Getting to Know You (Me)

Hey Aaron,

I dont know if you remember or not, but I msg’d you about an idea I had.
Every one of my non-creative friends were saying my idea was too crazy, almost making me tone it down.

But you bolstered my creative vision, making me go MORE overboard rather than tone it down…
Well funny enough the story for my short is based on when I was a kid, and ALSO used to make forts out of my Mum & Dad’s Sofa.  God bless ‘em they let me have that fort for days : )

I guess I have allways felt creative. It’s not a choice. It’s ingrained. This is a very BAD example, but it’s almost like when someone knows they are a man, trapped in a womans body or something less extreme.
I chose sexuality, because it’s often a thing other people can’t see externally.

You are either creative or not. I get frustrated, when friendcs and family tell me I sould work in a bank or something, Urrgh!!

Anyhow, I can’t reveal my short film idea, not yet…  but when finish it, in a few months maybe?! Phlearn will be the 1st to know : )

A short sample of characters in their fort, in the house : )

From the time I was about 5 I wanted to be a marine biologist.  I never took any art classes (outside of band and swing choir).  My senior year of high school I had all the paperwork filled out to join the Coast Guard and attend the Coast Guard Academy to be a marine biologist. My husband (then fiance) was in the military and talked me out of joining.  It would have been a 9 year enlistment.  Thank God for him. LOL!

When I was in 4th grade my mom bought me a pink Kodak camera that took 110 film and stick flash.  I took it to Ameriflora (a floral exhibit) at the Franklin Park Conservatory in Columbus, Ohio for a field trip.  It was then that I discovered that I LOVED to take pictures.  When I was about 16 years old, my mom bought me a Nikon N55 film camera.  I took it to Washington State with me when I got married and took photos of the Rocky Mountains.  I was IN LOVE with my SLR but was wasting film because I had no idea how to properly use it.  When I finally got a DSLR I was so lost…but with a lot of experimenting I finally figured it out.  And with the help of Phlearn I’m learning Photoshop.  I’m now getting to the point where I’m nearly ready to start a business. =)

Omg Aaron thanks so much for choosing me! Really really happy write now Heres a link to me facebookpage: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Phillip-Schumacher-Photography/161729117206432
and to flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/46332129@N06/
 
Did I won a phlearn pro too….if so….gahhhhhh awesome Thanks again!

Oh and by the way you are your mum are so funny together

this was a cute episode

I dont remember much, but I know I’ve always been creative. Since I can remember I always wanted to draw nice pictures, but I was also not very good at drawing, and my two best friends in primary school were really good! And that seriously pissed me off hahaha. So being quite competitive, I would go home and practice for hours. Eventually, I actually did really well, and drawing is somethign that I adore to do.

It wasnt till I was 15 that I started to take pictures though. I’d been in love for the first time, and my boyfriend at the time had to move from Switzerland to Japan cause of his dads job. So you can imagine I was pretty much distraught and depressed because the person I cared about the most in the whole world was leaving me and I wasnt sure when I’d see him again (i still havent). Anyway, I didnt know what to do with myself! Until, I saw flickr. And then I saw my moms Nikon DSLR that was collecting dust, and i thought, hey! I’m gonna learn how to take good pictures. And then it was this huuuuuge revelation, about how much I adored to take photos. I’d always been interested in Fashion, but I didnt really know what I could do in a fashion industry cause I cant design clothes, I dont really enjoy writing articles, and I’m not good with numbers to business wasnt an option. Fashion Photography is definitely my way of being involved in the fashion industry, and i LOVE it.

I guess thats a bit of a story for you loved hearing about your stories!!
Sorry i didnt enter the contest I took some shots, tried to edit them,but was just not happy enough with them to submit.. next weekend!

xx Olivia

Hey Arron I clearly see where you get all your wackiness from lol, your mom seems great !

aww, she’s so sweet hope you had grate time =)

Thanks Gixter! Submit an email in the contact form with your details, and I will send you your PRIZE!
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Wooow Aaron your mother rocks! Wish i have mother like yours.  I can tell you so many different stories from my childhood, but think one will be most interesting…when i was little girl i was “stealing” camera from my grandpa who was photographer, it was so heavy for me to hold, and he was afraid that i will brake it…finally one day i succeed to take a photo…this is first one i made in my life…i was almost 4 years old…you can see it in attachment….on photo are my grandparents…i’m so happy that grandpa save this, so now i have wonderful memory.

AWESOME episode! your moms awesome

I honestly have not had a proper think about myself as a creative until now but thinking about it in school I was always making blu tac figurines and not of the male genitalia, they were actually pretty detailed =] My Mother was not very ‘arty’ but my Dad is a huge fan of the Japenese ‘Origami’ and I have always been intrigued by I guess “3d art” which obviously has form and is something you can feel.

