« After the Midas bash | Main | Top Ten Geek Business Myths » "The idea is more important than the object."The title of this post is one of two quotes that Bazooka posted yesterday, but he says the second (posted below) is more important... [Link] After abstract expressionism, a lot of artists haven't been trained to manipulate material. Instead, they've been taught that what they're supposed to manipulate is concepts or ideas. To me, this is absolutely responsible for a lot of weaknesses in artists' production at this point. I'm an advocate of a return to very fundamental, very basic studio practices, which means that you first spend a lot of your time trying to figure out what materials will do, and in the process of figuring that out, you figure out what to do with them. [...] Do writers get away with poor construction if their ideas are compelling? They shouldn't. I've been guilty of this though — my first draftism, dismissing craft and publishing poor constructions, focusing on getting the word out without enough attention to the power and clarity of the piece. Easy to screw up when you don't have an editor... as I was reminded via a recent experience with an editor whose feedback significantly improved the final deliverable (a brief article about danah boyd, which will be included in the first issue of the new SXSW magazine). jon posted this at 9:34 AM |
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