by Don Giannatti | Mar 21, 2019 | Brain Food, Business, Photography
MY FIRST QUARTERLY IMAGE PUBLICATION, 2019 I am committed to making a magazine each quarter of my life from now on. I will fill it with creative ideas and images and designs that I work on throughout the previous quarter. This is my first publication and features...
by Don Giannatti | Feb 18, 2019 | Brain Food, Business
WHY YOU SHOULD MAKE A BOOK EVERY YEAR MAYBE EVEN TWO PER YEAR ; Why You Should Make a Book EVERY Year I remember being in a wonderful little book store in La Jolla one summer’s day. There were shelves after shelves of photography books. Monographs, portfolios,...
by Don Giannatti | Feb 11, 2019 | Brain Food
THE MYTH OF "PERSEVERANCE WINS" DETERMINED AND DELIBERATE GROWTH IS THE BEST METHOD ; The Myth of “Perseverance Wins” YouTube is full of them. Facebook memes fill your inbox. Books, articles, and myriad Ted Talks discuss them. The ones who are now great...
by Don Giannatti | Jan 29, 2019 | Brain Food, Identity
OWN YOUR CREATIVE EDGE - ESCAPE FROM "GOOD ENOUGH" IT IS NO LONGER GOOD ENOUGH TO BE GOOD ENOUGH ; Where the magic is. One of the things I see too much of is “like them” shooters cloning or borrowing heavily from other photographers in order to create a faux style of...
by Don Giannatti | Jan 14, 2019 | Brain Food
REIMAGINING THE 10,000 HOUR "RULE" FOR CREATIVE BUSINESS, THERE IS MORE TO IT THAN WE THINK ; TEN THOUSAND HOURS? LET’S REEXAMINE WHAT THAT MEANS IN A PRACTICAL SETTINGBy now we are all familiar with Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000-hour rule from his...