Neil November 26th, 2010
‘The Way to Love’ by Anthony de Mello
If you allow yourself to really feel the pains of this hell on earth, the utter emptiness it brings, you might experience within you a revolt,
a disgust so powerful that it will shatter the chains of dependence
and the deceit that have been forged around your soul and you will break loose into the kingdom of innocence where mystics and children dwell.
(that is why I say ‘hear the shadows’)
Neil October 12th, 2010
“In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.”
— Malcolm Gladwell (Outliers)
I just wrapped up my P90X Core Synergistics workout.
And heavy breathing aside.
It brings me to thoughts of discipline, as the core workout for the creative indivisual.
How’d I make that big leap? I dunno, I think it’s my creative intuition telling me so, maybe I’ll be able to explain it after a shower.
The P90X graduates are all people who took control of their lives for 90 days straight and said, “I am going to do this. I will not back down, and I will not give up. I will stay focused on my goal of making it to day 90, and I will not allow myself to be distracted in any way from reaching my goal.”
Hmmm…that sounds a bit like the recipe for success in any endeavor, doesn’t it? The P90X grads, however, have an edge that most people don’t: They know that the system works.
They know that by staying disciplined and on track, that the results will be there. It isn’t hearsay to them, it isn’t a rumor, it isn’t some vague bit of personal development advice – it is a fact.
Someone today after looking at my website said “How do you get such amazing colors?”
And I’m afraid the answer is in my current life situation. I am traveling on a commercial photo assignment photographing a new hotel each day. For 7 days straight. I’ll take a few days off and do it again. I compose, light and make a final image for 7-12 rooms a day. ”Neil, how to do you get so good at lighting?”
Such amazing color and tonality is the pinnacle of composition, then lighting, then processing.
This just popped up in my twitter stream:
“Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That’s it. And what’s more, the people at the very top don’t work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.”
— Malcolm Gladwell (Outliers)
“In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.”
— Malcolm Gladwell (Outliers)
“Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing that makes you good.”
— Malcolm Gladwell (Outliers)
Want to be better at lighting? Then stop reading this…and shoot a 10 rooms a day until you get to 10,000 hours.
Neil August 25th, 2010
The Way bears sensation,
Sensation bears memory,
Sensation and memory bear abstraction,
And abstraction bears all the world;
Each thing in the world bears feeling and doing,
And, imbued with mind, harmony with the Way.
As others have taught, so do I teach,
“Who loses harmony opposes nature”;
This is the root of my teaching.
Neil April 20th, 2010
Job 22 – New International Version – BibleGateway.com
26 Surely then you will find delight in the Almighty
and will lift up your face to God.
27 You will pray to him, and he will hear you,
and you will fulfill your vows.
28 What you decide on will be done,
and light will shine on your ways.
29 When men are brought low and you say, ‘Lift them up!’
then he will save the downcast.
The Book of Job in the Hebrew Bible is considered the oldest book of the bible. A very complex literary work dealing with the problem of evil.
I am being taught that light shines on the good way!
Neil December 30th, 2009
“Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth –
that the moment one definately commits oneself, then, Providence moves, too.”
–Van Goethe
(thanks to Amy Deputy for the card)
Neil June 4th, 2009
“The artist’s language is a sensual one, a language of felt experience. When we work at our art, we dip into the well of our experience and scoop our images. Because we do this, we need to learn how to put images back.”
Neil June 1st, 2009
“Stop telling yourself that creativity is a luxury and that you should be greatful for what you’ve got.”
“Creativity is a fact of your spiritual body and nothing that you must invent.”
The Artist’s Way - Julia Cameron
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Neil April 2nd, 2009
“Have faith in the photograph you want to make…
…and wait for it.”
- Ben Chrisman
Neil March 6th, 2009
“Throughout our lives each of us discovers more and more deeply our unique sealed orders, a way that only we are gifted to give and receive love.
When I am in touch with the special purpose of my life and carrying out my sealed orders, I have a profound feeling of consolation or rightness and my whole body relaxes. I believe this sense of rightness expresses itself physiologically because the purpose of our life is built into the very cells of our body.
I have noticed this sense of rightness whenever I am in touch with our learning about the inner goodness of created things. Loooking back, I realize that this has guided all my major decisions in life.”
Moments of desolation are equally instructive.
Sleeping with Bread - Dennis Linn
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