Tim Gruber and Jenn Ackerman use both photography and video to tell stories for editorial and commercial clients. 
The thing I love about life is that inspiration can be pulled from anywhere.
Like this obituary of Robert Rauschenberg:
Messing up is alright:
Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can’t read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.
Don’t fear change:
John Cage said that fear in life is the fear of change. If I may add to that: nothing can avoid changing. It’s the only thing you can count on. Because life doesn’t have any other possibility, everyone can be measured by his adaptability to change.
Be careful of what you know:
Anything you do will be an abuse of somebody else’s aesthetics. I think you’re born an artist or not. I couldn’t have learned it. And I hope I never do because knowing more only encourages your limitations.
Inspiration can be found everywhere:
I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly. Because they’re surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable.
A piece by Rauschenberg:
Thanks Tim, just what I needed today. To bad it comes from an obituary but like you said, inspiration comes from anywhere. Hope the grant searching is going well. Best of luck with that.