Thoughts about Achieving success.. How to achieve your dreams, goals, and aspirations.

Achieving success..

I have been using twitter so much to update my websites and social networking that I have neglected my blogs. There are just some things a tweet cannot cover.

First off, when it comes to thinking about success, there are many thoughts that one should hold in mind.

Having a set of goals that you pursue everyday. Prioritize those goals as well. If you pursue the wrong goal when another should have more priority, you can hinder yourself in the long run.

Surrounding yourself with the right people that mutually help you in your endeavors. This mean being sincerely interested in them as well and developing valuable relationships.

Integrity is also important, if you do not stay steady in your path others will see that quicker than anything. This is not just about honesty, but keeping values, virtues and a good mixed set of skills that you never compromise. If you sacrifice something from your integrity, you divert from your path to success. Temptation can get anyone going along a destructive path and blind them from seeing their true goals and keep a person from seeing true oppurtunity.

I recommend reading books from some authors such as Dale Carnegie, Brian Tracy, Thomas J. Stanley, Dr. Wayne Dyer, Robert T. Kiyosaki and I will talk about others as well in future posts.

Developing a good sense of self esteem is one of the traits that will be most important in your endeavor towards success. Success is not an accident and that means you can achieve if you dedicate yourself to it.

There are many many successful people in the world, but far more that spend most of their time complaining everyday about things that hinder them. All that time they waste complaining, they could be putting to good use being productive and focusing on positive action.

How does one become an artist? They pick up a pencil and start drawing or a paintbrush and start painting, if they need a tool that does not exist, they create it. In any pursuit, you may not be perfect at first and the road to success is paved with lessons and failure. You learn from mistake and what works and what doesn’t and you move on. If you stay focused or dwell on an opposing force, you never make your target, reach your destination or achieve your truest potential.

Far too many people dwell on the temporary or are controlled by their emotions, rather than taking a step back, breathing and seeing things as they really are.

So for the purpose of this post, if you trully want to pursue success in business, art, photography, modeling, networking, helping people, or whatever your goals may be, learn to set goals for yourself. Get yourself healthy, eat the right foods, develop a good sense of self esteem and know what you are capable of.

Just as Eleanor Roosevelt said “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent”.

Wishing you all true, positive and creative oppurtunities for success, wealth and happiness. Take care of yourself so you can do kindness for others. Until next time. Keep dreaming big dreams and be bold enough to take steps in creating your own future.

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A New World and what I am doing in it.

I have been in the creative industry most of my life and involved with photography for several year now. Recently, I have chosen to focus on some new types of created images. I am going to be working on images of inspiration, love, compassion, imagination, heart, feeling and exploring emotion and the human condition.

I feel it is important as an artist to embrace things about the world and express ones perceptions and project it in visuals. Sometimes not even interpreting but redefining an image to provoke thought. I want to be an artist that does not necessarily tell others what to think but rather inspires to think and think for themselves or as a community.

If you are a model, musician, talent, actor/actress, business owner, or just a creative soul that wants to inspire others, bring something new to the table and explore what it is to be human, an artist, a muse and a inspiration to others, then I want to work with you. Curious? Let me know your thoughts.

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New Direction, new goals and plans for 2010

I will always be doing my art and creative projects, it is my heart, my love and dedication. I have been doing much research over the past few months in areas that I have been quiet about until recent.

I have been researching mindsets, behaviors, successful individuals, techniques, belief structure and much more. I have been brainstorming beyond anything I have done my entire life.

Every few months I try to evolve my work to another level. Now I am taking that same mentality and applying it to the aspect of self betterment, for my personality, mental health, well being, communication with others and my craft. I am working on plans within plans, goals within goals.

I will be working to help others better their work and find ways they can improve in their own ways and find resources for their work, projects and even relationships. It’s all about staying positive and keeping personal goals in mind.

From my research and reading, i found that a majority of people never trully put together a goal plan for themselves and even less stick with it. The very action of waking up in the morning and being thankful and focusing on some aspect towards your goals can do so much. People tend to stick in survival mode and do things in a complacent mindset, even when they constantly complain, many do nothing to get themselves out of or away from the situation that makes them miserable.

I will be working on new art and symbolism in 2010. I will still be doing my fantasy art and fun photoshoots, but I will also be working on symbolic pieces. This will not be an easy task, but it will be worth it. I am going to find a way to create new symbolism from new and old ideas and provoke thought. It is important to do more than just exist, if one is to be happy, they must live. Live life to love life.

