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an interesting phenomenon sprang up at the signing table. People started handing us money.
Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help
People started using me to help one another. I wrote blogs about body image and watched discussions and confessions explode in the comments, because people (of all genders) felt safe talking to one another.
Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help
Dignity, collaboration, exchange, vulnerability, reciprocity, mutual respect, comfort, love. The top-voted comment on the blog, from a reader named Marko
Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help
some paid a dollar, some paid a hundred dollars in a gesture of symbolic congratulations. It worked.
Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help
The video went up, “unflattering” belly and all, and I told the whole story to the blog. The label considered this an act of war, and in a way, it was. It was the first time I’d publicly complained about our relationship. Then something unexpected happened. A few people posted pictures of their own bellies—some fat, some thin, some hairy, some with
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Then there’s “Maximal DIY,” which is more about expansion and asking. The emphasis is on collectivism; you throw the problem out to your circles to see what solutions will arise.
Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help
As we forged along, the band made an art out of asking for help—from our housemates, from our friends, from our fans, from our family, from anybody who’d give it.
Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help
musician getting in touch directly. This is something that big stores like Amazon would never do.
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which the artist can freely share their talents and directly feel the reverberations of their artistic gifts to their community, and make a living doing that. In other words, it works best when everybody feels seen.