A. OSTERMAN
Welcome to my rock'n'roll world!
All photos taken by me!
Note to self:
Take more self-portraits.
"Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know it’s normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take a while. You’ve just gotta fight your way through."
Live well. It is the greatest revenge.
"Sometimes there’s so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can’t take it, and my heart is just going to cave in."
"If you’re passionate about something and you go after it full force, hopefully you are going to find like minded people and they are going to hire you to shoot stuff that you love to shoot… Let people follow you into your passion, and then your rockin’. Then you’re walking in the woods at Moby’s house. - Danny Clinch"
