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Ambition
This blackout is featured at the top of today’s newsletter, “Designed to break your heart.”
What I know about writing a newsletter
I had a nice conversation with Sarah Fay about the art of writing a newsletter.
Small things get big, big things get small
In my letter, “On working bigger (or not),” I shared some notes on scale, reduction, and enlargement, including an old theory I have about the web:
Online, big work gets smaller, while smaller work stays the same or gets bigger.
You can use this to your advantage. For most of my career, I have worked essentially in miniature, with almost every image I create happening in a small sketchbook or a page no bigger than a piece of typing paper.
It occurred to me very early on that if you take a little sketchbook doodle, scan it, and put it up on your blog, you essentially don’t lose anything in the transmission. (Unlike, say, looking at a tiny reproduction of Raphael’s School of Athens in an art history textbook or something.)
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The record store guy
A true story. Featured in my letter, “One thing after another.”
What I do when I finish a notebook
From my letter about what I do when I finish a notebook and start a new one:
The next silly ritual is selecting a “guardian spirit” for the inside cover of the notebook — a picture of someone to sort of give the notebook their blessing, start a vibe. I’m a Gemini (remember, we’re getting silly, here) so I often pick two spirits to sort of set up a creative tension. For my summer notebook I picked a picture of Napoleon (I was reading War and Peace) and a picture of Michael Palin with his bicycle from a copy of The Idler…
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