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Salome and the Apparition of the Baptist's Head by Gustave Moreau. Watercolor painting, 1876.
Read Salomé by Oscar Wilde. It was alright, mostly because I guess I missed nuances within it from a studied literature point of view - I was just reading it like a book. Very evocative imagery, could do with some imaginative studies of it
How to Practice Art Without Burnout
youtube.comin art school, those students who excel in one area, who use it to get scholarships, gallery-representation, whatever, don’t allow themselves the grace of being bad at any other area.
you get boxed in. let yourself be bad.
but not in the way art college forces. be genuinely bad until you are good. if you are good, get great. find something you’re bad at and do that.
It is what is odd about you that is interesting. If you work hard, you will be able to write like everyone else in your genre, but the result will never be rich as the texture of your own personality. So, don’t think too much about how you are supposed to write, how others do it, or what the conventions demand. Just try to amuse yourself.
Henrik Karlsson • Advice for a Friend Who Wants to Start a Blog
“Be yourself. Whether on Substack or anywhere else, it helps immeasurably to be who you actually are, to let yourself be seen and heard for your true self, and, in that way, to write what only you can write. What does that mean? To write what only you can write? Well, only you can answer that. It is a question to dwell on, to enter into, to sit
... See morethe only reason we love our screens so much is because they allow us to notice with (too much) ease.
it’s noticing that releases dopamine; an evolutionary skill that has been corrupted by media devs and tech giants.
when you see a thousand comments pointing out the same thing on whatever piece of short form content lured them in, they are all
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