009: When is your work “good”?

Welcome to the Idle Hands Society Podcast - where we hope to discuss and learn more about the effective creative process.

In this episode, Dan and Paul discuss how they tell when they’re doing good work. Along the way we find out;

• Paul’s phone has been ringing off the hook with job offers

• Dan and Paul will be reunited again after a year apart

• Dan’s been thinking about doing a degree and his concern about formal education

• Our personal processes for finding our ‘keepers’

• Dan’s shameful gig with Wheatus in a former public toilet

• Paul’s journey towards adding context in to his portraits

Reach out to us @idlehandssociety. Your hosts today are @dan_s_higginson, @paulbenceuk on Instagram.

“All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. For while in all other kinds of art it is possible to distinguish the matter from the form, and the understanding can always make this distinction, yet it is the constant effort of art to obliterate it.”

— Walter Pater

Mentions

• Lewis Bush Online Courses

• Understanding a photograph by John Berger

• East London Up Close by Mimi Mollica

• Paul’s Lady in the red dress (get photo)

• Streetmax21 organised but surreal candid photographs of groups of people

• Stephen Shore gets something out of ‘nothing’

  Shout outs

• Think Like a Street Photographer by Matt Stuart (Paul’s choice)

• Holy by Donna Ferrato (Dan’s choice)

Lady in red dress by Paul Bence