Tag: choices

Painting at night

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There are many choices in life and there are no right or wrong answers, as apart from when it hurts others, the choices we make and what that outcome looks like to us, is all that matters.

We often think far too much about what are going to do or not. Whether to create something or not. Whether to share something with others, or to leave it uncreated.

Last night at midnight, we drove up a track to a view point in the middle of nowhere in Fuerteventura Spain, and we choose to create different effects night painting using luminous juggling balls and long exposure photography.

The results were amazing, and when it was my turn, I decided to create a happy face, to reflect upon one of the best choices I’ve made in a long time, to come to this coworking camp in Fuerteventura organised by Copass.

Often in my life I have said ‘I’ll do that next time, when I’m less busy’ or some other excuse, as ‘less busy’ is an excuse and it never happens.

Choose night painting, choose happiness and share your creations.

Don’t queue to be an ‘Atmospherian’

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I was listening to a podcast from 99%Invisible, Roman Mars, all about film extras, and the now world famous Central Casting in Burbank California. The story behind how Central Casting came to be is fascinating and it was born out of the exploitation of mainly women by the Hollywood film industry.

Extras were referred to as ‘atmospherians’, which I thought was a wonderfully descriptive phrase for people who are the mute crowd in films.

It’s interesting that these people will literally queue all night and through the day just get a chance to register with Central Casting, that’s not to get a job as an ‘atmospherian’, that’s simply to get a chance of getting on the database.

There are two points here:

1. The words we use are important, if you want to stand out don’t use the normal, mainstream and unremarkable, use words like ‘atmospherians’ or even better create your own unique words that are rich and descriptive.

2. Don’t queue all your life to get chosen by others. Choose yourself, bypass the heartache of waiting for others to notice you. Bypass the process of queueing day after day hoping to get on a database. Create your own stuff, make yourself the lead role not the extra.

You can become a ‘creatorian’.