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When artists work well, they connect people to themselves, and they stitch people to one another, through this shared experience of discovering a connection that wasn’t visible before.
Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help
When they went badly, I blogged. I tried not to sugarcoat.
Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help
just wanted to give you this ten dollars. I love the record.
Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help
Yeah. It’s a great video. So, Amanda. Here’s the thing. We think some of the shots of you aren’t that … flattering.
Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help
We knew from experience that our evolving friendship was slowly but surely bringing new people into the fray. Making fans that way—in person, one by one, as they were won over at our shows by our harder-core fans —seemed more effective than going out there and hollering on the radio to a group of unknowns, hoping to be heard by someone who might lik
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Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help
On the street, artists succeed or fail by virtue of their raw ability to create a show in unexpected circumstances, to thoroughly entertain an audience that did not expect to be one, and to make random people care for a few minutes.
Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
where he asked for and received Gus’s kind blessing to make a display stand for our CD at the register. At every shift, he wound up selling a few CDs to ice-cream customers. GET THEIR EMAILS! I’d remind him.
Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help
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