Sub-editing can be challenging and intimidating. How can one be constructive and critical at the same time? Here’s a walk through of how to edit a story, piece, article, even if it’s your own work.
Spend 15 - 2o minutes on each page.
What is Aesthetics?
June 26th, 2009 § 0
Aesthetics is the study of beauty.
It’s the study of emotional values, sentiment and taste and involves all fields of the arts; music, communication arts, painting, photography.
© Tash Jayasinghe
Twenty not so random acts of kindness
June 24th, 2009 § 0
Acts of kindness makes us feel better. It’s the little push from thinking of something sweet and actually doing it: that is a spark of magic.
- Arrange for a happy hour with people you want to know better. Beer always loosens social constrictions and creates new friends.
- Send a “thinking of you” card to someone who lives five minutes away.
Tell them how much you enjoy their company. - Take photos of every holiday and important get togethers. It might seem like overkill, but if you dig up the photos in a year, hit Print and send them to the other party, they’d be stoked.It has a longer lasting impression than posting it on facebook.
- Call that friend you’ve been meaning to catch up with. Make sure it’s someone that you absolutely, genuinely love. There’s no reason to hang onto old relationships just because you’ve known them for so long. Guilt is one of the ways to know you’re keeping in contact for the sake of it.
- Buy a book that you think will help/cheer someone and gift it to them.
- Blow up a picture of your Mum and yourself and send it to her with the words “thank you” scrawled in the corner.
Seasame Street’s still got it
June 22nd, 2009 § 0
I bet everyone has a soft spot for Seasame Street. It’s still a hip show. Ben Stiller and many more dance and sing for our entertainment and I couldn’t be happier. Here’s the best-of vids. Add your own in the comments.
My awesome Saturday
June 17th, 2009 § 0
D.C is completely different during Summer, it comes alive.
Sometimes I have to take a step back to realise that we’re in America’s capital and nothing did it better than watching some Jazz next to the Washington Monument.
9am: Wake up. Reply to emails. W’s still sleeping. Doze off next to him.
“My ideas are gate-crashers”.
June 15th, 2009 § 0
So says Phillip Toledano, a man that left advertising for photography.
He photographs from the heart. I admire that. You may know him from his site, Days with My Father, in which he documents his last days with his declining Dad, a heart breaking drama in which you already know the end but it’s still emotional. My mother and aunty cried when I sent the site to them. It touched me, even though I couldn’t relate his story to any of my experiences.
© Phillip Toldano