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“When things get tough, this is what you should do: Make good art. I’m serious. Husband runs off with a politician — make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by a mutated boa constrictor — make good art. IRS on your trail — make good art. Cat exploded — make good art. Someone on the Internet thinks what you’re doing is stupid or evil or it’s all been done before — make good art. Probably things will work out somehow, eventually time will take the sting away, and that doesn’t even matter. Do what only you can do best: Make good art. Make it on the bad days, make it on the good days, too.
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Stalin was their drug: Tractor Drivers (1939) | Obskura
“Tractor Drivers is a musical film. I simply love the fact that even the musical genre, always defined by escapism it offered to audiences, in the Soviet Union served propaganda purposes. If musical numbers in Hollywood musicals were usually just spectacular disruptions of storyline meant to entertain, in the Soviet musical they were ideological interludes, used to remind the viewer about his duties as a Soviet citizen. This crazy dance sequence, for instance, shows how relentless a Soviet worker is – after ploughing the soil all day, he is tripping it away like nothing happened:”
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Bogotá Reacts to Critical, Complimentary Posts | truly, nomadly, deeply
Interesting to see at least a bit of the metrics starting impact online authoring . . .
“Originally published on Medium.com, in two days both posts garnered an astonishing 58,790 views (as of 8 p.m. Wednesday night) and 34,668 full reads. This blog saw a spillover increase in traffic of massive proportion. Twitter is still buzzing as I type, with the “Hate” article vastly outperforming the “Love” column. “
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‘It is far easier to travel than to write about it’ | truly, nomadly, deeply
“As to those literary qualifications which are acquired by habits of writing, and which are so important to an author, my African life has not been favorable to the growth of such accomplishments but quite the reverse; it has made composition irksome and laborious. I think I would rather cross the African continent again than write another book. It is far easier to travel than to write about it.
—from the original Introduction to Missionary Travels in South Africa (1857)”
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» Bound in human skin Houghton Library Blog
» Bound in human skin Houghton Library Blog “A book about the human soul deserved to have a human covering: ” http://t.co/NccOKq4bvE
— Tom Woodward (@twoodwar) May 5, 2014
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“BTW the term for binding in human skin is anthropodermic bibliopegy”
BTW the term for [book] binding in human skin is anthropodermic bibliopegy “BTW the term for binding in human sk… http://t.co/il7tJI9an3— Tom Woodward (@twoodwar) May 5, 2014