Tuesdays with Ian:
Maxims for Revolutionary Photographers
a Complimentary liveBooks Webinar

July 7th

5 PM Eastern
4 PM Central
3 PM Mountain
2 PM Pacific

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maxim |ˈmaksim|
noun
a short, pithy statement expressing a general truth or rule of conduct : the maxim that actions speak louder than words. ORIGIN late Middle English (denoting an axiom): from French maxime, from medieval Latin (propositio) maxima ‘largest or most important (proposition).’

pithy |ˈpiθē|
adjective ( pithier , pithiest )
(of language or style) concise and forcefully expressive.

revolutionary
adjective
1 rebellious, rebel, insurgent, rioting, mutinous, renegade, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, seditious, subversive, extremist.
2 a revolutionary kind of wheelchair new, novel, original, unusual, unconventional, unorthodox, newfangled, innovative, modern, state-of-the-art, cutting-edge, futuristic, pioneering.

How to use these Maxims. Take these questions and statements and extrapolate. Let them stir your soup. For example, if you were able to reinvent the concept of beauty, what would it look like? Some of these maxims appeared in Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s book: Poetry as Insurgent Art. I have adapted them for photographers and wrote a few of my own.

Ponder!

Creating is not a sedantary occupation. Stand up. Grab your camera, your sketchbook. Let them have it!

What music do people hear when looking at your artwork?

Reinvent the concept of beauty.

Stand up and rap out loud in front of a mirror or video camera.

Give the gift of sight to a blind world. Be an eye for the blind.

The sunshine of your artwork casts long shadows.

Make the invisible visible.

Like a field of sunflowers, artwork should not have to be explained.

Haunt independent bookstores.

Allow yourself dazzling flight — flights of outrageous imagination.

Make art without an attachment to an outcome.

Be a songbird; not a parrot.

If there is nothing to shoot, shoot it.

Make a photograph of common household objects. While you are at it, clean the cabinet under the kitchen sink.

Spend a day making art only in your mind’s eye. Shutterless pictures stored in the work flow of your brain.

What if the greatest magazines are from outer space. What if you were filing photographs to some supreme photo editor who wants to understand Earthlings and has a low tolerance for bullshit.

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I have been a subscriber to The Daily Dose for about a month.

There is always something included to hold my interest and to help keep me current.

You may recall my Heartstorming articles about  graphic novels or Zak Smith’s fully illustrated version of Gravity’s Rainbow.

The following is an excerpt from this morning’s Daily Dose.

The Daily Dose

Presented by Flavorpill

Flavorpill’s Daily Dose is a jolt of cultural inspiration, delivered fresh to your inbox every weekday morning to help jump-start your day.

Our mission is simple: to provide a quick look at what’s new in music, print, art, film, and online,

by offering worthwhile culture to explore right from your screen.

Britten & Brülightly

Painting each page of a graphic-novel noir

Hannah Berry’s debut graphic novel, Britten & Brülightly is enough

to turn any residual comic-phobes into aficionados of the medium.

It’s existentialist noir. The story of world-weary private investigator Fernández Britten

and his unconventional partner Brülightly

has the philosophical wit of Bill Watterson and the whodunit chops of Raymond Chandler.

Berry strikes a pitch-perfect tone. When Britten is hired by Charlotte Moughton, the beautiful fiancée of an apparent suicide victim

, the detective is thrust into a comically sinister world of murder and revenge.

Set in a perpetually rain-soaked quasi-London, the dark and often grotesque characters are stylized to fit the story’s coy-yet-macabre tone.

The artwork was painstakingly painted. Berry, a graduate of Brighton University’s illustration program,

spent more than two years hand-painting each panel of the story.

Read a recent interview with Berry, check out The Oregonian’s review with sample illustrations, and buy the book.

– Chelsea Bauch

If you want cultural events, head over to Flavorpill.

For an up-to-the-minute culture fix, check out Flavorwire.

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APA|NY Presents
Ian Summers

What if Everything You Have Been Taught About the
Marketing of Creativity is Wrong?

Tuesday, February 24th
6-9 PM
Calumet Photographics
22 West 22nd Street, NYC

Not the Twenty Minutes I’ll Tell You What to Do Portfolio Review

Spend an Hour with Me on February 25th

One Hour Appointments Beginning at 10 AM

APA|NY Offices, 27 W 20th Street, Suite 601, New York NY

$200.00 Payable by Credit Card

Call or Write Ian Directly to Register

iansummers@heartstorming.com

610-438-5707

This is not the Twenty Minute — I’ll tell you what do — rushed portfolio review. Instead, each participant will receive a full hour of Ian’s time. He feels that it is more effective when there is at least a half hour of questions and answers to build a context for what a photographer will show him. As a result of the time allotted for each session, only six portfolio reviews will be possible. So sign up as far in advance as you can. Bring your portfolio. Send Ian your URL so that he can look at it in advance of the meeting. And if you have work that is not in the portfolio or on the website bring it with you. Once your appointment is made Ian will call for a brief interview and tell you how to prepare for this session.

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