“All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” – Pablo Picasso
Post written by Leo Babauta. Follow me on Twitter.
Sometimes I lounge lazily in bed, in the middle of the day, with a couple of my kids …

“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.” – Charles Mingus
Creativity is often made out to be a nebulous, messy, complicated, difficult thing, and it can be.
But it doesn’t have to be.
The judicious application of simplicity can help someone to create, whether that’s writing, …

This “photo” is a screen grab from a wedding day invite video I shot with the 5D Mark II.
No, I’m not talking about the 1993 Tony Scott-directed, Quentin Tarantino-penned movie by the same name. I’m talking …

A few months ago I saw this wicked trailer. It looked like it was possibly a documentary about a US occupation in a foreign country. The interviewees all had accents. The locale looked economically depressed. The people interviewed talked about all the money …

Editor’s note: This is a guest from Brad Pilon, blogger and author of Eat Stop Eat.
We can’t control the future. I wish we could, but we can’t. There are simply too many variables and uncontrolled factors at play. Even the best-laid plans are no …

Digital photography can be an intimidating hobby because once you get excited about it, you join photo-sharing sites and follow photography forums, and suddenly you’re inundated with lots of other photographer’s work, and *gulp*, a lot of it is better than yours!
It’s very easy to start to feel frustrated and …

Writing, writing everywhere
We all have aspirations of taking our work to “the next level”. How we define our “levels” of success is largely a personal matter. Here I am always happy to share my aspirations and goals with the larger community. It is likely no secret that as a blogger, …

In this post Jennifer Jacobs from iffles.com shares some tips on how to spark creativity in your photography.
Image by kk+
Let’s face it, no matter how much we take our camera out, there’s only so many pictures we …

There are hundreds if not thousands of photography books available and choosing one can be a daunting task. I asked around for some suggestions and even made some tweets to ask what other people thought and I came up with this list of …

So last week I had a blast at Skip’s Summer School. Tasra and I gave a presentation on the power of video and social media to extend your brand. We had a Keynote file of 50+ slides. …