NIN: “Hurt” live with David Bowie (1995) from Nine Inch Nails on Vimeo.
Nine Inch Nails and David Bowie perform “Hurt” live in 1995. From “Closure.”
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Nobody wants to read your shit.
There’s a phenomenon in advertising called Client’s Disease. Every client is in love with his own product. The mistake he makes is believing that, because he loves it, everyone else will too.
They won’t. The market doesn’t know what you’re selling and doesn’t care. Your potential customers are so busy dealing with the rest of their lives, they haven’t got a spare second to give to your product/work of art/business, no matter how worthy or how much you love it. What’s your answer to that?
1) Reduce your message to its simplest, clearest, easiest-to-understand form.
2) Make it fun. Or sexy or interesting or informative.
3) Apply that to all forms of writing or art or commerce.
When you understand that nobody wants to read your shit, your mind becomes powerfully concentrated. You begin to understand that writing/reading is, above all, a transaction. The reader donates his time and attention, which are supremely valuable commodities. In return, you the writer, must give him something worthy of his gift to you.
Steven Pressfield, author of The War of Art, shares the most important writing lesson he ever learned, adding to our ongoing archive of writing advice. (via explore-blog)
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The V Motion Project.
This project combines the collective talents of musicians, dancers, programmers, designers and animators to create an amazing visual instrument. v.co.nz/#the-motion-projectDo we still say EPIC?
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On February 25, 1970, Oliver Steindecker, Rothko’s assistant, found the artist in his kitchen, lying dead on the floor in front of the sink, covered in blood. He had sliced his arms with a razor found lying at his side. During autopsy it was discovered he had also overdosed on anti-depressants. He was 66 years old. The Seagram Murals arrived in London for display at the Tate Gallery on the very day of his suicide.
Dinosaur Jr. - Watch the Corners (from the upcoming LP “I Bet on Sky”) (by TurboViet)
