Just leaving this here for future reference.
The trope that a day job takes away from your art or your hustle is stupid. There was a great exhibition at the Blanton Museum a couple years ago about artists who had day jobs. I wrote 3.5 books while I was the Director of Marketing at American Apparel. I started my own marketing company while I was a writer. I have
Source: 37 Pieces of Career Advice I Wish I’d Known Earlier – RyanHoliday.net
From a commencement speech at Harvard by Charlie Munger (How to Guarantee a Life of Misery):
My third prescription for misery is to go down and stay down when you get your first, second, third severe reverse in the battle of life. Because there is so much adversity out there, even for the lucky and wise, this will guarantee that, in due course, you will be permanently mired in misery. Ignore at all cost the lesson contained in the accurate epitaph written for himself by Epictetus: “Here lies Epictetus, a slave, maimed in body, the ultimate in poverty, and favoured by Gods.”
The rest is pretty good too.
https://www.space.com/barbenheimer-star-defies-explanation
The newly discovered Barbenheimer Star exploded in a supernova billions of years ago, leaving behind a cloud of unusual elements in its wake. (Image credit: University of Chicago/SDSS-V/Melissa Weiss) Scientists have discovered evidence of a massive star from the early universe that does not fit with our current understanding of the cosmos.
Epic: The Musical is a loose adaptation of Homer’s “The Odyssey” by Jorge Rivera-Herrans, who wrote the music and lyrics and also orchestrated and produced the tracks. His song clips and process videos have gone viral on social media with over 60 million views across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. The yet-to-be-released musical also has an active Discord fan community of over 30,000 people who share fanart, memes, fan theories, cover songs, positive affirmations, and tattoos of the lyrics.
Free to listen on Spotify, or get the ones that have been released on Bandcamp:
https://jayherrans.bandcamp.com/album/epic-the-troy-saga-original-concept-album
A link filled Monday, of stuff that interested me this week. Not much musing going on is there. Just wanted to share good stuff. We all need that don’t we. See you next week.
Had an MRI this week. The first in a couple of years. Seems that Northern Light has a newer machine, that is close to a CTScan machine. Not as tight , and with a shorter barrel. Makes it a lot less claustrophobic. Easy Peasy. Still loud though. The advance in just a couple of years was great for me, who doesn’t like tight places.
Working on a new painting. It’s of our old house that we lived in for 18 years, before we had to move to Bangor, when I got sick.
That’s just a few hours work. Roughing in colors and form.
Here’s some rules from Sister Corita Kent:
The Rules
- Find a place you trust, and then try trusting it for a while.
- General duties of a student — pull everything out of your teacher; pull everything out of your fellow students.
- General duties of a teacher — pull everything out of your students.
- Consider everything an experiment.
- Be self-disciplined — this means finding someone wise or smart and choosing to follow them. To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self-disciplined is to follow in a better way.
- Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail; there’s only make.
- The only rule is work. If you work, it will lead to something. It’s the people who do all of the work all of the time who eventually catch on to things.
- Don’t try to create and analyze at the same time. They’re different processes.
- Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It’s lighter than you think.
- We’re breaking all the rules. Even our own rules. And how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities.
Helpful hints
- Always be around.
- Come or go to everything.
- Always go to classes.
- Read anything you can get your hands on.
- Look at movies carefully, often.
- Save everything. It might come in handy later.
Think that’ll do it for this week.
This answer during a Q&A with Austin Kleon really hit me. The rest of the talk, and Q&A is pretty good also.
Don’t get addicted to the Brain Crack. Get it out.
Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.
–Jasper Johns
