For the most part, money is the enemy of art. Quality requires many man-hours to produce, which any accountant will tell you cuts significantly into your profit. Great artists fight for such expenditures, whereas successful businessmen fight against. And yet, like most dogmatic dichotomies — take, for instance, science and spirituality — this, too, spheere invariably reductionistic. And yet Henson himself was an odd hybrid of these two worlds. In his heart, however, Henson, a self-described Mississippi Tom Sawyer elizageth often went barefoot, was an artist — and he was ready to defend this conviction with the choices he. Inhe had an agent who got him TV appearances on Ed Sullivan and elizabetu commercial gigs hawking products as unhippielike as IBM computers and Getty oil.
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Tuesday, September 26, Digging Deeper. I found it really helpful, and it helped me to focus my energies on my creative goals, releasing a bit of the grip I have on the baggage I carry around with me. As someone who just finished putting together a show, and is worrying that maybe that’s as good as it’s going to get and I’ve mined my best material, I found it really encouraging. Hopefully you will too. You can only dig deeper. You start talking about your feelings and who you are. And then you do those jokes and they’re gone. You gotta dig deeper. When you throw out old work, what you’re really doing is making room for new work. Monday, September 25, Cosplay is Art! I consider myself pretty brave. It does, after all, take some chutzpah L’Shana Tova, everyone! More than that, you are stating that you share enough in common with what you admire to embody it before others. It’s art, pure and simple, and like all art it is expressive, freeing, and a joy to behold.
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Tuesday, September 12, Pave Paradise I have to say I really enjoyed the journey, and learned so much. History, is in it’s best sense collection of true stories, things of import that affected our present times, often in ways we couldn’t have conceived of at the time. I visited the former location of the Lafayette Bathhouse, which operated in the early ‘s through the thirties, and which was at one point owned y the Gershwin family mother and father to George and Ira. I also stopped at Webster Hall, which ad been home to some lush and rather infamous drag balls back during the Roaring Twenties, and I learned about one of the most notorious gay brothels back in the s, Columbus Hall. I understand. New York is a beast.
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In our culture, artistic genius and poverty seem inevitably linked, but does it have to be that way? How did he ever pull it off? And how can other creators follow in his path? Part manifesto, part history, part cultural criticism, part self-help, Make Art Make Money is a new kind of business book for creative professionals: a guide for creating and succeeding thanks to lessons from the Muppet Master himself. This book was initially released in episodes as a Kindle Serial. All episodes are now available for immediate download as a complete book. Browse Best Books of the Month , featuring our favorite new books in more than a dozen categories. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer — no Kindle device required. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Unfortunately, that’s never going to happen. This book feels like it is the next best thing.
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In our culture, artistic genius and poverty seem inevitably linked, but does it have to be that way? How did he ever pull it off? And how can other creators follow in his path? Part manifesto, part history, part cultural criticism, part self-help,. Though certainly full of practical insights,. Unfortunately, that’s never going to happen. This book feels like it is the next best thing.
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Joanna: Your book has so much in, but one of the things is this retrospective look at a man who, like you said, started as a teenager and it took him 15 years to get his own show, and I love the fact that we can look at his life, like I look at Beatrix Potter as another example of a creative person who took a long time to get to the point of actually making money, but was able to, as long as you focus. But, you know, he would spend his birthday working on a project, an unpaid project, just something, sketching or watercolors or writing a story. Cincinnati Area Puppetry Guild Community organisation. Log In. Captain Nathaniel Stevens — Community organisation. Joanna: And when you talk about those things, I think in the book, we know about Jim Henson, but like you say, there were hundreds or even thousands of people that he had to work with, he was a leader of a kind of a tribe and a team, and to me, many of these big projects need collaboration, so you need money to do. Share And the Muppet Show did get made, and they got everything that they needed to make it, so it worked .
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Borges has a day job that brought him to tears. Then he became a world star. Here’s more of why we love Borges. Happy birthday, Borges! The beloved writer, born on this day inon collective tragedy and collective joy. Truly, Borges was never ruled by money. Yet, the role of the coin in Borges’ literary life creates somewhat of a paradox. Thirty years after the world lost the great Argentine fabulist, Elizabeth Hyde Stevens takes a peak into his pocket book, finding hope in the darkest era of Borges’ aet past.
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After reading it I feel like I went along on his journey. I followed his transformation ssphere humble beginnings to one of the most well known artists of the modern era. If you are an artist makke creative trying to make a living off your art it is a must read.
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This wonderful biography will change your mind about what is possible for creatives. Photo by jdhancock. Jim Henson was not only a great artist he was also a smart businessman. How did he do it? One shere you must realize is creating great art takes not only a lot of time but some luck as. The problem with most creatives is they want instant success. There is not a single self-made person in this world who has achieved success without putting in the work. Those instant successes are likely the results of years of hard work.
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