What I Read This Week: June 15, 2013

June 15, 2013

Inked by april

You might notice that this week’s reading is a bit skewed. You say obsessive, but I call that research. Come, walk into this labyrinth of April’s very specific interests. It’s not a weird place AT ALL if you accept that there are things you won’t understand.

Real, Actual Books

• Reading before bed: Chroma by Derek Jarman
• Sitting in a reading pile: Interaction of Color by Josef Albers
• Working on: I Just Like to Make Things by Lilla Rogers
• Digesting: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon
• Forgot about: Margaret Kilgallen: In the Sweet Bye & Bye
• Made something from: Print Workshop: Hand-Printing Techniques and Truly Original Projects by Christine Schmidt
• Eating up: Manage Your Day-To-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind by Jocelyn K. Glei
• Loving: Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality by Scott Belsky
• Tearing through: Craft, Inc. Revised Edition: The Ultimate Guide to Turning Your Creative Hobby into a Successful Business by Meg Mateo Ilasco

On the Web

• Sexism’s Puzzling Stamina by Frank Bruni, “All in all it was a festival of teachable moments, raising our consciousness into the stratosphere. So where are we, fully 22 years later? We’re listening to Saxby Chambliss, a senator from Georgia, attribute sexual abuse in the military to the ineluctable “hormone level” of virile young men in proximity to nubile young women.”
• What Happens to Women Who Are Denied Abortions? “What, Foster wondered, were the consequences of having to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term? Did it take a higher psychological or economic toll than having an abortion? Or was the reverse true — did the new baby make up for any social or financial difficulties?”
• Quit Fucking Asking Me Questions: A Refresher Course by Lindy West, “It’s not black people’s responsibility to be your personal racism tutor, and it’s not women’s responsibility to take your moist little hand and give you a guided tour through the oppressive, old-timey limitations that circumscribe our lives.”
• Department of Pathology – Creighton University on True Crime Diary, also In Their Words, and Lindy
• Defusing an F-Bomb by Edward Lichty on Medium
• Watched: David Letterman – Amy Sedaris: Funny Godmother
• Watched: Rabbit Rescue featuring Amy Sedaris
• Amy Sedaris interview on the AV Club, “And I still do that today. If I’m making a card for someone, I’ll be like, “Simplify it,” and just make it as simple and uncomplicated as possible. And it always looks better.”
• “I Decorate As If I Owned a Child” Amy Sedaris in NY Magazine
• Amy Sedaris Likes To Watch You Cry
• Amy Sedaris Interviews Her Best Friend and Her Worst Enemy: Amy Sedaris
• How Not to Be Alone by Jonathan Safran Foer, “Technology celebrates connectedness, but encourages retreat. The phone didn’t make me avoid the human connection, but it did make ignoring her easier in that moment, and more likely, by comfortably encouraging me to forget my choice to do so. My daily use of technological communication has been shaping me into someone more likely to forget others. The flow of water carves rock, a little bit at a time. And our personhood is carved, too, by the flow of our habits.”
• Here’s the Game of Thrones/’Dick In a Box’ Mashup You Knew Was Coming
• Chef+Tech newsletter
• A Bueller? tapestry
• Yes, I watched all of the Amy Sedaris YouTube channel
• Watched: Sunday Video: Voodoo S’mores with Amy Sedaris from Rookie Mag
• Watched: Disneyland – 4.25 Excerpt – An Adventure in Art
• The Awful Truth About Jogging by robicellis on Medium, “Now I have to train to run, AND to force myself to poop on demand. Running is hard, guys.”
• I’m Going Back To School! Lilla Rogers School: Make Art That Sells
• Do What You Love interview with Lilla Rogers
• another 100 days of sketching by Tammie C Bennett
• make art that sells – week one round-up
• MAKE ART THAT SELLS WITH LILLA ROGERS
• Make Art That Sells – Assignment 1 Completed
• My Studio Spaces and Part 1 of the Make art that Sells Experience!
• Make Art That Sells on Moon! And Sparrow
• I Rented a Zoo by Heather Armstrong
• Are coders worth it? by James Somers, “Web start-up companies are like play-companies. They stand in relation to real companies the way those cute little make-believe baking stations stand in relation to kitchens.”
• The Slow Blog Manifesto by Todd Sieling, “Slow Blogging is a willingness to remain silent amid the daily outrages and ecstasies that fill nothing more than single moments in time, switching between banality, crushing heartbreak and end-of-the-world psychotic glee in the mere space between headlines.”
• I spent an hour with The Oprah Whisperer. (Oh yeah!) Here’s what I learned about telling a soundbite-sized story by Alexandra Franzen, “How to tell a soundbite-sized story — for TV, radio, online video, or short-burst (and seriously-efficient) writing. 1. State the problem… 2. Make a proposition… 3. Anchor the lessons. Quickly zip through + announce each of the points you’re going to hit, in the hot minutes ahead…. 4. Deliver the lessons… 5. Sum it all up.”
• How to have a fun + fascinating conversation with ANYONE. by Alexandra Franzen, “Hi. I’m Alex. What was the BEST part of your day?… If you want to have a fun, fascinating + opportunity-generating conversation, you don’t need a “strategy.” You just need to ask a question that nobody else is asking.”
• What is Breather? It’s peace and quiet on-demand. (New start-up by Julien Smith!)

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