Strategies

Look at something 30 times.

Be exhaustive: 175 uses for duct tape; 'Tape:An Excursion Through the World of Adhesive Tape' by Kerstin Finger.

How many ways can you use a material?

Adapt found or discarded things.

Use human volunteers: Spencer Tunnick

Make the minuscule monumental.

Make the monumental minuscule.

Make the familiar unfamiliar.

Make the unfamiliar familiar.

Make the large small.

Make the small large.

Make the old new.

Make the new old.

Recycle.

Paint it - photograph the painting - paint on the photograph. Repeat ad infinitum.

Make the clear unclear.

Make the unclear clear.

Think hybrid.

'The Art of Looking Sideways'. Alan fletcher.

Do 'on the hoof drawings' - enhance using photoshop.

Turn crap into beauty.

Turn beauty into crap.

Sculpt with photographs.

Get excited and make things.

Use 'Oblique Strategies'.