Photographer Amelia Morris’s unspoken one-liners, booming silence in image.

Few people so succinctly sum up visually what needs to reach me like my friend miss Amelia Morris, currently of Indianapolis. Catch her.

www.thanksandsorryphotos.com

From her project, “The One-Trick Pony and Other Concerns”

http://thanksandsorryphotos.com/portfolio%20one%20trick%20pony.html

 

“In art classes, Amelia Morris heard several individuals remark that when they are in need of subjects, they can always turn to self-portraits. Adopting this idea as her own personal philosophy, Amelia often incorporates an autobiographical slant to her work while still striving to express a universal experience.

That being said, she’s still trying to make sense of it all herself.”

Perpetual Summer Wyeth-esque Gif by SBL

My Advice

Internet treasures. This post updated over time.

Hours and hours of my life were dedicated to researching this madness. It is actually on my to-do list to research much less.

Here they are:

Evernote.com. Interface can be tinkered into any machine of organization. I stack notebooks to keep everything from novel chapters, research, to-do lists, family addresses, to pdfs of art show entry forms. I like: forward e-mails to your account. Free.

http://the99percent.com/tips/7093/Setting-the-Scene-for-a-Productive-Day

An article that in itself could be the basis for success. We are all visual and distracted artist-like people to some degree.

http://www.happiness-project.com/happiness_project/2010/12/10-tips-to-beat-clutterin-less-than-5-minutes.html

http://the99percent.com/ ”It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.” This really opened my mind to the nature of being creative, and how to geek it up and get it done instead of daydreaming about it endlessly.

Mint.com for finance.

Etsy.com, look for some intro videos for sellers. Great articles for anyone with art or a brand.

I tend to look up classes in catalogs, then look up textbook requirements for that class using their school bookstore site, then read the intro of that book preview on Amazon. Ha

Klok 2 free software download- punch in as a freelancer, monitor your down-time, work time, work-out log, sleep log, on and on.

Svpply.com, visual product feed with an interface I prefer over all others. Visual list-maker, great for inspiration.