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personalcanon.com
i'm teaching 2 workshops this summer and you're invited

I use the word 'interlocutor' to describe someone who is invested in your work and helps you understand it more deeply, but is not directly involved in the way a collaborator would be. Interlocutors can help draw out what matters most to us (in a particular project, or in our overall practice).

— Celine Nguyen
1d ago

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. To a man who is indifferent to beauty, the Sistine ceiling is only paint on plaster.

2d ago
jefftweedy
Dreams (Fleetwood Mac cover)

I love learning songs that are challenging to me, vocally. And this one is right at the edge of my upper range, right where it crosses over into falsetto. That's actually kind of a fun place to sing.

1w ago

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole life to reading my works. But this is hardly ever the case; he usually also has a job, a family, and other amusements. This is obviously a sign of insufficient seriousness.

1w ago
currincy
How Peter Frampton Changed Tom Morello’s Life

There's an arrangement trick that he does in 'Do You Feel Like We Do' that I lifted for Rage Against the Machine. And it's basically where there's a long breakdown where the rock power goes away, the title of the song is said over and over again, then it comes crashing in with a completely monstrous rock power that raises the hairs on your arms and makes you want to jump around the room. Well, that's the formula for pretty much every Rage Against the Machine song.

1w ago

We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

1w ago
longreads.com
The Inside Story of the Athens Music Scene

When they built the mall in Athens, all the big stores left downtown, so downtown was open and available for people to do whatever they wanted.

1w ago
themarginalian.org
Very Necessary Qualifications of a Great Storyteller

All great storytelling — be it a novel or a poem, a film or a song — enchants us precisely because it swings open the door to a world distinctly other than our own, whose very otherness clarifies ours, returns us to it magnified and annealed.

1w ago

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius.

2w ago

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

2w ago

We arrive at truth, not by the reason alone, but by the whole man. Genius is the recovery of childhood at will—the power to live, think, and act in childhood again; so all great poets are necessarily children, in the sense that they retain the power of wonder and the capacity to see the world as if for the first time.

2w ago

The task of the excellent poet is not to say the things that can be said about nature, but to say the things that cannot be said about it.

2w ago
whyisthisinteresting
The Monday Media Diet with Alfred Tong

It can't have feelings. It doesn't have taste, instinct or chemistry. Those things remain profoundly human, and they're essential to good writing. But AI is brilliant at structure and organisation.

3w ago

The task of the excellent poet is not to say the things that can be said about nightingales, but to say something that has never been said about anything.

3w ago

The best way to destroy the last vestige of intellectual freedom is to assume that it doesn't matter, or that the problems it solves are unimportant because they aren't commercial. The truth is that the best part of intellectual work is never commercial.

3w ago

The mind does not work by way of ideas, but by way of passionate preferences; we do not see nature, we see our idea of nature.

3w ago

The man of science must work with method and system, but the artist works by inspiration, and what the artist produces by inspiration the man of science can explain by analysis only after the fact.

3w ago
whyisthisinteresting
The AI Mirror Edition

AI is a mirror, not a crystal ball. It reflects ourselves back to us because it was trained on our words. When we wonder why it's boring or corporate, it's because we're boring and corporate!

3w ago
whyisthisinteresting
Maria Shollenbarger At Large: A WITI Wednesday Interview

The digital world was quite loose and Wild West then; you could jump into the fray as a marketing/commercial person, like I did, and centrifuge around and get spat out the other side as something totally different—a writer/editor, in my case.

3w ago

The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, And if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.

3w ago
themarginalian.org
Middle Age and the Art of Self-Renewal: An Extraordinary Letter from Pioneering Education Reformer Elizabeth Peabody

The perilous time for the most highly gifted is not youth. The holy sensibilities of genius — for all the sensibilities of genius are holy — keep their possessor essentially unhurt as long as animal spirits and the idea of being young last; but the perilous season is middle age, when a false wisdom tempts them to doubt the divine origin of the dreams of their youth; when the world comes to them, not with the song of the siren, against which all books warn us, but as a wise old man counselling acquiescence in what is below them.

4w ago
jefftweedy
Baby Where You Are (Ted Lucas cover)

I'm sharing a cover of a Ted Lucas song today, using the overdubbing capabilities of an iPhone, which are rudimentary but fun.

