Comments on: Going Pro – The Road to Artistic Suicide http://blog.americanpeyote.com/2007/05/31/going-pro-the-road-to-artistic-suicide/ An American photography, writer, research engineer working in Winterthur Switzerland near Zurich Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:50:43 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mark http://blog.americanpeyote.com/2007/05/31/going-pro-the-road-to-artistic-suicide/comment-page-1/#comment-3528 Mark Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:35:25 +0000 http://blog.americanpeyote.com/2007/05/31/going-pro-the-road-to-artistc-suicide/#comment-3528 I'm so down for the engineering hobby thing. What if photography was treated like research? You'd get funded to produce images and photos of the things that interest you, then it would all get published in a journal for everyone to use and enjoy for their own creative desires. I was thinking, if I won a large lottery, like 20 million or something, I'd quit my job and open up my own research lab. I’m so down for the engineering hobby thing. What if photography was treated like research? You’d get funded to produce images and photos of the things that interest you, then it would all get published in a journal for everyone to use and enjoy for their own creative desires.

I was thinking, if I won a large lottery, like 20 million or something, I’d quit my job and open up my own research lab.

]]> By: Andrea http://blog.americanpeyote.com/2007/05/31/going-pro-the-road-to-artistic-suicide/comment-page-1/#comment-3516 Andrea Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:37:10 +0000 http://blog.americanpeyote.com/2007/05/31/going-pro-the-road-to-artistc-suicide/#comment-3516 For as much as I can say, these sound like very wise words. I know a couple of people who do photography for a living or at least as part of their job. The pressure seems to be high. Instant creativity is not necessarily easy (remember ever staring at a blank page when you had to write a 4 page essay on topic x in 90 minutes in high school?). For what I understand the creative work that you like gets confined to the after-work, like a hobby.... As a matter of fact, I hope to win the lottery and become something like and amateur engineer. Or maybe I go Pro as a photographer and get to do engineering as a hobby >8-0 ... For as much as I can say, these sound like very wise words. I know a couple of people who do photography for a living or at least as part of their job. The pressure seems to be high. Instant creativity is not necessarily easy (remember ever staring at a blank page when you had to write a 4 page essay on topic x in 90 minutes in high school?). For what I understand the creative work that you like gets confined to the after-work, like a hobby….

As a matter of fact, I hope to win the lottery and become something like and amateur engineer. Or maybe I go Pro as a photographer and get to do engineering as a hobby >8-0 …

]]> By: Blog Drive-Bys for 2007-06-02 - Untwisted Vortex - Living in a Different Land http://blog.americanpeyote.com/2007/05/31/going-pro-the-road-to-artistic-suicide/comment-page-1/#comment-3505 Blog Drive-Bys for 2007-06-02 - Untwisted Vortex - Living in a Different Land Sat, 02 Jun 2007 08:02:27 +0000 http://blog.americanpeyote.com/2007/05/31/going-pro-the-road-to-artistc-suicide/#comment-3505 [...] wrote a very thorough article on two sides of an issue at An American Peyote Scribble. Should an amateur photographer attempt to go professional? If not for the money, why would you [...] [...] wrote a very thorough article on two sides of an issue at An American Peyote Scribble. Should an amateur photographer attempt to go professional? If not for the money, why would you [...]

]]>