My Creative Business
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Creating a learning log is a great way to create, experiment, collate ongoing research, document inspiration points, test samples, promote active thought and deal with creative mind block. Students are encouraged to do it and, I believe, those in creative businesses could gain a great deal from it. Open College of the Arts shares a learning log created by one of their students undertaking a textile course. It brings much clarity to the process and gives one a new way of looking at all the inspirational material around and within us.
A peek into an artist’s process by Kim Welling. It makes for a enlightening study, when done personally or to share. What is your process like?
Interesting and enlightening bits on what one can shoot or cannot. Just skims the subject but leaves enough for one to do their own digging later.
Twitter Q&A with cartoonist Kate Beaton -
Q: “How do I learn to get better at drawing?”
A: “You do this by drawing, drawing, drawing, drawing, drawing. You don’t need a special pen or paper, you don’t need a desk by a window overlooking a pastoral scene, you don’t even need to take classes, you just draw draw draw draw draw every day until you’re amazing at it.”
A method of learning that works for most things - practice, discover. Repeat.
"Life flows easefully when we speak with impeccable honesty.
Life flows easefully when we keep our promises impeccably.
- Gay Hendricks
In other words, say what you mean and do what you say, as I read in a book once. Works perfectly for creative businesses.
"Trust and Excuses in your creative business. Bernadette makes a valid point. Action vs Intention. “What the person on the other end of that excuse really needs to know is that you’ll be there for them. Like you said you would.” Click through.
Pinterest has changed and updated its terms of service. :)
Their newsletter states:
1. Our original Terms stated that by posting content to Pinterest you grant Pinterest the right for to sell your content. Selling content was never our intention and we removed this from our updated Terms.
2. We updated our Acceptable Use Policy and we will not allow pins that explicitly encourage self-harm or self-abuse.
We released simpler tools for anyone to report alleged copyright or trademark infringements.
3. Finally, we added language that will pave the way for new features such as a Pinterest API and Private Pinboards.
Free online Digital Photography workshop on Creative Live - April 9th. Sign up now to be part of it.
How to quit your day job - Hoakonhelga - featured seller at Etsy - A lot of lessons in this interview.
For those of you in creative businesses where you make products and would like celebrities to endorse/wear them, Gwyneth Paltrow shares how her stylist put together her look for the Oscars. In this case, your customer would be the stylist, not necc the celebrity. Click through.
