Why it is necessary to replace Instagram on a notepad and pencil
Motivation Inspiration / / December 19, 2019
Now every second person with iPhones can feel like a photographer taking pictures of anything and everything, and laying them in Instagram. Make a simple picture (of course, I'm not talking about the quality of this photo), do not choose the time or wasting time - one tap, and the picture is ready.
But if your points are worth their capture, why not spend on them a little more time to make a sketch? It did just one developer in Silicon Valley, the whole year giving up photos to sketches. Read about his experience, and that can be obtained by repeating it.
Fahd Butt - Senior Software Engineer from DNAnexus, Company of San Francisco, which operates large amounts of data and cloud storage for genetic studies.
When he was 30 years old, Butt moved to San Francisco for the first time attended the festival Burning man, then I went to a friend's wedding in Toronto. In addition, he met the woman he loved and married her in Pakistan.
So many memories... You can imagine how many pictures can a man do in such circumstances. Especially a person like Fakhd Butte, calls himself "fotonarkomanom" and having about 200 albums on Facebook.
But no, he did not even take a camera and use the camera on your smartphone. Instead he fixed moments - both bright and small - a pencil, marker and watercolors pads in dozens that dragged along.
Year without photos
Butt said that about six years photographing was his way of support in society, able to hide behind the camera, in order to avoid a real living their lives.
Partially inspired by travel notes and sketches illustrator Craig Thompson Butt decided to revise their vision of the world through the lens of the camera.
"The first wash it were filled with excitement - says Butt. - What if I get to do it for a month? Anyone will be able to do this month, it is not so difficult. Three months? This is better, because it can happen more than interesting. That's why I thought of the date in the year. Will I be able to do it? What can happen in a year? "
Apparently, a lot. For the year in Batta accumulated a lot of sketches and watercolor drawings festival, concerts and parties, friends, correspondence on Skype with his future wife, and many French toast.
Butt admits that the drawings of French toasts were given to him is not easy. It was hard to resist and do not eat toast, while drawing will not be completed, and when he finally gradually completed drawing, toast has cooled.
Within a year he scanned many of his paintings and sketches and posted them to Facebook, Album Crafture. In the future, he hopes to make a book of them, but so far the album with his drawings is the sort of story about a year of life, saturated with different events.
Batta project proved to be quite relevant. Just a few days ago in The New York Times I published an article on chronic "fotoklikerah" entitled "The decisive question in the generation of iPhones: live at or photograph it?".
Now that the year is over sketches, Butt thinks that he has received, forgetting about your photos, not only on the iPhone, but even on a vintage camera, received from his grandfather.
What do we get by changing the camera to the notebook for sketching
When you do a quick photo, you do not reflect on the moment, do not live it - you just take a picture and share it. With sketches it will not work, because you can not draw something without thinking, just like that.
The attention that is required for charting singles out some kind of picture of the mass of events, people and concentrate on the moment as could never just taking photos. Fahd Butt
In addition, the drawings improve relationships with friends.
Butt said that the painting has helped him to communicate with friends and made to love them even more.
A friend of mine said that when you make someone else's photo, you put between his party piece of equipment for $ 2000. And with a notebook for sketches among you there are no obstacles, and it makes focusing attention on the person really get excited about it. Fahd Butt
Butt has changed and quality of work in the development and design. Changing the camera on a notebook and a pencil, he began to think more creatively:
This opens up your creative side helps to approach the other hand, go beyond and do something new. Fahd Butt
If your only argument against the sketches - "I can not draw," then this is nonsense. Look at the drawings Batta, they can hardly be called professional, and some of them are very similar to children.
But, despite this, they have a lot more sense than another soulless the pictures of Instagram.