GERIK

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The Good Stuff – 22

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Hello. Here’s this week’s good stuff. A curated list that includes things that have captured my attention and have kept me creative and productive. Stuff like apps, music, books, articles, and videos. If you find it useful, I sure would love to hear from you.

Yapp on the App Store A simple iOS App that gives you Gentle Random Reminders. I’m so happy I found this. I have mine set to remind me to creatively explore my surroundings as well as say a simple prayer for my family.

Sip for Mac Collect, organize, and share colors. A really handy app to keep track of my favorite color pallets.

Here’s a Spotify playlist I’ve been enjoying while getting work done. Not sure how to describe it. Perhaps Jazz with hip-hop beats. It’s very groovy.

How to Configure Your iPhone to Work for You, Not Against You Tons of great tips!

Live from New York — The Drawing Room How the opening title sequence for the 2018-1019 season of SNL was made.

Failed It!: How to turn mistakes into ideas and other advice for successfully screwing up: Erik Kessels Here’s a great book I read a while ago and I’ve been revisiting this week.

(None of these are affiliate links. If they were I’d tell you because it’s the law)

The Good Stuff – 22

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Nothing special, just a curated list of good stuff

I’ve consumed on the internet this week.

 

Free eBook on Making MOGRTs – PremierePro.net

SPACE KIT: Download 40+ Free Space Textures and Elements

Introducing Our Five Newest Features on Adobe Portfolio | Adobe Blog (I’m really excited about splash pages and that I can have multiple websites on a single account.)

After Effects News 2018 October #2 by Rich Young – ProVideo Coalition

Rupi Kaur and the Rise of the Instagram Poet-Entrepreneur – The Atlantic

17 creative weekend routines for a happier, more successful week | Ladders

Dot Pixels  – aescripts.com (This is an After Effects Plugin I’ve been playing around with a lot lately.)

S 3 E 2 You’re it – This is Akimbo(Listen to this podcast!!!! It really made me think a lot about how we need to stop sitting around waiting for someone to discover us.)

Adobe Announces Next Generation of Creative Cloud at MAX 2018 | Adobe Newsroom

 

This blew my mind. Such good work.

 

From – Get Weird: Discover the Surprising Secret to Making a Difference: CJ Casciotta:

 

Big Bird

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On October 6th, 2004, I had a newspaper assignment to photograph Caroll Spinney in Hastings, Nebraska. When I got there I took a chance and began wandering the halls outside of the auditorium he was speaking in. And low and behold I found him, waiting patiently to go on. I probably spoke no more than 3 words to him, something like, “Do you mind?” as I gestured with my camera. He graciously smiled and nodded. I was struck at how small he seemed. I expected someone taller, bigger. Because Big Bird was, you know, big! When I lifted my camera to compose my shot I felt like I wanted to capture my initial reaction to seeing him. He wasn’t big, he wasn’t in costume, he wasn’t in a brightly lit and colored TV set on Sesame Street. He was just himself standing in a sparse concrete hallway. And that still made me happy. I fired off a couple of frames and left him to take my shooting position out in the venue. Thanks Mr. Spinney for bringing Big Bird to life for the past 50 years and being a far-away companion to so many children like myself.