When it works for me creativity feels like I’m remembering something that hasn’t happened yet.
GDSP #10 instruction
These are my instructions for the Guest Directed Self-Portait project number Ten:
Take a picture of yourself with an important thing.
You could tell us what the thing is, and why it is important to you.
You could tell us how it smells, feels, tastes, sounds, if these are applicable.
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You can see peoples responses to this prompt here.
Guest Directed Self-Portrait #04
“GDSP #4 is to consist of your reflection. your image can be reflected from whatever you wish: a mirror, puddle, glass, etc. when taking the photo, look at yourself in your reflection, not at the lens. if possible, do not let the camera be seen in the reflection. this photo can be taken any time of day and your environment can be whatever suits you. the picture can be of either your face or your body, whatever you think best works with the photo and the reflective piece. be creative and surprise me.”
— tanialee
Find out more about GDSP here, and see the other responses to this prompt here.
“URGENT SUBTLE CONCISE ROBUST” – Paintings (1987)
“I always felt that my work hadn’t much to do with art; my admirations for other art had very little room to show themselves in my work because I hoped that if I concentrated enough the intensity of scrutiny alone would force life into the pictures. I ignored the fact that art, after all, derives from art. Now I realize that this is the case.”
“He was a magician by profession.”
“When film is not a document, it is a dream. That is why Tarkovsky is the greatest of them all. He moves with such naturalness in the room of dreams. He doesn’t explain. What should he explain anyhow? He is a spectator, capable of staging his visions in the most unwieldy but, in a way, the most willing of media. All my life I have hammered on the doors of the rooms in which he moves so naturally. Only a few times have I managed to creep inside.”
— Ingmar Bergman
Gust Directed Self-Portrait #03
Author raises $1m to self-publish Order of the Stick webcomic book
“Unless you have the marketing department of a large corporation behind you, you’re not likely to get enough people to take a chance on your unknown property, even through Kickstarter,“ Burlew said. “On the other hand, if you give it away first, people will form their opinion of you and your work before you ask them for money. And readers are a lot more likely to spend money on things they know they like than things they hope they will like. People want to own what they love, so rather than selling access to the content, sell the permanent incarnation of it – be that a book or an ebook or a DVD or whatever. The best thing about giving away your content first is that when it comes time to sell the final product, you’re going to have almost 100% customer satisfaction. No one is going to complain that they didn’t like the story they bought, because every one of your customers knew they liked it before paying.”
From G. Mackenzie Bacon’s On the Writing of the Insane, with Illustrations (1870)
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Handwritten Manuscript for The Great Gatsby
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