You are always going to get negative feedback. As you get more and more positive feedback, you get more and more negative feedback.
For example: this month I reduced my freelance photography rate from $50 per event to $20 per hour, … Continue reading
In life you can choose to grow your skills horizontally or vertically. Vertical growth involves specializing in a field while ignoring others. Horizontal growth involves gaining cursory experience in a wide range of fields while remaining an amateur in them … Continue reading
If you typed in my web address from a print I gave you at Daytona State College, make yourself known by leaving a comment here.
I’ve been giving out a lot of prints I had made in 2007 when it was … Continue reading
2009-12-20 Update: Don’t be a jerk toward others and take this article with a grain of salt as it has a lot of negativity in it.
It sucks when you fail hard. That sentence will get a lot of search traffic, … Continue reading
Looking back at a sunset on a busy road from a moving van. The road is Nova Road in Ormond Beach, Florida (could be county or Holly Hill, not sure). The colors really caught my eye. The setting is less … Continue reading
“Time is money,” the saying goes. You’re paid for your time with money, and you pay for the time of others with the money you’ve earned. Projects that don’t earn money aren’t worth your time, and projects that take too … Continue reading
Ashley says hello to a 17×11 print of Yellow Grasshopper. That was hard to carry around, but it was worth it so they could meet. She’s funny and cute. The grasshopper is too, but he’s more the serious type.
She … Continue reading
I’ve spent ten hours today and yesterday listing stuff on eBay and Craigslist to sell. Mostly new stuff, much of which I acquired many months ago from rebate grifting, and more recently, small items I purchased cheaply through an ink … Continue reading
A girl named Lyric, holding up a print of Fiery Hearts, which represents her heart. Don’t hurt her! She’s fragile like the glass in that picture frame.
I always try to get my models to look down with eyes up toward … Continue reading
The biggest challenge in personal development is not creating systems—it’s using them. You can know perfectly well that you need to quit your job, change religions, stop eating animals, and move to Mexico, but unless you take action, you’ll never … Continue reading