Vernon Chatman on Staying True to Your Stupid Ideas
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Vernon Chatman on Staying True to Your Stupid Ideas
At the time, Heidecker wasn’t influenced by comedy at all (he didn’t watch SNL or pay attention to traditional stand-up), but by the “weird awkwardness” of artists like David Byrne and the Talking Heads. “In that first video we did, Eric was editing it, and there was a jump cut where he had taped over this girl ice-skating. So it jumped and went to... See more
Tim’s Time
(My) Creative Professional's Survival Guide
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You can also pursue an unrelated career that provides security while keeping art as a hobby, a hobby that’s the most important thing in your life. All paths are of equal merit.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
The noted neurologist and author Oliver Sacks had this to say about originality, in his essay “Prodigies” from the book An Anthropologist on Mars: Creativity, as usually understood, entails not only a “what,” a talent, but a “who”—strong personal characteristics, a strong identity, personal sensibility, a personal style, which flow into the talent,
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