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Developing a photographic style

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Developing a photographic style

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- Couple of months ago I was motorcycling across Nevada, and as I sometimes do when I'm riding in really remote places, I was listening to a podcast as I was riding. I was listening to an episode of NPR's Fresh Air, and Terry Gross was interviewing Jon Stewart. I think The Daily Show had just ended and she was playing back interviews that she'd done. He was telling the story of one of his earliest gigs in New York when he had a 2 AM time slot every single night at some comedy club. He was saying how, you know, of course, there's hardly any audience at 2 AM. But that what that experience did for him, doing that time slot over and over, going there in the middle of the night and just doing his act, whether there was an audience there or not. Doing that over and over, what that did for him he said was he learned to stop impersonating a comedian and become a comedian. So I was listening to that as I was riding along.…

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