Posts Tagged ‘creativity’

I've neglected this place a little since my epic write-up of my epic meal at the Fat Duck. Which is a bit of a shame, as I did some equally noteworthy and interesting things last week.

I'm not really a fan of Annie Leibovitz's photos (I don't always like the way they're lit, and find that they tend to lack a certain spontaneity), but I like this quote from her: "The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so [...]

Hydragenic | A Can Of Worms – "I have a whole folder on my computer full of opened cans of words that dried up because I didn't use them quickly enough." Yep, I know just what he means.

In the few years since I first met her, Jill has taken great strides with her own creative life, garnering a significant collection of work, and becoming heavily involved in the running of a local gallery, Vox, in her home town of Sacramento. I'm delighted she agreed to be interviewed because, I find her attitude very inspiring, and I hope you do, too.

Sarah McIntyre – sad day for the DFC – Random House puts the DFC up for sale. This *is* sad (though not *entirely* unexpected, I must admit, even without the recession, just because of the way the market was anyway). But it'll be a greater pity if the enthusiasm and creativity it inspired takes a [...]

Fantastic Journal: Books and Architecture – I pretty much wanted to quote this entire post, so I figure I might as well just link to it. I especially like the paragraph about circuits of influence, and the reminder that if you look beyond those, your work won't look exactly the same as everyone else's.

Army of Morphs remember Tony Hart – Awwwww! Sad I missed this. But there's a great set of photos here: http://flickr.com/photos/krypto/sets/72157614679648708 Maybe it can become an annual event. That would be neat!

This is the second part of the interview; read the first part here.

Last year I mentioned that I intended to interview some of the clever creative people that I know. Here is the second of those interviews, with photographer Jon Cartwright, aka Jonny2005. I got to know Jon through mutual drinking buddies a few years ago. We'd occasionally see each other at the same social events, but it wasn't until we discovered we were both avid users of Flickr that we really became friends. Since then, looking at his street photography and painterly compositions has helped to rekindle my interest in parts of London that had previously seemed clichéd and boring.

Although Jon agreed to be interviewed because it sounded "like a laugh", our correspondence became a fascinating discourse on being bitten by the creative bug, as he made some very interesting and intelligent points about the craft of photography, with each point made inspiring further questions and considerations, many of which were in directions I hadn't even considered. In fact, Jon's answers were so detailed and inspired so many supplemental questions that I've had to split the interview into two parts — and stop asking more questions, or the interview would probably never even have made it this far, even though I could happily have continued the conversation for a while. I'm interested to know what you think about it, as well, so please do leave comments if you have anything to say.

As you can probably tell from these extensive notes, I had fantastically interesting day on Saturday, learning about new projects, thinking in new ways, and making new friends, and spending all of Sunday thinking about them and writing about them. As Matt Ward said in his summation of PaperCamp, it was a fantastic convergence of [...]