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May 19, 2013, 12:08pm Comments
What’s the story behind these insane photos of Marina Abramović? For the answer, consult art and fashion quarterly, BULLETT Magazine, who shot and ran the images:Read the full story here, and mark your calendar for December 2013, when The Life and Death of Marina Abramović makes its U.S. debut at the Armory.Two days before her BULLETT photo shoot, on a national holiday in Spain, Marina Abramović writes an email from her suite at the Tryp Madrid Ambassador Hotel requesting the following items: “1 oversize white men’s button-up shirt, 1 simple large glass of water, 1 white candle, and 1 very sexy man in a tuxedo (whom I can potentially carry around).” These are, of course, perfectly reasonable requests, but there are more. Abramović would also like “2 ravens and 1 eagle and 1 baby tiger.”
May 19, 2013, 12:08pm Comments
“That’s the nature of any creative activity — you’re mostly going to be rejected.”
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The New Yorker’s Bob Mankoff at a recent TED salon. When Mankoff quit psychology school in 1997 to become a cartoonist, he submitted 2,000 cartoons to the New Yorker that year. Of them, 2,000 were rejected. Today, he is the magazine’s cartoon editor.
Pair with the fantastic Fail Safe and Ray Bradbury’s advice on perseverance in the face of rejection.
(via explore-blog)
May 17, 2013, 1:37pm Comments