On that note, I will get back to work creating and researching. I have made an oath to myself to be a lifelong learner and I plan to keep true to that path.

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Attention models/actors in Oklahoma and California. Are you interested in working on projects in 2010?

Many of you know i do several events each year through my photography, promotions and such. Some are body painting, other fashion shows, spokemodels for clients at tradeshows etc. I am working with talent agents and other businesses now as well. If you are interested in working with me this year please let me know either here or by email.

I will be having interested models fill out questionnaires as well so I can know more about each person and find jobs that specifically fit each candidate.

some work is trade and some is paid, I will specify for each project.

Here are some base questions in advance:

1. ) Why do you want to model?

2. ) What can you bring to the table?

3. ) Are you reliable? Why or why not?

4.) What kind of experience do you have?

5. ) do you have a portfolio of your work?

6. ) what are areas you wish to improve on?

7. ) do you prefer studio settings, outdoors, events, promotion, several or all?

8. ) Where do you see yourself in your profession or hobby in 5 years and in 10 years?

9.) if you have previous experience, what was your favorite or most memorable job and why?

10.) When you have differences with a models, professional or client, do you act professional or let your emotions get the best of you? How do you deal with situations that upset you?

11.) Are you willing to work with models that you may not get along with?

12.) What is your favorite genre: R&B, Couture, Fashion, Sports, Nightclub, Spokesmodel, Swimwear, etc.? What do you prefer? What looks best in your portfolio?

These are some general questions that can help me, help you find work as well as some of the clients I work with. You can email me privately, but know responding here, several of the people I work with will see your responses and you will be able to find work not only through me but other photographers, modeling agents, etc. I will also be posting this note on some of my other forums.

Thank you in advance for your interest. 2010 is going to be an awesome year.

Sincerely,
Bryan Crump

http://www.bryancrump.com

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Create Bubbles with Relections in Photoshop



Create Bubbles with Relections in Photoshop

Originally uploaded by bryancrump


Here is a image tutorial I create to help people learn to create bubble with reflections.

1. Copy a square image section from an image in which you desire to make into a reflection.
2. create a new image and paste the square image into it.
3. using the filters, go into distort and select polar coordinates, make sure you select rectangular to polar and click okay.
You will notice your image is distorted to a circular shape. you can make more of a bubble bulge by going back into distort and selecting spherize.
4. Duplicate this distorted image on a new layer.
5. make the background layer, solid black or grey, so you can see the next step as you work on the bubble.
6. using the layer mask tool, paint a transparency into the distorted image, making see through areas for your bubble.
7. create a new layer and paint your light reflections and highlights on the bubble to create dimension.
8. Merge all the laters except the background. you want to keep your transparency and if you merge everything you will lose it.
9. Delete the background image and save your bubble image with a transparent background.
10. Now you can copy and past or input your bubble into whatever image you are working on that you want to add bubbles with reflections.

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial and it helps you to create new and fun work.

Sincerely,
Bryan Crump

Rex The Orange Guy Breathing Fire



Rex The Orange Guy Breathing Fire

Originally uploaded by bryancrump


Rai and her lovely Hat



Rai and her lovely Hat

Originally uploaded by bryancrump


Roya and the Golden Dragon



Roya and the Golden Dragon

Originally uploaded by bryancrump


Body Painting done at Psychopomp in Oklahoma City. The editing style is Another step towards my Hyper Realistic technique aka The Crump Effect!!!

Lovely time with the flu

the past several days i have had the flu, so i have been in bed and not been able to get much work done,edit pictures or do much of anything. I don’t currently have insurance aside from some coverage at the VA but given that they overmedicated me several years ago and other is know have not had the best of luck i really prefer not to go to them.  I did go the other night to the VA  Emergency room after having a temperature of 103.8  I took a cold bath that brought my temp down along with some tylenol but when i temp started going back up, I decided to do something about it. Low and behold I get to the VA and they tell me “they can’t test me for swine flu unless I am a pregnant woman or an admitted patient because the CDC does not want people freaking out because everyone is going to get the swine flu eventually” anyways, so i was given some antibiotics and a pat on the back.

I have occasionally been able to get up for a few minutes at a time from being stuck in bed the past few days and check emails and such. Still feverish, feeling awful and in a lot of pain, but I am sure that there are people that have is worse off.

I just know after what i have been through the past week, I have lost a lot of faith in our healthcare system.  Tomorrow I have another doctors appointment in the morning, so we will see what becomes of that.

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A corset at sunset

A corset at sunset

Originally uploaded by bryancrump

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