Esra
@betho
17 Aralık 2001
75 okur puanı
Ocak 2017 tarihinde katıldı
Save your thefts for later
Keep a swipe file. It’s just what it sounds like—a file to keep track of the stuff you’ve swiped from others. It can be digital or analog—it doesn’t matter what form it takes, as long as it works. You can keep a scrapbook and cut and paste things into it, or you can just take pictures of things with your camera phone.
See something worth stealing? Put it in the swipe file. Need a little inspiration? Open up the swipe file. Newspaper reporters call this a “morgue file” —I like that name even better. Your morgue file is where you keep the dead things that you’ll later reanimate in your
work.
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0-30p: Kontrollü okuyucu 📖
40-70p: Hafif bağımlı 👀
80p+: Geçmiş olsun, kitaplar seni ele geçirmiş 😅
School yourself
Google everything. I mean everything. Google your dreams, Google your problems. Don’t ask a question before you Google it.
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The great thing about dead or remote masters is that they can’t refuse you as an apprentice. You can learn whatever you want from them. They left their lesson plans in their work.
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Climb your own family tree
Marcel Duchamp said,
“I don’t believe in art. I believe in artists. ” This is
actually a pretty good method for studying—if you try to devour the history of your discipline all at once, you’ll choke.
Instead, chew on one thinker—writer, artist, activist, role model—you really love. Study everything there is to know about that thinker. Then find three people that thinker loved, and find out everything about them. Repeat this as many times as you can. Climb up the tree as far as you can go. Once you build your tree, it’s time to start your own branch.
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“Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. ”
—Jim Jarmusch
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