
TURN ON IDEAS FOR WHEN YOU GET STUCK, TURN SOUR, GET DRY OF IDEAS, GET BORED, ETC. Decide that you are going to look intensively for... Reflected self portraits Translucent objects The same translucent object in different kinds of light Colors and patterns in your closet Holes Things with holes The inside of the refrigerator Repeated patterns Sliced vegetables and fruits Parts of statues close-up Shiny things Close-ups of dinner cooking The kitchen sink The route to and from school, work, etc. Shoot and entire roll of film looking down Shoot an entire roll of film looking up Photograph parts of your own body Strange/funny/interesting shadows Parts of a sewing machine, or any machine Moving color Moving camera "Hot" colors Shoot a roll of things that are open, however you translate the word Photograph the inside of someone else's house while they do yours Facial contortions and actions Service stations Objects in improbable environments (furniture in vacant lots) The inside of fire stations Telephone poles and transformers and wires across streets Things that come in threes "Kitsch" objects Preposterous front yards and gardens Loaves of bread, and pieces of bread Series of numbers, or series of letters Single classes of object (e.g. things that are rectangular and red) "Stake-out" of a street corner, a stop sign, a park bench, a cafe table Graffiti White-on-white, black-on-black, etc. Thirty-six photographs made in your bathroom Draw a color out of a hat, and spend the day finding things that are that color Photograph the same egg/flower/leaf/your hand, etc. repeatedly in different worlds Transparent things "Stick-ups" -- business signs that are elevated on poles Surreal store windows Double exposures, Zen style Arrows painted on things Wet places on things People looking at your camera A day in the life of .......... One class of things in a Flea Market Affiche Lacere Footprints People sleeping Schools of VWs Playing cards in the gutter, discarded, etc.
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