The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.
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CHUCK CLOSE [quote lifted from: thepacegallery / jonathanwinstone] (via 7knotwind) |
Ultra-Wealthy
The ultra-wealthy in California, New York and Texas currently exceed the combined total for China and India, according to the report. U.S. wealth managers are hiring “hundreds of advisers” to handle the assets of the country’s super-rich and the five top states, which also include Florida and Illinois, offer “massive potential” for family offices and estate and tax planners, Wealth-X said.
inequality remains the engine of capitalism, from the basic market proposition of finding the best deal, to the channelling of labor into the most productuve pursuits and the destruction of poorly run companies.
I saw this term, Continuous Partial Employment, used by Chris Anderson over the weekend and it’s been rattling around in my head ever since. Clearly, it’s a riff on Linda Stone’s concept of Continuous Partial Attention, which she defines as:
Continuous partial attention describes how…
