Halfway There

Hey team,

How are you doing?

Last weekend, I served as production assistant to a photographer/videographer at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival. On Saturday and Sunday. I followed the photographer as she interviewed and photographed numerous filmmakers, international and local. Together, we learned an incredible deal about each filmmaker’s creative process, artistic preferences, and encounters with failure.

One interview I really enjoyed was with a duo of New Yorkers. They were showing The Blessing at the festival. The feature-length documentary, co-directed by the Emmy® Award winning filmmaking team Hunter Robert Baker and Jordan Fein, “follows a Navajo coal miner raising his secretive daughter as a single father, struggling with his part in the irreversible destruction of their sacred mountain at the hands of America’s largest coal producer.” When asked about failure, the duo replied that “no means yes, to keep going.”

As someone in the arts, it’s easy to celebrate someone else’s achievements and compare your setbacks and failures to their highlight reel (when in reality, everyone fails from time to time). Failure and rejection are key to improvement.

Over the last two weeks, I’ve been pretty inspired to create. I’m aiming to create new work (nearly) every day for as long as possible (I made this resolution last week, and I’m attaching the photo in this post). An editorial I shot over spring break in LA was recently denied from a magazine, so I’ll be releasing them on social media shortly.

Even though I’ll probably face plenty of no’s in the coming years (for the rest of my life, actually), I’m determined to continue creating.

xoxo,
Eve

To the (initial) dismay of her parents, Eve is an aspiring fashion creative seeking to break the starving artist stereotype. When she isn’t drinking coffee at Sayles, the Minnesotan gal can be found wandering the Weitz, browsing memes at the Libe, or reinventing old recipes at Dacie Moses. On campus, she is involved in Firebellies, Karl-Pop, CSA, and Carleton Art Society, among other cool student organizations.