offcuts

Month

February 2012

28 posts

“The truth is that an artist’s appraisal of his own work, in terms of how much better some stuff is than other stuff, is probably completely meaningless. If you grab a random person off the street and hold up two things and say this is my good shit and this is my bad shit, he probably won’t know what the fuck you’re talking about. 9 out of 10 people will probably say it’s the same exact shit.

This is why worrying too much about the quality of what you do is kind of ridiculous, and worrying about it is what leads to blocks. In the end what you make is the result of your capabilities and your effort, and practically nothing else. So you might as well stop worrying, drop the bullshit, and just make it.”
—Andrew Hussie (via argent-geist)
Feb 25, 20122,891 notes
#quotes #Andrew Hussie #be less precise
“It’s your work that matters; you haven’t got to bother what people think. You’ve just got to concentrate on your work and not be distracted, if you’ve got good work then you’ll get recognised sooner or later, you just will, but you have to have strength in your own convictions.” —Richard Billingham (via dwbrewster)
Feb 25, 201217 notes
#quotes #Richard Billingham
Feb 25, 20123 notes
#Gerard Fieret #stop-smoking presents #photos I took
“He doesn’t care about what the mainstream wants, he makes music for himself, and so far it has worked perfectly.” —Mr. Oizo: Anything But a One-Hit Wonder
Feb 23, 201210 notes
#Mr Oizo #quotes #be less precise
“There are billions of photographs online…, and the question often becomes how one can have any faith in one’s photographs if there are so many others already out there…. For me, the answer has always been very simple. It comes in the form of a question: What does it matter if other people take photographs? What do other people’s photographs have to do with your own photographs?” —Jörg Colberg (via camerasimplex)
Feb 23, 201229 notes
#quotes #Jörg Colberg
“It’s time to realize that social-networking sites come with only one guarantee: You’re going to spend a lot of time on them—time that you could have spent on your own photography.” —Jörg Colberg (via Nina Perlman)
Feb 21, 201213 notes
#quotes #Jörg Colberg
Feb 20, 201220 notes
#Gerard Fieret #photobooks #photos I took #stop-smoking presents #Rens Horn
“The next step would be to put the print up on the viewing board for 1–3 days and look at it. Sooner or later, I would know how I felt about it, and then I’d know what I wanted to do with it… whether I wanted to take it further, or dial it back, or change something, or leave it as-is, whatever. Not till that point would I go make the final version.

To me, that interval is a critically important stage of making a fine print. A little time going by does wonders to clarify your mind. Call it eyeball time. The looking is what does the work.”
—Mike Johnston
Feb 20, 20126 notes
#quotes #mike johnston
Feb 19, 201215 notes
#Mordechai Vanunu #Israeli #nuclear #weapons #black and white

I have been thinking lately about how certain visual effects caused by the technology of photography cause associations in peoples’ minds when they look at photographs. Not photographers’ minds; everybody’s. Take tilt-shift. The closer you focus, the less depth of focus you have, so photographs of small things tend to have large areas that are out-of-focus. Now flip that on it’s head, take a normal, everyday photograph and make large areas of it out of focus. Suddenly it looks like a model. To everybody. Why does it look like a model to non-photographers?

Feb 19, 20123 notes
“Synesthesia is the way to go.” —Artemis Günebakanlı
Feb 17, 20125 notes
#quotes #Artemis Günebakanlı
Feb 17, 201250 notes
#featured
HELLO NEW FOLLOWERS

→ Please follow jimfranks ←

because that’s where I post the photographs I take.

Feb 16, 2012
Feb 16, 201229 notes
#leica #leica year #photos i took #what's in my bag? #helsinki bus station theory
“Does it though? The retort to fit virtually every artist statement.” —Colin Pantall
Feb 16, 20122 notes
#quotes #Colin Pantall
“Photography for me isn’t anything more than a way to go through life.” —John Sypal
Feb 14, 20127 notes
#quotes #john sypal
The Helsinki Bus Station Theory → fotocommunity.com
Feb 14, 20128 notes
#helsinki bus station theory
“I don’t want to think about technique, because technique blocks your mind.” —Tomasz Lazar
Feb 12, 201213 notes
#quotes #Tomasz Lazar #be less precise
Feb 11, 201212 notes
#darkroom #photos i took

I did lose the last frame on my bulk-loaded roll :(

Feb 7, 20123 notes
#darkroom #bulk loading
Next page →
2012 2013
  • January 11
  • February 4
  • March
  • April 1
  • May
  • June
  • July
  • August
  • September
  • October
  • November
  • December
2011 2012 2013
  • January 20
  • February 28
  • March 3
  • April
  • May
  • June
  • July
  • August
  • September
  • October 2
  • November 8
  • December 14
2010 2011 2012
  • January 37
  • February 34
  • March 19
  • April 38
  • May 33
  • June 51
  • July 11
  • August 8
  • September 10
  • October 6
  • November 8
  • December 3
2010 2011
  • January
  • February
  • March
  • April
  • May
  • June
  • July
  • August
  • September
  • October
  • November
  • December 33