LUCY BELLWOOD LIKES YOUR BOAT |
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Notes 神の臨終: oblique strategies4th edition, created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt
Abandon desire
Abandon normal instructions
Accept advice
Adding on
A line has two sides
Always the first steps
Ask people to work against their better judgement
Ask your body
Be dirty
Be extravagant
Be less critical
Breathe more…Good list. Splendid list.
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Notes By Popular Demand: Freelance Badassery Class Notes!Hey Badasses!
Many of you requested that I put my lecture notes from Monday’s talk online, so here they are (just click the “Read More” link below this paragraph — it’s a mother of a post and I didn’t want to clog up everyone’s dashboards).
I mention Jonathan Lethem’s wonderful essay on creative appropriation — The Ecstasy of Influence — down in the “Suggested Reading” section, but reading through this outline really makes me want to reiterate just how many of these ideas I have lifted or regurgitated from other creators. I’ve given credit wherever I know how to, but know that this stuff gets said a great deal because deep down we all know it.
The information is simple. It’s doing The Work that’s hard.
I challenge you all to make something tomorrow. Something small. Start as small as you can. But make something.
Good luck.
We who are likewise about to make things salute you.
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NotesJamie Hewlett.
This is really beautiful.
He describes the act of drawing perfectly.
Lovely.
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Notes"I don’t believe in writer’s block. Yes, there may have been days or even weeks at a time when I have not written — even when I may have wanted to — but that doesn’t mean I was blocked. It simply means I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Or, as I’d like to argue, exactly the right place at the right time.
The creative process has more than one kind of expression. There’s the part you could show in a movie montage — the furious typing or painting or equation solving where the writer, artist, or mathematician accomplishes the output of the creative task. But then there’s also the part that happens invisibly, under the surface. That’s when the senses are perceiving the world, the mind and heart are thrown into some sort of dissonance, and the soul chooses to respond.
That response doesn’t just come out like vomit after a bad meal. There’s not such thing as pure expression. Rather, because we live in a social world with other people whose perceptual apparatus needs to be penetrated with our ideas, we must formulate, strategize, order, and then articulate. It is that last part that is visible as output or progress, but it only represents, at best, 25 percent of the process.
Real creativity transcends time. If you are not producing work, then chances are you have fallen into the infinite space between the ticks of the clock where reality is created. Don’t let some capitalist taskmaster tell you otherwise — even if he happens to be in your own head.
"Douglas Rushkoff on creativity and breaking through creative blocks (via explore-blog)
Great stuff.
(Source: , via explore-blog)
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“Pictures with words are intrinsic to our history and nature—why then are pictures always the first to go?”
Lucy Knisley has been doing some deep thinking about non-fiction comics:
- A lightly-illustrated-but-very-thoughtful essay on The New Life of the Comic Book that includes a nod to graphic journalism.
- A quick overview of the process behind said illustrated essay.
Samuel Burr, Senior Editor for The American Reader, wrote a companion piece to Knisley’s essay that’s worth a peek as well.
Love the illustration Lucy did for this piece (and, let’s be honest, her work in general. She’s a comics queen!), and the articles are great too! Give ‘em a read.
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Notes"Storytelling isn’t about the scale of the suffering. It’s about what the suffering means, the opportunity it provides for understanding something new about this human condition, the window into another’s humanity. A therapist once said to me, addressing my outrage at having to feel all these, uch, feelings, that pain is information.
“Just like physical pain tells you not to touch a hot stove,” she said, “emotional pain is there to teach us what’s good and bad for us, what feeds us and what depletes us, what needs attention, what needs work.”
In other words, without it, we wouldn’t know what anything meant.
So, we write about it and create art from it in an attempt to share and connect over that meaning. It’s how we progress. It’s how we grow. It’s what keeps us from living in isolated darkness and confusion.
"Deb Norton, from an illuminating entry on Legitimate Pain.
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NotesTumblr only lets me upload 10 pages to one album… go here to read the full story
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Notes Jessica Hische - The Dark Art of PricingFantastic article on pricing for designers and artists. I love reading stuff like this.
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Notes megan rosalarian gedris: coelasquid: Let us take a moment to remember that having an idea for a...Let us take a moment to remember that having an idea for a story, or even an entire story plotted from start to finish in your head does not, in itself, make you a writer. It does not make you a writer any more than thinking about a nice image in your head makes you an artist….
I am shocked — SHOCKED! — at the amount of time I spend fighting impulses to be doing anything but art even when I know art is the primary thing I want to do with my life right now. Timers are helpful. Awareness is helpful. Making shit anyway ALL THE TIME is extra helpful.
Get out and create, motherfuckers.
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A posthumously published interview between Dylan Williams and Fred Guardineer, a cartoonist I’d never heard of until this moment. The interview includes a sampling of Guardineer’s early journal comics from his first months trying to make it as an illustrator in New York. They were drawn in 1935. Even from beyond the veil, Dylan still manages to expose me to new and incredible work — in this case work that reminds me we’ve all been playing this game for a very long time indeed.
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1st page of You Mustn’t Be Afraid, my comic for Nobrow 7.
Keep seeing Luke’s work cropping up all over the place. It’s fantastic.
(Source: luke-pearson)
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Notes"Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager."
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Scheherezade by Ferenc Helbing, a Hungarian graphic artistand painter.
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BAHAHAHA God I love you guys
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A charleston competition during the Lindy Hop International Championships. Holy crap, the amount of sheer joy in that room is...
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when ever i buy new clothes one thing comes to mind
“Is this dance-able”
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Test Number Three.
Necropolis will launch at the end of August as an ongoing weekly webcomic. Stay tuned!
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I recently became facebook friends with Kelly Bastow and we chat sometimes about our artistic futures and it always gets me pumped.
So here we...
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May 16th, transit from Astoria to Cathlamet
I came onto Chieftain this tour to sail and have a great time, but also to learn how to be a bosun. The...
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