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I hadn’t consulted with courses or books about posing your subject, though I had apprenticed with an exceptional commercial photo-illustrator.
There’s a tremendous on-line resource for learning about photography, video, running your own business, and more at Creative Live.
For the actual days of the workshop is given, viewing is free. During the workshop the course is for sale at a discounted price.
From December 27 to 31st, Creative Live is replaying highlights from their courses!
Enjoy!
With this app you’re drawing and making music at the same time!
Can’t believe it’s only $1.99 to download.
Created by Uwe Oestermeier, you can visit his website for more info.
He knows how to tell a story that can change your life.
“It’s never too late to have a happy childhood,” Dyer blogs about it today, December 5th, 2012.
That quote makes me smile.
If you’ve never heard of Wayne Dyer you can find out more about him by clicking here.
On Dyer’s “Wishes Fulfilled” on PBS, he talks about how he writes books.
First he comes up with the title. He says that is THE most important thing.
Second he has a cover drawn up.
Third he puts the finished cover somewhere he can look at it while writing the contents.
Fourth, he stays focused and guards his writing time, calling it “sacred time.”
Do you dream of writing a book?
If so, there’s never been more opportunities than now to share your words with the world!
Do you thrive on variety and diverse systems?
In other words, are you a “diversitarian?”
I heard the term used by Jeff Bezos, Founder of Amazon, when Charlie Rose interviewed him recently when he asked Bezos how he would identify himself.
Bezos also said brainstorming is his favorite activity! And that he loves being at the white board working out ideas!
I resonated with those two things Bezos revealed about himself and his delight for ideas.
New York Times bestselling author Barbara Sher calls multi-resourceful folk “scanners,” in her highly useful book “Refuse to Choose! A Revolutionary Program for Doing Everything That You Love,” Rodale Books, 2006.
Along those same lines, I found Emilie Wapnick’s site that deals with modern-day Renaissance-types at Puttylike. Wapnick wrote Renaissance Business. She provides lifestyle design for what she terms “multipotentialities” and specializes in “how to smoosh your interests together and set yourself apart.”
Wapnick helps point the way for multipotentialites in a recent post: “Help! I Want to Combine My Interests Into One Business, Where Should I Start?.”
Happy smooshing!