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“I was literally breaking in-as in breaking and entering into the local community college to develop my film for free between the hours of 2 and 5 a.m. “The people I try and surround myself with, they know that intuition is the mechanism through which to book your own ticket.” This ‘aha’ moment suddenly helped me become aware and empowered.” It felt like waking up from a sleep state. This perspective has been instrumental in my life ever since. It was when I finally quit that path and pursued my own calling to become a photographer and an entrepreneur that I really felt alive. “I had an incredibly supportive family and yet I still spent years of my life and tens of thousands of dollars chasing everyone else’s dream for what I was supposed to become rather than chasing my own. Frankly, that whole narrative is total B.S.” Namely, that degrees have become a metric for carrying ‘meaning’ for our parents, earning ‘approval’ of others. “I also think my educational path points to an all-too-familiar pattern within our culture-one so widespread it’s become an epidemic. … The reality is there aren’t a lot of parents running around telling their kids to be artists or to be creative.”
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“I bailed on a career in professional soccer, I bailed on medical school and dropped out of a Ph.D. It was this permission to go explore the world.” The silver lining in that was I got his cameras. “My grandfather died two days before my college graduation, which was a terrible, terrible thing.
My interest in all that probably developed from an early realization, a near obsession with the idea that we could capture time, capture stories and moments with tools and a bit of film.” I had these junky disc and 8mm cine cameras. “As far back as I can remember, I’ve been a lover of pictures. I sat at the adult table because there was no kid’s table.” My parents would give me a block of wood and I'd go play in the backyard for hours. “My childhood was a very creative childhood. “If you don’t write your own script, someone else will write it for you.” Zachary Petit, Design Matters Media Editor-in-Chief In chorus with this week’s special live episode of Design Matters, here are 26 such nuggets, alongside some biographical reflections that serve as pins in the map of his own journey. And over the years and through the woods, he has absorbed and distilled a medley of Jarvis-isms for creatives. He believes in the work he produces, and what his work might help others produce.
Jarvis went from amateur snaps in ski bum towns to the forefront of professional extreme sports photography he created a pioneering iPhone photo app he’s shot celebrities he’s interviewed hoards of the foremost minds in creativity he co-founded CreativeLive, and has long been on a mission to democratize access to the arts via the innovative online platform.Īnd through it all, one gets the sense that he’s not just blowing smoke-he believes in the power of creativity. Seeing the indefatigable pace at which he worked-all within the CreativeLive HQ warehouse, an empire he had built from the ground up-was to witness Jarvis’ lifelong drive in action, and helped frame the many places his talent has taken him. I interviewed everyone we photographed, including Jarvis, who subsequently was interviewing a medley of our guests in a neighboring studio for his Chase Jarvis LIVE show. It was, in a word, exhausting-and I wasn’t even clicking the shutter on the Hasselblad that was John Keatley. We were putting together a special issue on San Francisco’s designers, artists, activists, writers and makers, and Jarvis had offered up his CreativeLive studio for the weekend for a comically intense two-day photoshoot involving the likes of Jessica Hische, Liz Ogbu, Scott Dadich, Tim Ferriss, Clement Mok and … 66 amazing others.
When I first met Chase Jarvis, I was the editor-in-chief of PRINT magazine, and Debbie was the magazine’s editorial and creative director.
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