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Good Advice

““Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.””

— Ira Glass

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two shapes

IF THIS / THEN THAT

I think this is true.

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Otherwise you may be out of luck

Great work!

jessicaeaton:

Opening Thursday! @ Higher Pictures. I’ll be in attendance, come say hi if you can.

Cubes for Albers and LeWitt

November 3 – December 17, 2011

Opening: Thursday, November 3, 6 - 8 pm

Higher Pictures presents Cubes for Albers and LeWitt the first solo New York exhibition by Jessica Eaton.

Jessica Eaton creates art in consideration of what Joseph Albers called the “discrepancy between physical fact and psychic effect”. Eaton’s instruments for seeing are a negotiation of perceivable reality and how photography works in order to expand the potential of a constructed photograph. The work produces an effect where a steady gaze becomes a steady haze.

”The series Cubes for Albers and LeWitt explores the possibilities of manipulating time, space perception and, in particular, the additive system of color. The images are constructed on sheets of 4 x 5 film. The subject is in reality monochromatic. The photographs use a set of cubes and ground options painted white, two tones of grey, and black. Through multiple exposures, the color hues in each image have been made by exposing the film to additive primaries of red, green and blue. The reflective value of the cubes controls the value of lightness of that hue, and the black is utilized as a type of reflective mask, keeping potential on the film for other exposures. The images are completely photographic yet not visible to the naked eye.” -Jessica Eaton

Jessica Eaton (b. 1977, lives in Montreal) holds a BFA in photography from the Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver. Since graduating in 2006 Eaton has exhibited regularly in group and solo shows in Canada and the United States. Her photographs have been published in numerous publications including Wallpaper; Foam; Hunter and Cook; BlackFlash; Color; Pyramid Power and Lay Flat 02: Meta among others. Artnews reproduced Eaton’s “cfaal (mb RGB) 18, 2010” on the cover of March 2011 to accompany the article, The New Photography.

jillsies:

Jason Schwartzman Celebrates John Baldessari (by pacificstandardtime)

This is awesome

desk work

Bits

Photographing small triangles and other shapes at the studio today.

Cutting & pasting at the studio

tripod sculptures, Rome, 2011

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