This is gonna be great. More here: The sound of Substack - by Dan Stone - The Substack Post
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David Hockney's motto: “Love life.”
When you become extremely rich, you become isolated. You will be surrounded by people, but they will not be equals or peers who will talk frankly and honestly with you. They will only be there because of the money and if the money vanishes, so will they. You will be, essentially, alone with your staff and the constant buzz of people attempting to get something from you. You will trust no-one, feel no loyalty, and avoid facing what you have lost. On paper billionaires are rich, but in practice they are some of the poorest people alive.
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Good advice from Baby Billy.
"Get out! Go!"
“Weave every darn day”* becomes concrete when you can use a red Sharpie to mark off the days that you sat down at the loom and worked on that tapestry. I found the marking through the days especially satisfying when I used a marker and red was the best. There were four days in February that I didn’t weave on the rocks tapestry. On the 28th I cut it off the loom.
“There are two things I'm happy about: I was born poor. And I stuttered. Challenging. Very challenging. Let's go get them.” McArthur Binion’s love for art started by chance. As a delivery boy, he was asked to drop a package at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. ”This was the first time I'd ever been in a museum. I went in, and that experience changed my life.” Binion started drawing classes and worked uninterruptedly for two years.”If you can’t talk, I became a professional listener. And then I realised: You can’t learn while you talk.”
I transcribed the whole ending of the video because it’s great:
“I’m in the process now of developing new work. I’m going to a place that I’ve never been. When that’s happening in life, I can’t talk and I stutter like crazy. Which gets back to the point: stuttering is kind of what made me what I am. Because if you can’t talk… I became a professional listener. And then I realized: you can’t learn while you talk! I mean, like, it took me forever to just think to myself, ‘This is how you talk, man, no one else cares but you,’ but it’s still a key thing to my life that I want to speak visually.”
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Orchid grown by Diana Antia with a copy of Show Your Work!
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“Even Updike!” from Jill Lepore’s “The Editorial Battles That Made The New Yorker”
Her father gave her a diary a week before her 11th birthday. She hasn't missed a single day of writing since her first entry on Jan. 1 1936.
“I never write in print letters — it’s always in cursive,” Riski said. “And every night, when I finish writing, I always look back one year to see what I was doing the year before.”
“No matter where you are in life, it’s fun to write down what you are doing, so you can look back. It doesn’t take much time every day, and it’s just a wonderful habit to get into. Ninety years is a long time, but I’m happy that I did it.”