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  • From Where You Dream

    From Where You Dream

    “Art does not come from ideas. Art does not come from the mind. Art comes from the place where you dream. Art comes from your unconscious; it comes from the white hot center of you.” Robert Olen Butler

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  • Love this concept of artist publishing (versus self publishing) from Amelia Greenhall. Putting a mental pin to come back and write more since I’ve finished two of her zines about it.

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    Test

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  • Draft no. 4

    Draft no. 4

    by John McPhee This book is half writing craft / half memoir. Here are some of his gem’s about writing. First, one of the graphs that inspired me to buy the book. I am fascinated how he thinks so visually about his structural process. (The book was second hand and dog eared when I bought […]

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  • Leap Before You Look (2015)

    Leap Before You Look (2015)

    Black Mountain College had an expansive view of art where “artistic exchange” and the “cultural ecosystem” were central. Here are some of my notes from Molesworth’s excellent book Leap Before You Look.

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  • “The act of taking notes in public is a powerful discipline: rather than jotting cryptic notes to myself in a commonplace book, I publish those notes for strangers. This imposes a rigor on the note-taking that makes those notes far more useful to me in years to come.” “Better still: public note-taking is powerfully mnemonic. The […]

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  • Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of the internet A growing number of people are creating individualized, creative sites that eschew the one-size-fits-all look and feel of social media By Tanya Basu MIT Technology Review, September 3, 2020 “These creative reimaginings of blogs have quietly taken nerdier corners of the internet by storm. […]

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  • A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden by Maggie Appleton “A garden is a collection of evolving ideas that aren’t strictly organised by their publication date. They’re inherently exploratory – notes are linked through contextual associations. They aren’t refined or complete – notes are published as half-finished thoughts that will grow and evolve […]

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  • I first heard about this concept from Morgan Harper Nichols, “[Digital gardens] are online spaces where you can collect or share information…an organically grown collection of ideas, resources, and thoughts. It’s a place that you can create online that encourages continuous learning, exploration, and growth, much like tending to a physical garden. It’s a living […]

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