Dean Bradshaw

The Heart of Coppola

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:14:02 -0400

The Heart of Coppola

Make it simple, but significant - Don Draper

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:23:18 -0400

Make it simple, but significant - Don Draper

“We’re not good at everything, we’re not good...

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 21:15:55 -0400

“We’re not good at everything, we’re not good by ourselves,” says Simon Sinek at the 99% Conference. Our ability to build trust and relationships is the key to our survival as a race, and to thriving as ideamakers.

National Geographic Channel: Outliers by Dean Bradshaw

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:48:44 -0400

National Geographic Channel: Outliers by Dean Bradshaw

Video

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 18:20:00 -0400

African Queen - Dean Bradshaw

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 20:42:05 -0400

African Queen - Dean Bradshaw

Navajo - Dean Bradshaw

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 19:47:26 -0400

Navajo - Dean Bradshaw

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 19:44:00 -0400

Navajo - Dean Bradshaw

Photo

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:48:46 -0400

The world is prettier before sunrise. #navajoreservation (Taken...

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:34:14 -0400

The world is prettier before sunrise. #navajoreservation (Taken with Instagram)

"The easiest way to sell yourself short is to compare your work to the competition. To say that you..."

Sun, 10 Jun 2012 18:23:16 -0400

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The easiest way to sell yourself short is to compare your work to the competition. To say that you are 5% cheaper or have one or two features that stand out—this is a formula for slightly better mediocrity.

The goal ought to be to compare yourself not to the best your peers or the competition has managed to get through a committee or down on paper, but to an unattainable, magical unicorn.

Compared to that, how are you doing?

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- Seth Godin

What’s stopping you. (Taken with instagram)

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:09:42 -0400

What’s stopping you. (Taken with instagram)

Sage words.

Fri, 25 May 2012 18:24:38 -0400

Sage words.

If you’re a creative, you HAVE to watch this speech. Up...

Tue, 22 May 2012 15:53:07 -0400

If you’re a creative, you HAVE to watch this speech. Up there with Steve Jobs’ famous Stanford address.

On copywriting by David Ogilvy

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:06:26 -0400

On copywriting by David Ogilvy

Nothing worth having comes easy…

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:32:23 -0500

Nothing worth having comes easy…

No regrets. Just love.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:23:44 -0500

No regrets. Just love.

Why taking risks is a good thing - Francis Ford Coppola

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:01:45 -0500

Why taking risks is a good thing - Francis Ford Coppola

"The thing that interests me about photography and why it’s different from all other media, is..."

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:04:00 -0500

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The thing that interests me about photography and why it’s different from all other media, is that it’s the only medium in which there is even the possibility of an accidental masterpiece. You cannot make an accidental masterpiece if you’re a painter or a sculptor. It’s just not going to happen. Something will be wrong.

This is simultaneously photography’s great advantage and its Achilles’ heel: it is the easiest medium in which to be competent. Anybody can be a marginally capable photographer, but it takes a lot of work to learn to become even a competent painter. Now, having said that, I think while photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is probably the hardest one in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal vision. It’s the hardest medium in which to separate yourself from all those other people who are doing reasonably good stuff and to find a personal voice, your own vision, and to make something that is truly, memorably yours and not someone else’s. A recognized signature style of photography is an incredibly difficult thing to achieve.

It always amazes me that just when I think that there’s nothing left to do in photography and that all permutations and possibilities have been exhausted, someone comes along and puts the medium to a new use, and makes it his or her own, yanks it out of this kind of amateur status, and makes it as profound and moving and as formally interesting as any other medium. It’s like pushing something heavy uphill. Photography’s not an easy medium. It is, finally, perhaps the hardest of them all.

- Chuck Close

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- I’m currently writing a little bit about my ‘style’ of photography for a certain photography magazine - and about how I developed it. It is such a difficult thing to write about (besides the fact that I’m no writer) - but on this topic I always think of what Chuck Close has to say about personal vision in photography…

Ever wondered how some of the top creative minds think? Here’s...

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:24:00 -0500

Ever wondered how some of the top creative minds think? Here’s an interesting insight- this video features Eric Kallman and Craig Allen of Wieden+Kennedy, the creative rockstars beind the recently infamous Old Spice campaign…