you already have (writing, drawing, photography) to turbo...
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Making the Visual Verbal
Many take the view that pictures should be seen and not heard. I did. After being called to comment on my work time and time again, I realized that learning to comment on my work not only made my work...
View ArticleNurturing Creativity – Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses — and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person “being” a genius, all of us “have” a genius. It’s a...
View ArticleNeil Gaiman – Finding Your Life In Art
Neil Gaiman offers sage advice delivered with humility and humor to the graduating class of the University of Arts and us. Find more Creativity Videos here.
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How To Title Your Images
Neko Harbor, Antarctica, 2007 (Watch how focus and content shifts when these alternate titles are used – Freezing Point, Glacial Retreat, Blue, Constellation.) When in doubt, when selecting titles for...
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How I Title My Images
Illumination I, 2000 Titles have always been challenging for me. While I always use a working title for a developing series, often, I don’t know what to title the works until I truly understand them...
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State The Nature Of The Influence Simply
It helps you to both better understand and to more effectively communicate the nature of your influences if you take the time to state it simply. Usually, this doesn’t just happen instantly. First, it...
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New eBook – Process
How artists get there is just as important as where they arrive. My new ebook Process examines many aspects of my creative process – writing, drawing, painting, photography, Photoshop, iphoneography...
View ArticleMy 2 Talks On The Creative Process at TED & Google
My TED and Google talks have a lot in common. Both discuss creativity as a dynamic process that we all engage in with our own unique orientations to. While there are classic operations we all perform,...
View ArticleRay Bradbury On Creativity – 3 Videos
Host James Day speaks with Ray Bradbury about his career, the importance of fantasizing, his aspirations as a young child, his dislike of college for a writer, his idea of thinking compared to really...
View ArticleWhere Does Creativity Hide? – Amy Tan
Novelist Amy Tan digs deep into the creative process, journeying through her childhood and family history and into the worlds of physics and chance, looking for hints of where her own creativity comes...
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9 Great Books On Haiku Poetry
Looking for books on great haiku poetry? Here’s a list of books on haiku that I recommend. Six on writing and enjoying haiku. 1 Writing and Enjoying Haiku: A Hands-on Guide by Jane Reichhold 2...
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The Creative Fear List
You’re kidding yourself if you don’t think you have fears. Fear is useful. In certain situations, fear keeps us performing at our peak – it keeps us alive. But, if we let it go too far and panic, fear...
View ArticleWriter Alice Walker On Creativity
Writer Alice Walker (The Color Purple) eloquently discusses creativity. View The Essential Collection Of Creativity Videos here. Read The Essential Collection Of Creativity Quotes here. The post Writer...
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How To Write About Your Images
Writing an artist’s statement is something I initially resisted. For years I’d heard all of the excuses from many great artists, “Pictures should be seen and not heard.””If I could say with words what...
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Be Your Best Friend
Refraction LX A voice inside my head was grousing, “There’s nothing here. It’s not good enough. You’re not good enough. Someone else has done this before. You’ve done this before. You’re...
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Listen To Yourself
You can learn a lot just by listening to yourself. Listen not only to the words you actually say, usually to others, but also to the words you use in your inner dialog. When you speak about yourself,...
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Turn Your Inner Critic Into An Ally
Your inner critic can be a terrible adversary or a powerful ally. Which one it becomes depends on how you relate to and use it. Like any animal, proper care and feeding can work wonders while neglect...
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Talk With Yourself
We all want to be heard. When was the last time you wished you had someone to listen to you? When was the last time you listened to yourself? Talk to yourself. Don’t worry, it’s not crazy. We all do...
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