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ART vs. LATE STAGE CAPITALISM
ART vs. LATE STAGE CAPITALISM

Capitalism is no longer an engine of modernity; it is the engine of modernity. With thinning ranks of winners taking disproportionally larger and larger slices of material wealth, the environment for most creatives has reached a crisis point. 

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NO SUCH THING AS WRITERS BLOCK
NO SUCH THING AS WRITERS BLOCK

If you care about creating anything, care enough that you actually want to spend your precious, fleeting time working to make something worthwhile, there is no such thing as writers block so long as your motivation to create is greater than all of your reasons not to.

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TRANSIENCE AND LOVE: A CASE FOR ART
TRANSIENCE AND LOVE: A CASE FOR ART

 The real value of art is in its ephemerality. Yes, I hope you desire what I create, and yes, I hope to continue to make a living creating things. But the value of art as social function worth doing is the exquisite bright light it shines directly onto the moment of its creation. In its best expression, we can only hope that work gets rescued from its own private steamer trunk so it can cast light on others.

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FOOTPRINTS 20th Anniversary Part II -- CREATING A ROUND MOVIE
FOOTPRINTS 20th Anniversary Part II -- CREATING A ROUND MOVIE

I tried my best to explain what we were doing, but I was also conscious not to risk over-promising our potential, considering just how much we didn’t know ourselves. For several of our principal stakeholders the tension started to grow uncomfortable. It was hard to trust my assertion that “we’re onto something”, even though nobody had seen anything like the thing we were onto. I think we managed to survive this tension due to the simultaneously palpable excitement had started to build in the shared production spaces where we were working.

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FOOTPRINTS--The Twentieth Anniversary
FOOTPRINTS--The Twentieth Anniversary

Ideas are funny things. They do not always show up on time, and they often don’t show up when it’s convenient either. I vividly recall the moment to this day: sometime in the middle of the holiday week, late at night, a simple thought came to mind. The moment the idea crystalized, it released something new and thrilling, effectively setting off a cascade of events and discoveries.

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