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The Good Stuff 09

July 20, 2018 By Gerik Parmele Leave a Comment

Cinemagraph – Main Street, Kansas City, Mo.

I’m currently on vacation doing my best to relax and be with family. It’s mostly a staycation but we spent some time exploring Kansas City, which was very enjoyable. However, I wanted to keep my streak alive with “The Good Stuff” so here’s a somewhat abbreviated edition. See you next week.

GOOD READS

10 time-sucks for creatives and how to minimize them | Creative Bloq

How artists can overcome imposter syndrome | Creative Bloq

Fifty Shades of Failure | The Creativity Post

Don’t Fake It ‘Till You Make It. Do This Instead. – Ryan Holiday – Medium

Inside the Edit Room of the Eight-Hour Netflix Series ‘Wild Wild Country’

How To Create Art (and Work) That Lasts | Thought Catalog

What Video Storytellers Can Take Away from Netflix’s Biggest Hits

The Good Stuff 08

July 13, 2018 By Gerik Parmele Leave a Comment

This week’s “The Good Stuff” banner has been made in honor of The World Cup and uses the Neymar Typeface –
Neymar’s Epic World Cup Fall Hilariously Rolls Into A Free-To-Download Typeface –

VIMEO STAFF PICKS ON POINT

Watch the transitions in this, amazing.

GOOD READS

Creative burnout is inevitable. Here are 10 ways to beat it “You’re allowed to give yourself a break when you need it.”

8 Symptoms Of Creative Burnout & How To Fix It, According To Mental Health Professionals

Useful Tools for Editors – Summer 2018 edition by Scott Simmons – ProVideo Coalition

How to multitask like a pro | Creative Bloq (Here’s a hint – you can’t)

Why Are We So Certain About Our Mistakes? – Member Feature Stories – Medium (This is a good read. Also, when it comes to mistakes, remember that most people don’t really care about you that much and will forget your mistake in less than a day. Most of the time.)

Todd Hido On “Homes at Night” and Illustrating Memories in Photography – Interview by Coralie Kraft | LensCulture (I love Todd Hido’s work)

LEARN SOMETHING

Check out this course on Editing Dialogue from Moviola.com

“In this series, we’ll go through the basics of editing by cutting a full dialogue scene together. We’ll see the specific decisions editors make to create seamless transitions, invisible cuts, and impactful shots.” (Hat tip to https://www.provideocoalition.com) With that said, Moviola.com is an incredible resource you’ll want to bookmark and revisit often I think.

CURRENT PODCAST OBSESSION

Check out the Ukramedia Podcast for some great interviews with motion graphics people.

SHIP IT

This was the most difficult thing I’ve made recently. Not because it was hard, but because I didn’t want to make it. I don’t feel like making anything. It’s not even that good. Not even an original thing. I just needed to ship something. I’ve not felt like creating anything. But I read this quote from Seth Godin, “the reason that I’ve managed a modicum of success is that I just keep shipping.” The reason Godin is successful is because he ships. He ships a lot. Oh, he’s also failed a lot to because he ships a lot. That’s the way it is. You can’t be successful by just being successful. You are successful because you are willing to fail, and try again. “The price he happily pays for his successes if having a lot of failures along the way.” (Belsky, “Making Ideas Happen” pg. 83)

MY PREMIERE PRO TIP OF THE WEEK

You can expand or minimize the height of your tracks by holding the SHIFT key and pressing the “-” or “=” keys.

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The Good Stuff — Number 7

July 6, 2018 By Gerik Parmele

ROCK MY CREATIVE WORLD WORLD

There are two things that rocked my world this week. I’m still processing through what I heard, and I think I need to re-watch and re-listen to each of them again before I can really get to the core of what I’m going to take away from them. But there’s something that really connected with me in each of the following pieces of media I’m about to post.

Creative Pep Talk 189 – Finding Peak Creative Performance

Are you Chaos muppet or an Order muppet?

Adam J. Kurtz: Perfection Is a Myth

“. . . failure is great, perfect is a myth. Should we be bad?”

GOOD STUFF TO READ

The Freelancer’s Guide to Surviving and Thriving When Working At Home

$7 vs $1000 Motion Design: Is There a Difference?

10 ways to transform your creative thinking | Creative Bloq

You don’t have to live in public

Experimenting with Vertical Video and IGTV — Biscardi Enterprises

To Achieve More, Focus on Your Principles | Adobe Blog

MY PREMIERE PRO TIP OF THE WEEK

Easily group your clips together and move them all at once with Command+G

And how to ungroup your clips.

POST A LINK TO YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA

Do me a favor. Post a link in the comments of this post to your social media, Instagram, Twitter, Behance, Dribble…. wherever. I’d like to follow you.

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The Good Stuff 06

June 29, 2018 By Gerik Parmele

VERTICAL VIDEO

With Instagram’s announcement of IGTV recently everyone is talking about it and talking about vertical video. As well as other ways to take advantage of this new platform.

The app I’ve been using is LumaFusion which is right now probably the best iOS video editing app out there. I’ve used Adobe Premiere Clip a lot, but this one has so much more functionality as well as a preset for 9X16 vertical video. It does cost $19 for the app. But if you’re doing a lot video on your iPhone or iPad, I think it works great. If you are after a free version check out Splice by GoPro.

HOW TO OVERCOME THE 3 FEARS EVERY CREATIVE FACES

The fear of not being good enough, the fear that our work will be irrelevant, and the fear of running out of ideas.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

No one person can be good at everything. The really good artists, the really successful entrepreneurs, figure out how to circumvent their limitations, figure out how to turn their strengths into weaknesses.

Hugh MacLeod. Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity