NEWSPAPER BLACKOUT (IN 30 SECONDS)
Found this file on my hard drive: it’s a sped-up video of me flipping through the binder that contains every single blackout poem that went in the book.
A YOUNG MAN IN FINANCE
MOS DEF / K’NAAN AUSTIN CITY LIMITS TAPING
Thursday night was a historic one for Austin City Limits: the studio was officially designated as a rock and roll landmark, and it put on it’s first hip-hop show.
My neighbor Dusty was kind enough to give me one of his space available tickets for the (somewhat grueling) 3-hour double taping—we stood on the floor for the full set, and I learned one thing: it’s near impossible to draw and raise the roof at the same time.
Really rough doodles below.
Mos Def
SAVING UP FOR WHEN THIS IS ALL OVER
Making art is a lonely business. Hell, being alive is a lonely business.
I have been swimming in tweets and nice e-mails from people discovering my work via the 20×200 prints. It’s pretty wonderful. And disorienting. And a major high.
But it will taper off. And next week I will have a dark day when I want to quit, when I wonder why the heck I even bother with this stuff.
That’s why I attach a Gmail label to every nice e-mail I get. (Trollish e-mails get deleted.) When those dark days roll around and I need a boost, I just click on that label and read through a couple.
Then I get back to work.
Try it: instead of keeping a rejection file, keep a praise file. For when you need the lift.
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