Motivating myself to broaden my poasting formats
An argument for audio + video
Motivating myself to broaden my poasting formats
It made me think of Volant Lee, the great journalist of the Fifty-Second Street Network, who said that’s how you ought to look into a camera. If you focused on the lens, you’d appear dull, glazed; but if you focused beyond the lens, onto some deeper plane, your eyes would take on a different density: they would grip the viewer.
Robin Sloan • Moonbound: A Novel
A world in which artists think like entrepreneurs, he writes in the Atlantic, is one where “You’re a musician and a photographer and a poet; a storyteller and a dancer and a designer ... which means that you haven’t got time for your 10,000 hours in any of your chosen media. But technique or expertise is not the point. The point is versatility. Lik... See more
Rebecca Jennings • Everybody Has to Self-Promote Now. Nobody Wants To.
A world in which artists think like entrepreneurs, he writes in the Atlantic, is one where “You’re a musician and a photographer and a poet; a storyteller and a dancer and a designer ... which means that you haven’t got time for your 10,000 hours in any of your chosen media. But technique or expertise is not the point. The point is versatility. Lik... See more
Rebecca Jennings • Everybody Has to Self-Promote Now. Nobody Wants To.
I can doodle
There are many people born out of step with the times. If you read poetry you’re 150 years too late (at least). If you enjoy novels, you’re about 75-100 years too late. If you like cinema as an art form, 30 years too late.
The future is audio and especially visual content, just conversation, increasingly trivial. It will contribute to the ongoing ... See more
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