Nicholas Rider

Journalist | Photographer | Deputy Editor @RetailWorldAus & @CWorldAus | Music nerd

[Nicholas Rider @NicholasRider_]

Since late last year, I’ve been putting together a website showcasing my contrasting passions: #journalism and #photography. Today, I’m very excited to finally launch this portfolio of work: https://t.co/m3D9RIO5WE

[revolvermag @Revolvermag]

SYSTEM OF A DOWN released 'Steal This Album' #onthisday in 2002.

What's your favorite song?

[Aesthetica Magazine @AestheticaMag]

"There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist – it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist."

Kara Walker was born #OnThisDay in 1969.

[Aesthetica Magazine @AestheticaMag]

#InsightOfTheDay Chris Burden

"It's about trying to frame something. And draw attention to it and say: "Here’s the beauty in this. I'm going to put a frame around it, and I think this is beautiful." That’s what artists do. It’s really a pointing activity."

[revolvermag @Revolvermag]

System of a Down released 'Hypnotize' — their last full-length release — #onthisday in 2005.

What's your favorite song?

[revolvermag @Revolvermag]

KILLSWITCH ENGAGE released 'As Daylight Dies' #onthisday in 2006.

What's your favorite song?

[Northlane @Northlane]

Excited to share DANTE with you.
https://t.co/0nMDQksSw5

[revolvermag @Revolvermag]

🎂 Happy birthday, KEITH BUCKLEY!

From EVERY TIME I DIE to THE DAMNED THINGS to MANY EYES, what's your favorite song he sings on?

[revolvermag @Revolvermag]

METALLICA released the double-album 'Hardwired... To Self-Destruct' #onthisday in 2016.

What's your favorite song?

[Aesthetica Magazine @AestheticaMag]

“I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.”

Dada and Surrealist artist Man Ray died #OnThisDay in 1976.

Image: ‘Glass Tears’, (1932)

[revolvermag @Revolvermag]

🎂 Happy birthday, KIRK HAMMETT!

What's your favorite METALLICA guitar solo?

[Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes 🐍 @therattlesnakes]

Brambles. The next single from our album Dark Rainbow is out everywhere now. https://t.co/KEpoS3EiK7

[Judas Priest @judaspriest]

TRIAL BY FIRE. OUT NOW. https://t.co/nZiIWE8puE

[Aesthetica Magazine @AestheticaMag]

"I would like to paint the way a bird sings"

Impressionist painter Claude Monet was born #OnThisDay in 1840.

[Aesthetica Magazine @AestheticaMag]

#InsightOfTheDay Elliott Erwitt

"To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them."

[Write of Passage @1WriteofPassage]

Every creator should pin Orson Welles' definition of style on their desk:

“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.”

Know your vision—and your warts. Know the feeling you want to leave your audience with. And then forget about the thousand details that don't matter.

Style exists at the border of caring and not caring.

To be stylish is to care obsessively about what matters—and not at all about what does not.

Nail the essentials, bail on the rest.

That's style.

[Write of Passage @1WriteofPassage]

Your greatest work happens at the confluence of your unconnected obsessions.

Tolkien's college tutors were in "despair" over his random hobbies: writing verse, constructing new languages, and dragon tales.

But without them, he would've never written Lord of the Rings.

@david_perell: "Surrender to your nature." And to your authentic interests. Wherever your attention organically goes, you must follow. Your creative output is nothing but the line connecting the dots you've collected.

The more varied the dots, the better.

[Aesthetica Magazine @AestheticaMag]

"My work is about seeing – seeing things like they haven't been seen before."

Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe was born #OnThisDay in 1946.

Image: Patti Smith, 1975.

[revolvermag @Revolvermag]

✊🏽 RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE released their self-titled debut #onthisday in 1992.

When did you first hear it? When did you last listen to it?

[The Beatles @thebeatles]

#NowAndThen is now available to listen to worldwide!
https://t.co/jQtFaz5rfG

[revolvermag @Revolvermag]

✊🏽 RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE released 'The Battle of Los Angeles' — their last studio album of original material — #onthisday in 1999.

What's your favorite song?