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What do you do when you aren't being creative?
So, when you aren't taking pictures, having your picture taken or getting a model all made up, what do you do with your time? When I'm not taking pictures, I'm a full-time student. I'm actually older than the school that I attend. I've lectured to college students (on photojournalism), but I had never been to school until I quit my day job (without any clients). The plan was to go to school and develop a client base and slowly phase out school. The cool thing is, I have a 3.5 GPA and my client base is growing faster than I had expected. Are you filling your time constructively? Mar 09 06 05:48 pm Link I love to hang out about 60 ft below the waves with a suba pack on my back. Fish don't have bitchy attitudes, and the phone don't ring. Mar 09 06 05:54 pm Link Well, according to some of the comments I've received, I take pictures when I am not being creative.  Mar 09 06 05:55 pm Link As a model I spend a lot of my "off" time working out...I'm probably in the gym as much as I shoot... well I sleep more than anything and prior to modeling, I never went to a salon, now I'm there for manicures, pedicures, waxing, tweezing, threading, tinting, glazes, facials... Other stuff: - start law school this fall, which takes a lot of time (and money) getting into and getting prepared for - volunteer, spent 5 months in Louisiana between 2005 and 2006 with Hurricanes Katrina and Rita - and lately, taxes (CPA*) Mar 09 06 05:59 pm Link I try to be as accommodating as possible to all the divorced women between 32- 50 years old! Mar 09 06 06:00 pm Link What do you do when you aren't being creative? go into depression! Mar 09 06 06:04 pm Link I routinely quit for two-year periods to read, think, study and contemplate my navel before returning to the camera for a couple of years, then repeating the pattern. -Don Mar 09 06 06:13 pm Link D. Brian Nelson wrote: rough life there, don.... Mar 09 06 06:17 pm Link Sleeping or taking a dump! You should be creative every second of your life, if you are not, you are wasting away... Mar 09 06 06:19 pm Link Mikel Featherston wrote: Mikel, i think that's the funniest thing you've ever posted on here!!!! LOL Mar 09 06 06:19 pm Link Hamza wrote: Hey, my 'grunt sculptures' are a form of art, too! Mar 09 06 06:20 pm Link Hamza wrote: i used to tell people that i'm always playing music, it's just that sometimes i'm not holding my instrument for long periods of time... i suppose the same is true with photography... if i'm not on a shoot, i'm preparing for the next one, whether it's sleeping, eating, making love, looking at the wind blowing through the trees outside my window... i'm constantly taking things in that will inform my personal aesthetic and influence my next creative endeavor. Mar 09 06 06:25 pm Link Hmmmm... When I'm not modeling? Interior design. I've owned my own company for just over 2 years and have had the pleasure of working with some great corporations here in the States as well as in the Middle East. However if I'm not behind a desk or with clients, I'm on the road traveling :-) Mar 09 06 08:04 pm Link Drinking beer and lots of it and going to the gym, in that order! Mar 09 06 09:52 pm Link Listen to music and create more photoshoots in my head. Mar 09 06 09:54 pm Link consuming and viewing Mar 09 06 09:56 pm Link So what everyone seems to be saying is what I've been thinking for a while. If you are a successful artist, you are always doing things to invest in yourself. Mar 09 06 10:03 pm Link practicing james bonds lines so i can try and get some "holliday women" like "bond women" - but then again, thats being creative. so i guess i sit in front of a blank wall with no noise and stare. Mar 09 06 10:09 pm Link Sleep...and beer. If I could figure out how to do both at the same time it would mean a lot less down time. Mar 09 06 10:13 pm Link I'm never not being creative. I don't think I could live if I wasn't. When I'm not trying to become a model, I'm a full time art institute student. Working my ass off to become an animater. Mar 09 06 10:28 pm Link When I am not doing photography, I work on music as a hobby. My main job is substitute teaching at the high school level (currently) which has provided me with a couple of volunteer models olddly enough. High school kids love having their pictures taken I guess. I also work part time for the city at the arts center, I tutor, and I own my own business on the side. I like to try to keep busy ;-) Mar 09 06 10:32 pm Link Mar 09 06 10:34 pm Link Chris Hansen wrote: Mar 09 06 10:48 pm Link I take pics of my family, make collages...draw, write and hang out with friends. well have of that is being creative..lol..but I also like to read...im more of a homebody and spend as much time with people at home as I can. Mar 09 06 10:59 pm Link Second answer: I'm an aerospace engineer. That pays the bills and will eventually fund the retirement. But that's often creative. I'm a biker. That sucks some money, and it's creative too. And I'm a traveller, artist, bohemian (small "b"), windbag, blogger, (pseudo-)intellectual, avid reader and parent/brother/son. A few words cannot describe who anyone is, only some of the things they do. -Don Mar 09 06 11:06 pm Link I consider myself to be very creative. I write movies, am a photographer, graphics artist, product designer, apsiring actor, and an artist. Creativity is applied to every aspect of my life outside of those realms as well. How I interact with people, how I talk, how I live. But there are times when I'm not creating. A writer calls them 'blocks'. I used to get mad about them as they really were maddening. But I now realize that it is just part of the continuous process. No one can always be creative at every moment of every day. There are down times for every creative mind. But the down times are what get us to the next phase of our creativity. Although we are not outputting and maybe not even thinking about anything creative at all...our brains are ticking. They are pouring over things and sorting out blocks and formulating new ideas. Our minds are brilliant devices even when we aren't creating something concrete at the moment. The down times are just as important to an artist as the free-flowing output of creativity. Mar 09 06 11:18 pm Link |
