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I personally liked your entry, "The Little Things". How did you come up with this concept?
My "The Little Things" photo project was born from simple origins. I was watching current TV one day and saw a segment about Nick Harmer's (of Death Cab for Cutie) infatuation with tilt-shift photography. I was inspired, saw how he did it, and realized that I had a whole slew of images that would work nicely with the effect. A few weeks later "The Little Things" was born. It was a fun, lighthearted project to do and to my surprise I have gotten a lot of positive feedback.
How do you come up with a concept and what tools do you use to materialize your concepts?
Most times, the way I come up with a concept will start on paper. I'll mind map key words, look them up in the dictionary, look up synonyms in the thesaurus, look THOSE words up in the dictionary, identify which words are iconic, indexical, and symbolic, and basically formulate lists. From there you begin to get a firm grasp of the problem(s) you are trying to solve. Once I can clearly write out a concept in a small paragraph, almost like a hypothesis, I'll search for inspiration (hopefully not for too long) and gather it all in one place so I can quickly refer to it. Execution follows thereafter. If the execution is a struggle, I revisit the listing process all over again.
Do you have any projects that keep you busy right now?
I have a number of projects that I am working on right now, most notably is another Visual Mixtape poster series. I have also begun to learn digital painting a bit more in Photoshop, now that I have a system that can handle a large enough canvas size to performance ratio.
Any word of advice or message for our readers?
Your personal style will be born from a large body of work so stay engaged in creative projects that you are interested in and don't wait for them to come to you. Also, you should learn how to function with no sleep.