4w ago

The best way to think about the future is to invent it. Most people don't like to think about the future because they're not sure they can control it, but if you invent it, then you've already thought about it.

4w ago
themarginalian.org
The Enemy Outside and the Enemy Within: Audre Lorde’s Antidote to Despair

I do not have to win in order to know my dreams are valid, I only have to believe in a process of which I am a part. My work kept me alive this past year, my work and the love of women. They are inseparable from each other. In the recognition of the existence of love lies the answer to despair. Work is that recognition given voice and name.

4w ago
whyisthisinteresting
The Creative Parent Edition

Unlike my children, my books are cruelly unforgiving of my weaknesses, failings, and flaws of character. Most of all, my books, unlike my children, do not love me back.

1mo ago
jefftweedy
I Wish I Was Your Mother (Mott the Hoople cover)

Such an evocative and weird lyric. Beautifully empathetic and sad. I tried to do an acoustic version, where I don't really scream it, but it just doesn't communicate. So I had to stand up and sing full-throated.

1mo ago
themarginalian.org
3 Kinds of Loneliness and 4 Kinds of Forever

Everything of beauty and substance that we make — every poem, every painting, every friendship — is an outstretched hand reaching out from one loneliness to another, reaching into the mute mouth of forever for the vowels of a common language to howl our requiem for the evanescent now.

1mo ago
longreads.com
What Will It Take to Get AI Out of Schools?

part of the magic of how kids learn is that they have less knowledge of what they're going to experience and fewer expectations about what's going to be relevant. They don't have that adult filter of strategically extracting things from their experience, and so they retain a lot of unexpected details that adults would find irrelevant. That allows them to be creative in ways that adults are not creative.

1mo ago
honest-broker.com
The Fantastic Nicknames of Jazz

If you're a jazz fan, see how many of the nicknames in the poem below you can identify. And even if you're not a jazz fan, keep reading—you will still enjoy this.

1mo ago

To know the world one must construct it. One does not go for a walk in order to walk but to construct the world at each step.

1mo ago

The mind of a thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bazaar encumbered with rich but cumbersome and never to be used articles.

1mo ago
3quarksdaily.com
Dancing in New York: Variations on a Theme

Its power, like that of Bach's series of variations, accumulates slowly, moment by moment. By the end, as the original theme returns, you are left with the feeling of having experienced a great arc, a fully realized idea explored in all its possibilities and permutations.

1mo ago
themarginalian.org
The Force and the Flower: Poet and Potter M.C. Richards on Creativity

Life is best understood and practiced as an art, the way that art is understood and practiced. We rely on inspiration, feeling for materials, knowledge of how to put things together well, patience, physical strength and awareness that we are part of a process which we don't know much about yet but which we live within and are sustained by.

1mo ago

The mind of man is capable of anything—because everything is in it, all the past, all the future, all the possibilities of existence.

1mo ago
themarginalian.org
Wilderness, Solitude, and Creativity: Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent’s Century-Old Meditations on Art and Life During Seven Months on a Small Alaskan Island

Often I think that however much I draw or paint, or however well, I am not an artist as art is generally understood. The abstract is meaningless to me save as a fragment of the whole, which is life itself… It is the ultimate which concerns me, and all physical, all material things are but an expression of it… We are part and parcel of the big plan of things. We are simply instruments recording in different measure our particular portion of the infinite.

1mo ago

The task, then, is not so much to see what no one has yet seen, but to think what nobody has yet thought about that which everybody sees.

1mo ago
noahpinion.blog
Is China's soft power really rising, or is America's just crumbling?

China is a deeply repressive nation, with universal surveillance, fine-grained media and speech control, and ubiquitous censorship. That's the kind of society where only anodyne, cautious artistry can flourish, except in tiny subcultural pockets too small for the government to worry about.

1mo ago

The poet only asks to get his head into the world, but the world always strikes back and prevents him from seeing anything.

1mo ago

The natural object is always the adequate symbol. I naturally dress my thoughts in pictures.

1mo ago
themarginalian.org
Enchantment and the Courage of Joy: René Magritte on the Antidote to the Banality of Pessimism

Life is wasted when we make it more terrifying, precisely because it is so easy to do so. It is an easy task, because people who are intellectually lazy are convinced that this miserable terror is "the truth", that this terror is knowledge of the "extra-mental" world. This is an easy way out, resulting in a banal explanation of the world as terrifying.

2mo ago

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