When you perform, half of the brain has to be in complete control and the other half of the brain has to be at a complete loss.
Maria Callas, from a conversation between Marina Abramovic and Laurie Anderson in BOMB Magazine
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Just listened to Alissa Walker’s interview on Humble Pied about “ignoring your job title.”
It’s the same idea that had me all excited about Gabriel Orozco’s show at the MoMA.* He doesn’t feel constrained by the collective consciousness definition of what an artist can be, or I, at least, don’t get the feeling that he’s trying too hard to create capital A-R-T. Either way, the joy is evident and in the breadth of the work there is clarity.
Like Alissa says, whatever you do becomes your body of work!
* and now that I think about it, this is the same reason that I get excited about anything. Maybe it’s also why I like reading writing about writing, I can’t find the quote, but somebody said that the business of a writer is living life, if that connection makes sense at all.
At Home With Jenny Holzer, the Artist - List - NYTimes.com
When inspiration struck: I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. The epiphany for me was that I wasn’t a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I put them in the streets as posters. I did a lot of skulking around downtown with a bucket of wheat paste and a roll of posters late at night and would occasionally get caught.
Her doppelganger: There’s someone pretending to be me on Twitter. At least they’re using my stuff. I wouldn’t tweet. I like when my work is anonymous and public.
Reason she stopped writing: I stopped using my own words in my work around 2001. I’m a half-baked writer at best and find the process painful, and I wanted to be able to include a greater range of subjects and emotions and all those good things than I could muster. In short, I like the art part better.
Evening routine: Eat a frozen organic pizza. Maybe watch a “Law & Order” rerun. “Law & Order” reruns are important to country folk. It keeps the city close. I go to bed around 1-ish.
Work routine: I work almost all the time; if I don’t work, I become anxious. About the only thing I do when I am home that isn’t work is a barn check, to make sure the horses aren’t stuck in corners. The horses are relaxed and happy to see me. I come bearing hay.
Work she’d take back: How about everything I have done to a certain extent? I disappoint myself routinely. If you are an artist and you are honest, you are never good enough.
Favorite line of the moment: “The future is stupid.”
More questions and house pics here.
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Zappos hiring process — each time Zappos interviews a candidate, Zappos sends a shuttle to the airport to pick up the interviewee. The shuttle driver then will tell the recruiting team what happened in the shuttle so that Zappos can get a better understanding of the interviewee.Startup School: Tony Hsieh On Delivering Happiness (via tedr)
Self-Publishing: Interview with Alan Rapp on HHS!
Woo! The interview on publishing and self-publishing that I did with Alan Rapp, editor of wondrous books such as The BLDGBLOG Book, among many others, has finally hit the internet. Publishing is something I think about a lot, and Alan’s answers make it clear that he does too.
Here’s one response that still has me thinking, a week after hearing back:
For all the possible flaws in the trade publishing model, one thing I always liked about it is the collaborative process. It defies the auteur model; the author is almost never the sole creator. I suppose that this could sound like the ex-editor making a case for the value of his role in an industry that is really undergoing massive and fundamental changes, but I stand by the principle: all content benefits from editing. The author, whether a verbal or visual one, is almost always too involved with the material to see how it can be best adapted to another form. And the design and production processes are also critical to making the best book possible; one thing [that] I think is in danger of getting lost in self-publishing is the production potential. The physical aspects of books make important, and often subliminal, effects on the reader, but we are getting a much more homogenized offering through the current self-publishing models.
The entire interview is online at the Hey, Hot Shot! blog.
I like the hand drawn Q&As that follow most photo essays on The Selby.
Design Matters Live with Marian Bantjes
Debbie Millman conducts a great interview with the amazing typographer/designer Marian Bantjes.
Elixir: The Video Organism of Pipilotti Rist « The Strange Attractor
Pipilotti Rist is crazy! (in a good way!)
Building on Canvas: Sarah McKenzie and the New American Landscape | Arch Daily
Great interview on a fascinating artist!
VIDEO: Jonah Lehrer on Colbert
Jonah Lehrer, author of Proust was a Neuroscientist and the blog The Frontal Cortex on his new book: How We Decide. Colbert is rude and annoying, but also very funny and apparently nice.
Am I allowed to say that Stephen Colbert - the person, not the character - is the nicest guy? And that he gives every guest a gift card to DonorsChoose, which allows you to buy pencils and paper and books for individual teachers?
