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Why We Must Make Art That We Must Make

“What I’m saying is this: trust your audience enough to make something real. Something that reflects actual human experience, not a focus-grouped approximation of it. That can be joyful. That can be funny. That can be wildly entertaining. But it has to come from a place of genuine necessity—from artists who need to say this […]

A Two-Sided “Personal Glossary” Of Productivity Terms

“Productivity. Definition 1: The religion of people afraid to ask they’re producing, or why… the productive day is the good day, the unproductive day a moral failure requiring analysis and improvement strategies. Definition 2: What revealed itself as something different during that evening in Wyoming when I saw on a boulder the size of a […]

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– Peter Nilsson

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