September 2011
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Sep 30th
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“1) I admire people who work hard, who bite the bullet… 2) I admire...”
– in david ogilvy’s book “confessions of an advertising man” he lists what he admires in his workers (this is an abridged version)
Sep 28th
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Sep 27th
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yap, yap, yap
emailing & phoning contacts all week - feeling like a yappy chihuahua with no teeth: all bark, no bites
Sep 25th
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“in a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. and...”
Sep 25th
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my thin skin
just made another cold call to someone i’ve been sending portfolio links to. it ended with me feeling dejected and wondering why i’m still doing this for a living. they didn’t say anything harsh or all that bad really, but when multiplied by the eight to ten previous calls i made, it got to me. they usually say the same thing: “i like your work, but there’s nothing right now. sorry”. thoughts go...
Sep 23rd
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Sep 21st
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Sep 21st
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Sep 21st
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Sep 20th
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wabi-sabi
could be that i’m late to the party but yesterday i learned about this new term/artform/way-of-living. it’s a japanese view of life that i totally agree with, here’s the definition i found online ( http://bit.ly/qjsAi3 ) : Pared down to its barest essence, wabi-sabi is the Japanese art of finding beauty in imperfection and profundity in nature, of accepting the natural...
Sep 16th
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Sep 15th
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michael jackson dream
had a crazy dream last night about michael jackson. he was living in the same run down apartment as my friend/guy-who’s-shacking-up-with-my-sister (that’s not the crazy part). for some reason mj tells my friend/guy-who’s-shacking-up-with-my-sister that he’s planing to kill himself. how? well, he was going to shoot himself in the head using a Rube Goldberg machine setup he...
Sep 15th
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Sep 13th
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Sep 12th
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Sep 12th
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Sep 9th
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Sep 8th
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am i a self-hating artist?
is it possible to be a self-hating artist? i guess it is, you can be a self-hating anything else so why not. i ask because there’s a chance that i just might be one. why you ask? there are many reasons, here are just a few: i don’t like to talk about art, don’t care about what my fellow artists are up to, truly dislike places that have groups of artists mingling with each other...
Sep 8th
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Sep 7th
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Sep 7th
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Sep 7th
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“What designers do is they take revolutions that happen maybe in science or...”
– MoMA’s Paola Antonelli (via curiositycounts) i think this sums it up well.
Sep 2nd
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