David Foster Wallace - Bookworm on KCRW. Photos of 'Glacier Caves' Taken Inside a Plastic Bag. 5 Timeless Books of Insight on Fear and the Creative Process. By Maria Popova From Monet to Tiger Woods, or why creating rituals and breaking routines don’t have to be conflicting notions. “Creativity is like chasing chickens,” Christoph Niemann once said. But sometimes it can feel like being chased by chickens — giant, angry, menacing chickens. Whether you’re a writer, designer, artist or maker of anything in any medium, you know the creative process can be plagued by fear, often so paralyzing it makes it hard to actually create. Today, we turn to insights on fear and creativity from five favorite books on the creative process and the artist’s way. Despite our best-argued cases for incremental innovation and creativity via hard work, the myth of the genius and the muse perseveres in how we think about great artists. In the ideal — that is to say, real — artist, fears not only continue to exist, they exist side by side with the desires that complement them, perhaps drive them, certainly feed them.
Are you paralyzed with fear? Donating = Loving. Inside Lascaux: Rare, Unpublished - Photo Gallery. The story is so improbable, so marvelous, that it feels more like the remnant of a dream, or a half-remembered myth, rather than something that unfolded within living memory. . . . September 12, 1940. A warm afternoon in southwestern France. As two schoolboys hunt rabbits on a ridge covered with pine, oak and blackberry brambles, their dog, Robot, excitedly chases a hare down a hole in the ground beside a downed tree.
As boys will, the youngsters begin to dig, widening the hole, removing rocks — until they find themselves not merely in another world, but another time. In the cool dark beneath the known world, the boys discover “a Versailles of prehistory” — a vast series of caves, today collectively known as Lascaux, covered with wall paintings roughly 17,000 years old. “LIFE re-opened its Paris bureau after the second World War ended, in the same offices we rented before the war” Morse said. “The first sight of those paintings was simply unbelievable,” Morse said. Shard View at Night Panorama | London Photographer. Diamond Dogs « Pushing Ahead of the Dame.
Diamond Dogs.Diamond Dogs (live, 1974).Diamond Dogs (live, 1976).Diamond Dogs (live, 1996).Diamond Dogs (live, 2004). They’d taken over this barren city, this city that was falling apart. They’d been able to break into windows of jewelers and things, so they’d dressed themselves up in furs and diamonds. But they had snaggle-teeth, really filthy, kind of like vicious Oliver Twists. It was a take on, what if those guys had gone malicious, if Fagin’s gang had gone absolutely ape-shit?
They were living on the tops of buildings…they were all little Johnny Rottens and Sid Viciouses, really. David Bowie, on “Diamond Dogs,” 1993. Where I lived was with my dadda and mum in the flats of municipal flatblock 18A, between Kingsley Avenue and Wilsonway. Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange. “Diamond Dogs” has never sounded quite right: a sordid, overlong Rolling Stones imitation, someone else’s nightmare inflicted with malice upon you.
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