Art as a career
Meanwhile, some of the most serious people I know do their serious thing gratis and make their loot somewhere else. My dad, whose photographs sit at the top of every Experimental History post, quit his job at the newspaper and went to work as a postal carrier instead. Why? As he puts it: “I could afford better lenses delivering mail than I could... See more
Adam Mastroianni • Surely You Can Be Serious
While I do enjoy my work in startups, I sometimes think of it as “fundraising” for the creative work I do. The world doesn’t usually fund the things it needs most (art). So sometimes you have to find a way to fund it yourself.