My ‘art’ besides my sculptures I feel has come from a more media based lifestyle; I LOVE movies and TV, I would definately say I am influenced heavily by what I watch on the screen. Especially a fan of things such as Doctor Who but also crime dramas such as Criminal Minds so my influence is pretty much around what I can watch because I love seeing stories unfold which is why a lot of my work which I have in planning but not yet shot all have some form of a story, some are autobiographical and some are humourous =]

I know ‘media’ may not be classified as art but I am hugely influenced by it and I find a good film a show of good production few influences because of the production quality:
Ninja Assasin (fake blood was poor though)
(500) Days of Summer
Yes Man
The Truman show
Bridge to Terebithia
these are a few I have recently watched that pop to my head =]

Another thing that has influenced me into using photoshop as art for my concepts is the famous Cottingley Fairies story, I remember hearing this story as a kipper and falling in love with the concept because they make things so believable and I would love to create an image that I can say “Look I have fairies in my garden and you can’t prove this is a fake image” xD

I suppose that is how I have got into admiring photomanipulations as art =]

Not teh best story but for me it is all that matters =P

I am always finding inspiration everywhere and recently on the internet I found this video which is not the sort of video I would normally consider inspiration especially as some may argue it’s borderline porn so don’t watch this with your Mum =] – http://vimeo.com/2605789 I love her movement in this and her natural flow it is something that I think can be used as a great lingerie shoot! Yep that’s what I consider research =P

Inspiration for me comes from what I see; when I see it my brain records it for me and I am always thinking about what I like and if I can turn it into an image.

WALL OF TEXT =D If you have been bored enough to read all of this you’re a beautiful person =P

I already love your mom too!

I’m from Bolivia originally and part of my family still live there, and of course i owe some of those “bichos” you have, those are great! It’s a beautiful country and i love it!
I loved your mom too!! 
Great episode!!!

Boy can I relate!  At age 5-8 I was building models and stuff from scratch.  In middle school I was involved in art classes.  Late in middle school and all through High School I wanted to be the next Rick Baker, Tom Savini, or Rob Bottin.  I would spend hours and every dollar of my allowance practicing the trade of make up artistry.  Then I met a very influential art teacher the sophomore year of High School who had his own dark room and I fell in love.  I picked up my first camera and roll of film and from there on I spent every lunch period, study hall, and after school hours taking photos and developing my own black and white photos.  In college I continued with photography but I quickly learned after school that I lacked the business knowledge and I failed (twice).

Those early years influence my decisions now later in life more than ever, and now that my kids are getting older I am back with a vengeance making up for the 10 years I didn’t do anything to feed my creativity.

My kids think it’s the coolest thing in the world and I am glad that I decided to take control and start doing what I love while I can still make a difference their lives.

I wish I had a great story, but it’s likely boring..  When I was a kid I got one of those art training programs via mail to learn how to draw.  While it was interesting, I absolutely sucked!!!  From there the only creative piece of my life was music (piano, saxaphone, etc…)

I picked up photography and fell madly in love in August of 2009 when I bought a DSLR for my trip to Hawaii..  1 hell of a transition from there because my company was shut down and then I decided to go “ballz” out and truly become a photographer and here is where I am..  I still think my stuff sucks, but I don’t want to do anything else and it drives me to get better daily..

I’m late in posting, but I’m going to post anyway.

First, Aaron I love your mother! She is awesome. And I personally love all of your comments when you are teaching a Phlearn episode, the fact that you are funny and just throw stuff in there in great. Please don’t change that–that’s part of what makes Phlearn Phlearn. We could get instruction anywhere. 

I first started photography in high school (think pre-Photoshop, pre-digital) when I took photography class (a million thanks to Coach Cathey) and I always had crazy images that I wanted to get on paper. I learned how to expose two negatives and print them as a double exposure. I had one that I thought was great. It was taken at a nearby lake with some people floating in tubes. I took another close-up of a school mate standing in the water and superimposed the two of them together and it made him look like a giant getting ready to step on the people floating in the water. I tend to see things, even music, as images. I guess I am a very visual person and photography is my way of expressing what I see in my head. 

I lost my camera and previous work in an apartment fire in the early 80s, so photography was put on the back burner. I have raised a family and am just now just catching up with photography and all of the technological advancements. I would love to create photographic art as a business eventually.

My 13-year-old daughter uses my camera and is turning out to be quite an awesome photographer herself, which is very cool. 

Thanks again, Aaron for sharing your knowledge!!

Wow, you two look so alike
When did I discover I am an artist…I guess that was last year only to be honest! When I realized I wanted to learn soo much to be able to do so many creative photos and I realized I wanted to do everything I can to achieve that because it makes me happy!