2018.10.18
Open Photo Gallery
outside british museum august 1995
math bridge at cambridge
british museum
with mom in scotlland
mom susan and uncle billy goats gruff
edinburgh cats
in edinburgh
uncle bill and aunt susan at edinburgh from above
family in uk
wales crazy port name
at stonehenge
scottish gargoyles
scottish gargoyles
scottish gargoyles
church gargoyles
cat art in edinburgh
gargoyles
cieda ocean grove nov 1995
by cieda ocean grove nov 1995
ocean grove pier and shore
boardwalk carousel house
old ferris wheel place near boardwalk
with jumbo ii
on wigglesworth
jen mono girl monty on bridge by fenway
family reunion at the simlers summer 1995
sunset over simlers family reunion 1995
anthony tony colindres
mom getting snes for christmas
aunt susan and her christmas loot from elisabeth
veronika and shadows on beach
veronika on jersey shore
veronika on rocky shore
with veronika at times square news year eve 1995-1996
rollover to 1996
other couple at times square 1995-1996
selfportrait in mirror at empire state building
blizzard of 1996 streetscene
veronika in living room of moms apartment
odd self portrait with veronika
veronika by wall near guggenheim
If you make things long enough, you will fail. That's important enough that I'm going to say it again, with emphasis. If you make things long enough, you will fail. The same thing that put you in the elevated place of being a creative artist in the first place will curdle or invert or fall on its face or on your face and you will be a person who made something that they should not have made. [...] David Bowie said something I really liked. I don't know if he said it often, but it's the kind of thing that you should get tattooed on your leg. He said that creativity is "one of the few human endeavors where you can crash your airplane and walk away from it."I think it's a good example of being aware of catastrophizing - an individual effort fails, it's so easy to see that as an array of dominos to other creative efforts, to our self-worth, maybe even our ability to make a living and thus ensure our own physical security. But those situations, those kinds of slippery slopes, aren't that common, and usually we can find some place to get traction - that is if the initial failure is even that big to begin with. Which it usually isn't - that's where the ability to cast a "So What" field comes in handy. This effort failed. So what? So I feel like I'm less good of a creator. So what?
Another quote from the book that I liked the sound of:
There was no such thing as distraction. There was only traction.