Recommended Books and Media
On this page, I’m sharing various books and other media that I have found helpful or otherwise enriching on my creative journey over the years. I share them here with the hope that they might do for you what they’ve done for me. Where appropriate, I’ll added some commentary to indicate why I am recommending them. They are not presented in any particular order, and are added as I think of them.
Some of these will be out of print or otherwise hard to find, but if they of particular interest to you, they may still be worth seeking out.
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Table of Contents
Books | Nonfiction
- The Creative Habit, by Chase Jarvis
- The Creative Act, by Rick Rubin
- The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
- So Good They Can’t Ignore You, by Cal Newport
- Turning Pro, by Steven Pressfield
- Atomic Habits, by James Clear
- The Artist’s Way, by Julia Cameron
- The Zen of Creativity, by John Daido Loori
Books | Photography
- Light: Science and Magic, by Fil Hunter, Steven Biver, Paul Fuqua, and Robin Reid
- This is the absolute best resource on understanding light and lighting. It’s often used as a text at universities, so it can be more expensive than it should be. Used copies are plentiful, though, and older editions are also fine (the physics of light remains unchanged between editions).
Books | Visual
- Pedagogical Sketchbook, by Paul Klee
Books | Fiction
- Vurt, by Jeff Noon
- Falling Out of Cars, by Jeff Noon
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami
Documentaries
- Tokyo Noise
- Arakimentari
- No Maps For These Territories
- Reely and Truly
Movies
- Monday, SABU (1999)
Music
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