Comments on: the chimneypiece

By: jlb

jlb — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 01:10:13 +0000

I occationally have people tell me that I should be a professional photographer, and I have never been able to verbalize why I don’t want to be. Now I know that the answer is “my photos are not chimneypieces.” Thanks!
jan

By: hugh

hugh — Sat, 14 Aug 2004 22:39:48 +0000

Nicole, the person you could’ve been “obnoxious” to, Cliffab, I deleted his post.
I have no time for sophomoric little nonentities who want to shit in my living room, especially when they don’t offer to show any of their own work to back their salvos up.
Any fool can talk the talk.

By: Love Detective

Love Detective — Sat, 14 Aug 2004 21:31:30 +0000

Art & Commerce.
When they meet too intimately, one perverts the other.
Business is not personal; art too much so.
Not, “Alas,” but, “Thank goodness!“
Balance is what balance does.

By: Gatsby

Gatsby — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 15:22:12 +0000

Hate to be obnoxious twice in one day, but I just wanted you to know I’ll be sending my writing teacher a link to this website. He’ll love it.
Also…have you ever read _The War of Art_? Just curious.

By: Woodstock

Woodstock — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 09:24:54 +0000

Maybe it’s because my birthday is so close, or maybe it’s that whole Zen thing (when the student is ready, the teacher will appear) but these writings on how to be creative are the second thing in less that 24 hours that has made me scream “Yes! That’s it!” and I have to thank you for them.
And even if they are old ideas, sometimes the oldest ideas need to be reuttered so that we remember exactly what they were about instead of assuming we know.
Thanks, Hugh. Please keep writing and drawing.
I’m going to look for my crayons now.

By: Brett Stuckel

Brett Stuckel — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 01:34:35 +0000

mr. macleod is most certainly down with the funk.

By: kiriska

kiriska — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 01:26:06 +0000

lol, that’s a touching story. Especially the end.

By: m0nk

m0nk — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 01:17:28 +0000

Being a geek and creating software allows me to have it both ways. I create stuff that I both get to keep and share (I will avoid going into a long soapbox moment about free software, etc).
The creativity stuff here has been great. I am getting the new group of hires to read it, and watching their reactions tells me a lot about their creative potential…
th3 m0nK
For some of us, its NOT old ideas in newspeak…

By: nicole yates

nicole yates — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 00:47:19 +0000

I could say some nasty things about the above poster, but, alas, I will not. It is people like that that do not understand how creative people not only think, but operate, making us feel like we aren’t on the track at the right speed as everyone else. You are on no one else’s timeline but your own.

By: hugh macleod

hugh macleod — Wed, 11 Aug 2004 19:35:41 +0000

bc, I think it’s better to have “not quite enough time” than “too much time”. But that’s just me.
Time is used better when it’s in short supply.

By: bc

bc — Wed, 11 Aug 2004 19:16:29 +0000

Yeah, it’s truly wonderful no longer teaching fine English lit to undergraduates. Just pushing the furniture around as a lawyer covers the household expense, and gives me [not quite enough] leisure to read and write and draw.
Another hazard, especially among young women, is to become instantly emotionally attached to the dramatis personae in their workplaces, transposing an archetype of Family. Then when it’s not reciprocal, Big Shock. It’s Work not Love, Folks.

By: Rasmus Lasthein

Rasmus Lasthein — Wed, 11 Aug 2004 17:42:09 +0000

Just wanted to say thanx for all of the “How To Be Creative”. I have just finished reading them and am amazed of the timing in me stumbling on to these truly inspiring thoughts. For months I have been caught up in trying to make peace between my “Crayon voice” and my “Cash voice”. Now I can finally relax and let the juice flow free.
THANK YOU (and the Universe for leading me to your site)