May 2013
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I'm in the current issue of SPACE magazine. →
Thanks Irish Degala! :)
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“I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction and...”
– Stephen King, On Writing (via nickmiller)
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April 2013
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On Artist's Statements
Daniel Blight writes:
Combining radical notions of performativity and the body as liminal space, my practice interrogates the theoretical limitations of altermodernism. My work, which traverses disparate realms of object-making such as painting and performance, investigates the space between metabolism and metaphysics and the aporia inherent to such a discourse.
Are you impressed yet? These...
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Conceptual Blending
“I feel like the programmer, and the visual artist versions of me are very similar, and function in much the same way (not to mention many other facets of my personality and habits).”
Stephanie Pui-Mun Law, an artist whom I deeply admire, wrote this and I can relate! :)
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Conceptual Blending, written by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law
The path of my career has...
March 2013
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We (The Slinks) have an acoustic gig on March 23 Saturday, at Cafe Publico, Greenhills Promenade. 4-5PM :) Looks like a cute place! Thanks to RJ Society of Music! ♥ Hope you can come and watch!
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February 2013
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January 2013
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“I’m not a trained musician. All I’ve been able to figure out from...”
– TED interview with Abigail Washburn
December 2012
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November 2012
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You must be willing to be a bad artist
Remember that in order to recover as an artist, you must be willing to be a bad artist. Give yourself permission to be a beginner. By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.
When I make this point in teaching, I am met by instant, defensive hostility: “But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the...
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It's Not Worth It - creatives must navigate... →
“Most artists and designers I know would rather work all night than turn in a sub-standard job. It is a universal truth that all artists think they a frauds and charlatans, and live in constant fear of being exposed. We believe by working harder than anyone else we can evaded detection. The bean-counters rumbled this centuries ago and have been profitably exploiting this...
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Some thoughts and musings about making things for... →
“I used to fear that my ideas were drawn from a limited pool and that at any moment this pool would dry up.
This is true if you think of creativity like a pool. A pool is a still, stagnant body of water…
Instead, idea generation needs to be like a river. There is life in a river. And death. There is love and hate. Fresh input flows in and out… there is always change.
Make a...
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October 2012
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September 2012
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arreter:
How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection? An artist is emotional, they think, and uses only his intuition; he sees all at once and has no need of reason. A scientist is cold, they think, and uses only his reason; he argues carefully step by step, and needs no imagination.
That is all wrong.
The true artist is...
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“We have to be brave about rejections and reject them. Let’s never be...”
– Anne Rice, on rejections. Books that were initially rejected by multiple publishers include: Gone With The Wind, Lolita, Animal Farm, The Fountainhead, A Wrinkle In Time.
August 2012
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“Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.”
– Serbian proverb
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Anonymous asked: what are your favorite makeup brands? youre so pretty :))
Anonymous asked: hi! do u use primer or gesso when u paint on wood? thanks! you inspire me to do more art. :)
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July 2012
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