How Adrian Farr Escaped Corporate Life to Pursue His Dream
The CreativeLive community is full of incredibly talented individuals, with inspirational stories of how they started doing what they're doing - one of them is Adrian Farr, a UK-based fashion and portrait photographer.
11 Things No One Tells You About Freelancing
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Here is what I knew about working as a full-time freelance writer before I actually did it: Yoga pants and working from my bed.
I have a feeling this is the idea that most people have about freelancing — that it's all slippers, lazy mornings over giant mugs of coffee, and dreamily, blissfully rejecting cubicle life.
How TED Inspired a Whole Generation of Public Speakers
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TED has been in the business of talking for over 30 years (it began as a one-off conference in 1984), and the massive success of NPR's TED Radio Hour, as well as myriad other conferences and lecture series have made the talks a must-see (and a must-do) for many designers, musicians, writers, developers, CEOs, and other entrepreneurs. Between Ignite, Creative Mornings, and the various TEDx conferences held around the world, the national and international audience has stepped up to the lectern and packed the auditorium and declared that we are ready to talk and to listen.
13 Vintage Pet Photos to Make You Go 'Awww'
Think pet photography is something that was invented with Instagram or possibly LOLCats? Hardly!
12 Animal Photobombs - Because Animals Don't Listen to Directions
Photographers are always chasing the perfect picture — perfect light, perfect framing, perfect camera settings to capture the perfect details. But sometimes, our non-human companions have an agenda of their own.
9 Adorable Animated GIFs Made from Vintage Illustrations
Leave it to the Smithsonian Libraries to have a delightful collection of vintage GIFs which blend the Internet's love of moving pictures with everyone else's love of classic line drawings.
A current fascination among historians, the design-enamored, and people who like to watch old images take on new life, the GIFs have been shared everywhere from the Washington Post to Flavorwire.
A New Shade of Blue – What Will You Discover?
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If you're an artist, designer, or are at all interested in color theory you might think it's an understatement to call the discovery of a new color a "happy accident," but that's exactly how Mas Subramanian is describing his serendipitous discovery of what is now called YInMn blue. Of course, the color blue has been around for some time, but this particular pigment is among the bluest ever created.