Last week I watched a little animated film called The Gap, with Ira
Glass talking about how to work through creative blocks. This is what he has to say to people who are starting out:
2. This is normal
3. Do a lot of work
4. Put yourself on a deadline
5. Fight your way through
In an effort to do a lot of work, put myself on a deadline and fight my way
through, I am trying to sketch every day. Precisely as Ira Glass says, my
work is not as good as I'd like, but as long as I can see that, there's hope. To reach
a happy point I must do volumes of work and push myself to finish something every week. One of
the reasons I started this blog is to give myself deadlines and, I promise you, I will do my best to meet them and post as much as I can.
Today my creative gap took me to Big Rock Ridge overlooking Lucas Valley, one of my favorite geological gaps. My resulting efforts aren't the greatest but at least I can see that. So I guess there's hope.
On the radio along the way, NPR's Terry Gross was interviewing filmmaker David O. Russell (American Hustle, Silver Linings Playbook.) Right as I stepped into the car he was talking about difficult setbacks he'd been through and he said: "If I'm going to come back from this, I'm going to do it from my heart."
Listen to Terry Gross on NPR: David O. Russell Interview
Watch David Shiyang Liu's version 1: Ira Glass on Storytelling
Watch Daniel Frohlocke's version 2: THE GAP by Ira Glass
On the radio along the way, NPR's Terry Gross was interviewing filmmaker David O. Russell (American Hustle, Silver Linings Playbook.) Right as I stepped into the car he was talking about difficult setbacks he'd been through and he said: "If I'm going to come back from this, I'm going to do it from my heart."
Listen to Terry Gross on NPR: David O. Russell Interview
Watch David Shiyang Liu's version 1: Ira Glass on Storytelling
Watch Daniel Frohlocke's version 2: THE GAP by Ira Glass
1 comment:
Straight form the mouth of the retired Head of the Art Department of the University of South Carolina: "I had a student years ago who was never able to produce anything good because she was so critical of every little piece she did. ...Absolutely do not criticize anything that you do. Do it, leave it be. Go back to it and have a look but do not stop yourself because of negative criticism." ....Boyd Saunders
...anyway, I like your sketches!
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