This random collection of prairie snapshots comes from a lot of driving between Alberta and Saskatchewan during my time in film school. It wasn't uncommon for me to make the trek back and forth for long weekends or holidays, and in that case a lot of these images really are snapshots as they were captured from the window of my Buick on the highway.
May 23, 2011
Prairie Snapshots
May 21, 2011
Snapshots Book Series
After publishing my first photo book with Blurb (for my 2009 road trip) I became hooked on the idea of sharing my photos in an original way. What I opted for was creating smaller soft cover books of three previous trips.
By creating a Polaroid template, I took a variety of my digital photos and created a uniform border for each image and page of my books. I really just wanted to highlight some of the memorable spots that made up each trip. I've since made several more in depth photo books for my 2010 trips to Singapore and California.
Click the links to view the books - LA 2004, Rushmore 2007, Vegas 2008
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May 18, 2011
Filmmakers Should Blog
In film school we were told to keep journals as a way to motivate our creativity. At the time it felt like a chore, because frankly, nothing ever feels that creative when you're being forced to do it. Pretty much as soon as I wasn't required to write out my random thoughts anymore I actually felt compelled to. Go figure.
I now see what everyone was on about though. Filmmakers should blog. Creative people should blog. If for no other reason than to indulge your own sense of achievement, blogging has provided me a way to work out my thoughts and frustrations. Sometimes it's simply a distraction, but often it gives me a forum to really think about the things I want to say and in turn, what I want those things to mean.
This is kind of huge if you allow yourself to get past your own self-consciousness and want to learn more about yourself. As a video editor I've always been keen to challenge my perception of the technical side of editing with the emotional side. If I were to try and learn this through my contract editing I might only scratch the surface or maybe never have the opportunity to work out that obscure idea in the back of my mind. Instead, random creations are fueled by my need to blog about something and it's those random creations that then give me something to analyze.
Blogging can then be more than just an exercise in futility, you can actually improve the way you think about things. Knowing that I'm posting things publicly actually helps in some sense, because even if no one reads what I post I feel that I'm being held to a standard outside of my own. When I'm writing an entry it's also one of the few times that I actually slow down to reflect on something that I've learned or something that inspired me.
Blogging can then be more than just an exercise in futility, you can actually improve the way you think about things. Knowing that I'm posting things publicly actually helps in some sense, because even if no one reads what I post I feel that I'm being held to a standard outside of my own. When I'm writing an entry it's also one of the few times that I actually slow down to reflect on something that I've learned or something that inspired me.
But yes, I still hated being forced to write those film journals.
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