Stop; inhale, exhale; notice the inhale, the exhale; notice the moment between the inhale, the exhale; now go do something inspired…
Steal
I gave myself one Christmas present this year. It was Steal Like an Artist, by Austin Kleon. I’m about half way through what I figured would be a reminder book, that is, one full of thoughts I know or have heard, but could use to hear again as inspiration. (Sometimes that feels like nagging, sometimes like restating the obvious, sometimes Pollyannaish.*)
The book is inspiring, but done with such a creative flair that for me it avoids all the potential cynical escapes. The drawings help make the messages more real, serving as an example of the advice from the page I’m currently on: use your hands, and turn off the computer.
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*Following some other advice from the book, I’ll remix in something that occurred to me during my research (Rhymes with POLLYANNA: French Guiana, Indiana, Juliana, poinciana (source, Merriam-Webster.com):
Who wouldn’t be a Pollyanna lounging in French Guiana — shit, even Indiana — with Juliana in that poinciana print dress.
Here’s the thing
…there’s something about being an artist — being a musician, being a painter, being a sculptor — when you’re doing it, you’re in the exact moment of your life. And that’s rare, you know. When you’re not in that mode, you’re thinking about yesterday or tomorrow or … but when you’re doing it, you’re so right on the moment.
— Herb Alpert on Here’s the Thing, with Alec Baldwin
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Too much information/running through my brain; Continue reading “Information Destruction”
Sky Pape at June Kelly
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Short Form at Incubator Arts
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pasta autunno
the emerging/mid/established conundrum
Looking for the hot new thing
For a cool old person
The hot young thing
Is new by nature
Continue reading “the emerging/mid/established conundrum”
Money and Art redux
A thorough analysis by Christian Viveros-Fauné in the Village Voice, How Uptown Money Kills Downtown Art.
images from recent days
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