{"id":4121,"date":"2011-11-15T12:52:47","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T04:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/?p=4121"},"modified":"2011-11-15T13:03:47","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T05:03:47","slug":"from-my-bookshelf-jose-villa-the-classics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/from-my-bookshelf-jose-villa-the-classics\/","title":{"rendered":"From my bookshelf: Jose Villa & The Classics"},"content":{"rendered":"

“When you\u2019re at that point, when you feel it\u2019s all pointless\u2026 It\u2019s not. <\/em>
\nThe trick is to just keep doing it, that\u2019s how you succeed in the end. It\u2019s the secret to life, <\/em>
\ndo anything often enough, and for long enough, and you get good at it. So keep on. <\/em>
\nKeep writing. Keep painting. Keep singing. Keep dancing. Keep fighting. Keep. On.”<\/em>
\n-Unknown<\/h3>\n

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I’ve seen the movie Jane Eyre countless times now. Both 2006<\/a> & 2011<\/a> versions. I know. Crazy. If you remember, I’ve drenched myself with those other\u00a0favorite period movies<\/a>, too last time. And I’ve been wanting to rummage the bookstore again. Finally, I did about 2 weeks ago and got me a splendid deal of \u00a03 classic books for $10, oh yes baby<\/em>! But what was I doing in\u00a0high school, I wondered why\u00a0I’ve not read these classics yet!<\/em>\u00a0Boooo!\u00a0<\/em>\ud83d\ude42 I sure heck remember Jules Verne’s\u00a0Around the world in Eighty Days <\/em>though! <\/em>Anyway, can I tell you a secret (if i haven’t yet?)<\/em> Sometimes I just stare at them — the books — and smell them. Yes, I smell them like wanting to take a bite too. And the words inside, are like flying out of the pages — and just like that, they easily put extra color into my world. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Did you notice the book at the bottom, too? I’ve ordered Jose Villa’s book<\/a> finally last August online but only managed to get my hands on it a few weeks ago. Thanks to my dear friend who brought it along for me so I didn’t have to pay extra shipping costs.<\/em>\u00a0Jose Villa<\/a> is one of the best and great film photographer in the wedding industry today and his visual art has been a great inspiration to me while I’m still starting out, but even though I don’t use film in my own photography (something I’d love to learn more!<\/em>), there’s a LOT to pick from his brains and years of experience in the field. So, I’m taking time to read every line, highlighting important ideas with a green pen and enriching myself from every thought he’s shared. I tell you, his works — they just blow me away! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

So that’s what’s been filling up my days in between.
\nAnd I just wanted to remind myself today to keep on.
\nKEEP READING. KEEP SHOOTING. KEEP BELIEVING. KEEP INSPIRING. KEEP LOVING. KEEP ON.<\/strong>
\nAnd if somehow this message gets to YOU, too — that alone makes me happy. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Hope your week has started out lovely!<\/p>\n

REMINDER: Deadline of submissions on my Giving Back<\/a> project this coming Nov 20, 2011 11:59pm. Let’s keep it rolling! \ud83d\ude42 \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“When you\u2019re at that point, when you feel it\u2019s all pointless\u2026 It\u2019s not. The trick is to just keep doing it, that\u2019s how you succeed in the end. It\u2019s the secret to life, do anything often enough, and for long enough, and you get good at it. So keep on. Keep writing. Keep painting. Keep …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[203,205,201,206,54,204,200,202],"class_list":{"0":"post-4121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-from-my-bookshelf","8":"tag-classical-books","9":"tag-emma","10":"tag-fine-art","11":"tag-gullivers-travels","12":"tag-inspiration","13":"tag-jane-eyre","14":"tag-jose-villa","15":"tag-wedding-photography"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/JSP6145.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4121"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4141,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121\/revisions\/4141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}