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What Is Right, What Works And What Matters
image: dan james After a recent post on my daily yoga practice, a friend and fellow yogi wrote explaining how their practice was different. They said that for them the breathing was key, and when...
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How To Be An Artist (In Twelve Words)
image: dan james 1. Show up. 2. Be curious. 3. Seek beauty. 4. Explore the edges. 5. Acknowledge progression. 6. Share. Anything to add? Pop over to our community and let us know. Thank you for...
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What Changes, What Remains
image: dan james Major changes in our lives force us to assess what’s most important. Greater commitments and more activities mean we simply don’t have the time and energy to do all we did before. This...
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Are You An Artist Or Just A Collector Of Art Materials?
image: dan james In the last couple of years I’ve moved towards minimalism, simplifying my life, the activities I do, and the number of possessions I have. However, on the other end of the scale,...
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Finding The Vessel
image: dan james Within each of us there’s something burning. A fire, passion, urgency, energy, creativity, love, fever, or whatever else you want to call it. What matters most is we need to set it...
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When The Shot Is Worth The Roll
image: dan james Sometimes with photography, I find that I get just one great photograph on a 36 exposure roll. It doesn’t matter that the other 35 shots aren’t worth keeping – that single shot is...
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How To Enjoy Creating Art Again – Three Essential Elements
image: dan james When we make art, it’s the most joy filled, rewarding and uplifting experience of our lives, where every moment is preciously savoured. We feel like we’re dancing barefoot across the...
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Releasing The Deadwood
image: dan james All of us have deadwood in our creative lives that holds us back. Maybe it’s that set of expensive new brushes you bought three years ago but still haven’t used. Maybe it’s a friend...
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902 Days Of Yoga And Finding Freedom In Fallibility
image: dan james Back in the late summer of 2010 I started learning yoga. A couple of months later, on October 1st, I decided to try to make yoga a daily practice for 1000 days. Along the way at...
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Reason To Create
image: dan james What if the end result of your creative efforts were secondary? What if the most vital element was showing up with brave intention, the process, the experience? What if just by showing...
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Ten Percent Everything
image: dan james What if, today, you gave away all but ten percent of your art supplies, tools and materials? What if by honing down to just this ten percent, your creative mind was suddenly able to...
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Losing Count Of Creativity
image: dan james Recently I talked about my attempt at 1000 consecutive days of yoga falling short at 902 days, and how this reminded me of my fallibility, and freed my occasional obsession with...
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24 Lost Photographs (Experience Trumps Results)
image: dan james Recently I shot a roll of 24 photographs. Rewinding the film, I discovered it hadn’t moved past the first frame. None of the photographs I’d carefully composed had been captured. At...
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Cast Out Every Map And Clutch A Compass To Your Heart
image: dan james In a recent conversation in our tribe, I was asked if I had any plan or pattern to how I photograph, such as which camera and film combination to use when and where. My first response...
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Learning To Shun The Shoulds
image: dan james Most of the time I create exactly what and how I want to, revelling in the freedom and opportunities for experimentation that creative approach brings. Occasionally though, I find my...
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Tiny Studies
image: dan james With “studies”, we choose a very small aspect, topic or technique to focus on, rather than trying to create vast all encompassing masterpieces. We go deep, rather than wide. To unfold...
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New Equilibrium
image: dan james Sometimes in our lives, we experience events that cause shockwaves, and seem to change everything. Our very insides feel formless and contorted. We wonder how we’ll get through not...
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The Dwelling And The Doing
image: dan james I don’t know about you, but for me, most of the time that I’m not actually creating, I’m thinking about creating. Often fully aware, and sometimes on a subconscious level. Let’s call...
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Creative Exposure
image: dan james If you were a camera… A photograph at an aperture of f/11 and shutter speed of 1/125s would be exposed the same as one at f/8 and 1/250s. More simply, halve the light through the lens,...
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The Three Essential Es Of Being A Happy Creative Artist
image: dan james There are a number of elements we need in place to be not only creative, but happy and fulfilled in our creative work. I find it helps to break them down and clarify them, so we can...
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