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Daily Stoic interview
I drove out to Bastrop a few weeks ago to record an interview for Daily Stoic with my friend Ryan Holiday. We talked about Stoicism, art, parenting, and more.
Personally, I’m more inspired by Zen Buddhism than Stoicism, which is why I was happy Ryan looked a little more to the East for Stillness is the Key. (Shunryu Suzuki’s Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind speaks more to my artistic practice than any Stoic text, but I’ve read Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations several times and I really dig Seneca’s On the Shortness of Life.)
You can watch the interview here, or, if you’re more of a podcast person, you can hear Ryan tell the story about the first afternoon we met and how a man full of road rage threw a Big Gulp at my car!
False lines
After doing a lot of blind contour drawings I’ve started noticing when I make false lines — lines that seem like they should be there, but aren’t based on actual looking.
This happened last night when I was watching a William Kentridge documentary and found myself filling in features on his face after the screen switched from a shot of him talking.
It’s not about a line not looking right, exactly, a false line does not feel right when you make it.
Once you train yourself to notice false lines and that icky feeling you get from making them, you push yourself to go back to looking harder.
There must be a correlation here with writing. We use the same term — “lines” — to describe units of words across the page.
How do we know when we’ve written a false line?
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