February 2012
2 posts
“In order to arrive at a personal style, you have to have a technique to begin...”
– Phillip Glass, interviewed by his cousin, Ira Glass (via austinkleon)
Or, form must inform function, and vice versa.
January 2012
9 posts
“Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your...”
– Jonathan Coulton (via austinkleon)
“Stop stealing crap. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not against stealing. I’m against...”
– Mike Monteiro, “10 New Year’s resolutions for designers” (via austinkleon)
I’ll add, or summarize: Curate your influences as much as you do your interests.
December 2011
5 posts
“It’s not because you don’t do concerts that you can’t play the piano.”
– Alexis Jenni, 48-year-old high school biology teacher and surprise winner of France’s top literary prize, quoted in “When Does a Writer Become a Writer?” (He’s keeping his day job, by the way.)
November 2011
11 posts
1 tag
1 tag
October 2011
18 posts
“But wait!” I can hear you wail. “We’re Americans! We love nothing more than to...”
– Mark Morford, “Hurry up, get more done, and die” (via curiositycounts, filed under: idleness)
“All you had to do was look at each of your players and ask yourself: What story...”
– Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding (via austinkleon)
1 tag
September 2011
3 posts
2 tags
“We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Experience,” collected in Essays and Lectures (via austinkleon)
August 2011
6 posts
Working for Free →
Reading stories like this one has helped me solidify my decision to quit my dead-end job in retail tech support and follow my passion. Yesterday I attended a mask workshop, which I was thrilled to pay for because it gave me the opportunity to do something I love and learn something new about my craft. I’d even amend the author’s statement to “find work that you would pay to do,...