Everything started right after my second solo exhibition, exactly one year ago. In that moment, I just wanted to introduce myself and my creative work to the crowd. Exhibition “We are not alone” was opened on Thursday January 14. I bought this awesome domain name on Saturday, coded a very simple WordPress theme during that afternoon and my adventure has begun in the morning January 17.

Die without art was such an amazing experience for me. I’ve met many cool peeps, made lovely friends and had a lot of fun in general. Hooray!

I’d like to pick out some of my favorite posts. So, let’s go back in time a little bit. Stephen Morris made us crazy with his amazing creativity. You must see his jumps and standing-on-head’s. Incredible sisters Mirna and Martina told us their life stories. I felt a big responsibility to bring their story, amazing, must read. During the Stockholm Fashion Week I’ve presented Balkan-inspired clothes by Lamija Suljević. Her main inspiration was the Balkan traditions. Feeling when art makes you younger is very familiar to my dear friend Marta Lamovšek, I simply couldn’t believe she is older than thirty.

I’m very proud of two amazing interviews I did during the first year of Die without art—with professional fashion and portrait photographer Lindsay Adler and lovely Erin Loechner of Design for Mankind. Three guest bloggers helped me while I was away. Sky Nash wrote about five books she loves, Giulia Scifoni showed us photography in the opposite direction and Yamille Marmont presented an exclusive preview of 500 Seconds Of No Breathing, her most personal work ever and a collection of 20 years of images. Thank you girls.

I was dreaming about my studio, my own huge creative space where I can work on visual art projects with my friends. I was official blogger at my favorite regional photography festival Rovinj Photodays. That was awesome!

Thank you all for reading this blog, this is 110th post here. Happy first birthday Die without art! Cheers people, love you.

Is this time when kids are watching Home alone? I’m not worried about idiotic burglars Harry and Marv, because Kevin always wins—he was my hero when I was little. It usually snows around Christmas time, which makes the holidays much more idyllic. What about this year? Where’s the snow on Christmas? Somebody is playing with us.

My family is far away, Google Maps calculates more than 600 km. I’m kinda feeling like Kevin on Christmas. Hah, not really! I will see them right after New Year’s Eve. Otherwise, student life is awesome. New town, new country actually, new friends and so on. Everything’s really cool.

Die without art wishes you a Merry Christmas & Happy 2011.

Bad news knocked on the door last weekend. Maybe it’s not so bad because I still don’t understand what happened. Yes it is about my new little toy Canon 7D. I was working whole summer long to buy it and now the camera won’t turn on. Why? What happened?

During photo shooting with Elen a weekend before it turned off and we had to break off and sadly go home. I came home and recharged the battery. Green light and it turned on. I was so so happy, like I got a baby. I downloaded photos, edited and uploaded some of. Then I had to pack my stuff for moving to Novi Sad. Whole madness.

I moved to Novi Sad, Serbia three day ago. The city is cool and everything is fine but I’ll publish another post about that. Beside I was a speaker at BlogOpen 2010, here in Novi Sad, I also supposed to be official photographer and catch everything around this awesome event. It was Friday morning and I still thought 7D is all right. Before the shooting with aprons for BlogOpen I went for a photo walk and when I tried to turn my camera on, again the same story, it won’t turn on. I couldn’t believe! I was crying that night.

I was searching for the answer. Maybe it’s about the battery or battery charger. Hope it’s nothing serious. The camera was bought from UK, brand new and it’s only 2 months old. 3 year guarantee is fine but I have to send it to UK. If there is another way I’d like to try it. I need it back! Can somebody help me?

Last days I’m working on a brand new experience of Die without Art blog, redesign. Before the launch I’m collecting and processing all important information of how people use my blog. Who they are and what they are looking for. I must admit this is really hard work. I’m reading a lot about design and user experience on the internet, and what is interesting, I’m not a web designer or any kind of a designer actually I’m a photographer and blogger, but I’m trying to do it all by myself. I need a very simple, clean and useful design for my blog. I was brainstorming till 5am last nights. I’m still drawing a new concept, testing different widths, colors and fonts. I’m learning how to use a pen tool in Adobe Illustrator, because I’ll need it for the logo.

Hope the near future will come with new pretty stuff and readers will enjoy totally new experience of Die without Art. If you wanna help feel free to leave your thoughts down below. By the way, why don’t you take a quick survey?

Photo © Rosie Hardy

I know some other blogs and sites disabled leaving comments, but here on Die without Art, comments are still alive. Not so alive, because you have a problem with them. Is it so hard to leave a few words about some others work or I have to integrate like buttons to save your time? Come on, I’m not angry but offended about your relation with my blog.

The blogosphere is made up of all blogs and their interconnections. The term implies that blogs exist together as a connected community (or as a collection of connected communities) or as a social network in which everyday authors can publish their opinions.

