Has everyone heard of the 10,000 Hour Rule by now? It was put forward by author Malcolm Gladwell with the reasoning behind it being that in order to become really really good at what you do, you need to put in 10,000 hours of actually doing it. Yeah. Being gifted has nothing to do with it. You actually have to get off your butt and
What 100 Days Can Do
What can 100 days do? No really… what can you do in 100 days? Where does it get you? I mean… it doesn’t sound like much. Anyone could do 100 of anything. 100 jumping jacks. 100 photographs. 100 words. It’s such a small number that it feels totally achievable and yet, so achievable that it almost creates a “why bother” attitude… it’s not enough to really
Weekend In My Studio: Half Way Through The 100 Day Project
I’m a wee bit more than half way through the 100 Day Project now. Today will be day 55 and I feel like I’ve hit a bit of a groove with my 100 Days of 10 Minute Doodles. It was fun to go back and look at them all in a group when I hit the 50 mark and got it got me thinking
Weekend In My Studio: The Analog Desk
Last weekend I did a major clearout of my office/studio. It was long overdue and had slowly turned from a room in my house that I loved, to a room that I was dreading going into. The clutter had gotten so bad that I had taken to working in Starbucks far more than I was actually working at home – just so I could
Weekend In My Studio
A while back I mentioned that I’d be changing things up a bit through the new year and getting back to my roots. You see, when I started this blog back in 2010, it was never meant to be a food blog. It was simply going to be a place where I could write and practice taking photos of my food, something I’d already been