{"id":3017,"date":"2011-12-05T08:03:35","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T13:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2011\/12\/set-it-aside\/"},"modified":"2011-12-05T08:03:35","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T13:03:35","slug":"set-it-aside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2011\/12\/set-it-aside\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230; set it aside."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marketing guru and generally wise human Seth Godin has a great post today on his <a href=\"http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Godin Blog\">blog<\/a> entitled &quot;Tools vs. Insight&quot; in which he makes an important distinction:<\/p>\n<p><em>Knowing about a tool is one thing. Having the guts to use it in a way  that brings art to the world is another. Perhaps we need to spend less  time learning new tools and more time using them.\ufeff<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Every week I speak with someone in the gallery who has conflated the tool &#8211; in this case the camera &#8211; with the creative process and is convinced they need the newest one to allow them to adequately express themselves. I often suggest that Keith Richards (or any legendary guitarist) could go down the street to the Salvation Army store, purchase a guitar for $25 and make you wish you could find a guitar as good as that one.<\/p>\n<p>Vasari&#39;s &quot;Lives of the Artists,&quot; contains the observation: &quot;Learn the craft, then set it aside.&quot;&#0160; Exactly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marketing guru and generally wise human Seth Godin has a great post today on his blog entitled &quot;Tools vs. Insight&quot; in which he makes an important distinction: Knowing about a tool is one thing. Having the guts to use it in a way that brings art to the world is another. Perhaps we need to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-nature","category-new-paltz-ny","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}