follow up on Are you creative
October 31, 2011
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With Rifqui’s comment (thank you kindly for bringing it up) on mind, maybe there are a plentitude of possible definitions of ‘creativity’. Is it about ‘what’ is creativity? Or a matter of degree; some people are more creative than others. If so, what is the measure of ‘more’ or ‘less’? Maybe it is concerning ourselves with a result that conforms to...
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Are you creative?
October 27, 2011
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Chances are you heard it many times from many people: the ‘oh no - I’m not good at drawing/painting/crafts/music … I’m not really a creative type …’
Well, sorry to burst your bubbly perception, (actually, not really sorry at all), but anyone can draw, anyone can paint, and anyone can make photographs. It requires no special skills to put paint on...
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Knowing
October 12, 2011
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12 october 2011
following up on previous post from 10 october
So there, we like to label things. When first perceiving something new, our brain instantly asks ‘what’s that?’ and we just as instantly try to answer with a name of the thing. Naming and labeling helps us categorize, feel familiar with, make sense of the multitude of things and stimul...
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Looking or Seeing Images
October 10, 2011
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10 October 2011
Image and Message
There are various approaches to assessing the merits of a photograph. One can look for technical aspects, such as lighting and exposure, shutter speed chosen, sharpness versus blurriness, tonalities. Then there are artistic choices such as composition and framing, use of colour and monochrome, in printing the cho...
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to look or to see
September 13, 2011
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It is commonly known that, in most circumstances, people look at an image for only about 2 seconds and then wander on to the next, for another 2 seconds, and so on. I, too, can find myself rushing through image galleries when browsing the works of other artists on the net. There is just so much!
Considering the time, money, thought, and possibly l...
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