It’s a very nice habit of leaving comments on other blogs, right? Blogosphere has to breathe, interact in all ways. We have to grow it together. Maybe this won’t change anything… but… please do not be so lazy.

Photo by SunnyMarry

Making new cool friends via Internet was always my favorite online activity. Especially in the creative circle of people. Some of them are now my real (I also call them face-to-face) friends and I’m such a happy person because of that.

This special blog post is about my new dear online friend Ana also-known-as le vent le cri. Ana is a young 16-years-old photographer from Croatia and you can see some of her shots in this post. FOR MORE VISIT HER AWESOME FLICKR PHOTOSTREAM!

Ana is such a lovely person and I can feel that through her photos, so inspiring. She’s interesting and her photostream is telling one wonderful story. I’m glad she had enough confidence to tell me more about her life. After our call I’m loving her more and more. What has grown from just a few comments, continued via mails? An beautiful friendship! We are still just online friends and I’m looking forward to meet her in person, finally.

Thank you Flickr!

Animation work is great, I work with people, with kids and it’s never boring. In short… creative workshops, aqua aerobics at noon, bike tours, photo routes around the town; sports like beach volley, tennis, basket and so; plus show time program including dances, acting and other performances. I’m doing all this whole summer to buy myself a new photography equipment.

Such a poor free time doesn’t allow me to blog. This summer is crazy, kinda overbooked! About previous post “Academy of Arts is knockin’ on the door!” I have only to say door is closed, so I’m still making my plan for the future and I’ll come back to you in September with more information and some new special topics that are already in draft. News from Novi Sad are not so good, think this is gonna be a very interesting and creative gap year. September is calling!

Busy! Busy! Busy! Busy! Sorry! Be good and see you soon.

It’s my habit writing last minute posts before I go somewhere. Last minute writing is good because all thoughts are fresh, can we call them like that? Ok, let’s see what is this all about…

I worked hard over two loooong months to finish my portfolio and prepare to enroll the Academy of Arts – Photography department, in a very beautiful town Novi Sad, Serbia. This morning I’m going on a 600-km-long-trip from Novigrad to Novi Sad by car and my uncle goes with me. My dear friend Jelena, also know as Queen of the sunset, will be my host for a week or maybe more. Bags are ready, batteries are charging and my eyes are closing. Before I tap “Publish” I just wanna say “Big Respectable & Lovely Thank You” to all of my friends and supporters who wrote a few very kind lines for me. Hope my parents will sleep well these days.

I’M GONNA DO MY BEST, REALLY!

By the way, read my 3 months old post “Setting my goals, reachable targets” about my plans, it’s closely connected with this one, and it will explain a bit better what is in my head at this suppose-to-be-stressful-but-it’s-not-at-all moment.

PHOTOGRAPHY IS MY LIFE, SO WISH ME LUCK!

Huh! That was one long and very busy week without any posts, sorry guys! I can’t really explain you how busy I am these days because of my high school graduating project and preparing for the art academy. There’s almost no time for sleeping, just drawing and drawing with some short coffee breaks. I hope everything will be done soon, in a few weeks – graduating project (this week) and my portfolio for the art academy (a week after). This a very important part of my life, thank you for understanding. I’ll be back soon, as soon as possible. By the way, today I’m celebrating 4 months of blogging at Die without Art. Hurey!

Wanna help? Submit your work!

I’m busy but that doesn’t means this blog will stay without new posts. I’m calling you, my dear readers, to help me! If you wanna share something creative with us please drop me a line to submit AT diewithoutart DOT com, thank you.

If my room is the studio, I actually have one already. I’m writing this blog from here, processing photos, networking, sleeping and so. But I mean the real studio, my own huge creative space. A place where I can work on visual art projects with my friends. That’s my dream!

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. — A. France

I’ll need a very simple and good organised space with all those required equipment such as lighting, softboxes and umbrellas, backgrounds etc. I’m a photographer, that’s clear, but that won’t be only a photo studio, that will be the multi-something studio. The idea is to invite my creative friends and all other art lovers to join me and collaborate on projects, exhibitions and maybe talk shows. I’m looking for designers, illustrators, photographers, developers, advertising experts and guerrilla marketing enthusiasts, social media ninjas and maybe some other cool profession.

I’m still dreaming about a Mac on my desk, that’s also a part of my dream about studio. For team brainstorming we will use IdeaPaint, wall for our ideas. Chill(out) music will be playing all the time in my studio. I’m sure the whole environment will be more than inspiring.

Until the clients discover us and our services we will work on our own identities, each member of our team must have a personal website, business card and maybe a custom tshirt – just for warming-up. I’m a big fan of guerrilla marketing and that’s the way we will promote our studio around the streets. We are going to use social media for spreading the world and communicating with others.

All this is just a dream and I’ll do my best to realize it asap. Then I’ll read this once again.