Express an Idea Before You Choose a Medium

This post is by Joshua Lundquist. “Express an idea before you choose a medium,” would be a quote from me if I were addressing a bunch of young artistic types in an auditorium somewhere… But really, that is how I feel.  That is what I keep telling myself.  I don’t want to limit myself or [...]

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What does Your Childhood Reveal about what You Should be Doing Now?

In September I traveled to San Francisco to attend Cheryl Dolan‘s Platinum Presence workshop. It was pretty magical. I met some really amazing women, and I learned a lot of techniques that helped me prepare for my seminar. But the whole weekend was pretty revelatory. One of the exercises she had us do — the [...]

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Why You Must Simply Begin

Editor’s note: this is a guest post by Kylie Bellard. You spend hours mulling over ideas in your head. You lie in bed at night, electrified with excitement for tomorrow, when you’ll make your plans real. You weigh the pros and cons of starting one project over another, uncertain about which passion needs your attention [...]

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What it Means to be an Amateur

There’s nothing like a peaceful lake with the airy sounds of recorder music, and long conversations with your mom, to bring out your pensive side. Before leaving for music camp, someone on Twitter asked me what I would be learning there. It struck me as an odd question, and I actually had to think about [...]

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What Would You do with 24 Hours of Free Time?

What would you do if you had 24 hours of Free Time? This was the question I found myself answering last weekend. The seed was planted a few months back, when one of the Puttypeeps in the Tribe approached me with an idea: what if, as a community, we pulled an allnighter and worked on [...]

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