Hi there. Hmm, it seems like a few of you could use a little pick-me-up.
Here ya go!
Author/guerilla artist, Keri Smith offers up this FREE, brilliant, little kit, sure to brighten your day or at least make your crack a smile.
For the really bad days, for the days when you want to quit, when you feel like everything you do is shit, when you feel your self-esteem plummet, when you decide that you would rather wait tables for a living, when you start to think you will never make a living making art, when you are working on something and feel like you hate it more than you’ve ever hated anything in your life, when someone makes an offhand remark about your work and afterwards you feel dejected, when you wish you had gone to school for accounting, when you start to believe that maybe your family was right, when you want to lie in bed for a month and eat chips.
– Keri Smith
If you haven’t already gone out & participated in the post it note project, there’s still time! Before today ends, draw on a post it, stick it some where, photograph it, & email it to redtinsel@gmail.com. Easy peasy!
Fiona Harding created a project called 100 Post Its in Japan while living in Japan. Now she’s spreading the love & joy by inviting everyone to participate in a global Post-It Note Project.
Un-freakin’-believable… and there was a pair of ‘em! Both sides of a mold made specifically to crank out weensy little StarGates about 9″ across. Personally, I’d always thought Richard Dean Anderson was taller than that, but whatever…
That is crazy awesome! To stumble into a junkyard and find THE Stargate!
Aside from the whole Stargate aspect, I found this really interesting:
If you embrace the philosophy of improvisational fabrication , a scrapyard is the best possible place to fritter away an afternoon looking for…whatever. ‘Whatever’ can manifest itself in unexpected ways, provided you a) pay attention, b) avoid over-focusing and c) recognize opportunities.
What if we applied this philosophy to film-making? Yesterday, I posted about how I was just too focused. If we looked around and paid attention to opportunities that arise, we could make some truly amazing films. Not just noticing shots, but also noticing characters, scenes, snippets of dialogue, or entire stories.
And sometimes, we’ll stumble on something wonderful, like a Stargate!
