As an amateur songwriter and musician, one of my favorite interviews during SXSW this year was with Chris Sampson, a songwriting professor and Vice Dean for Contemporary Music at USC, who uses my books in his classroom. The whole interview is only available to Grammy Pro members, but there are some clips below.
July 2nd is the middle of the year. Half of the year is gone, half of the year is still to be.
One of the reasons I like keeping a logbook is that it makes time tangible. Turn the pages, and you can feel the days pass.
Sometimes you flip back through the pages and they feel wasted. But flip forward, and you still have plenty of blank pages to fill.
Onwards!
I’ve been on my friend Mike Monteiro‘s podcast, Let’s Make Mistakes, twice now.
The first show was called “No One Destroys My Family But Me,” and we talked about being dads:
The second show was called “Church and State,” and it’s us ranting about art, design, and creativity:
I’m currently working on the forward to Mike’s forthcoming book, You’re My Favorite Client, which is the sequel to his brilliant book, Design Is A Job.
The Russians don’t screw around. Like they did for the Russian translation of Steal Like An Artist, Mann, Ivanov, & Ferber have turned Show Your Work! into a bigger, badder, hardback! You can get a copy here.
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