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A description of how this music-focused wiki works.

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I have an interview up on BUST that you can check out if u wanna. Here’s some thoughts regarding life/art/career advice:

BUST: Do you have any advice for young people, specifically young girls, that would like to pursue art as a career?

Signe Pierce:  To anybody, not just girls, who have ever said to themselves, “Is this ever gonna happen? I’m so sick of working at this café; I’m so sick of this 9 to 5,” I’d like to remind them that anything you’re putting your productive energy into has the potential to unlock valuable skills that you can apply towards your craft.  I worked at a café for three years in high school and it taught me to put love and care into everything I was making.  I worked for a wedding photographer after college, color-correcting thousands of images every day for two years.  That work felt so far removed from what I wanted my life to look like, but those hours spent analyzing color in wedding photography is what helped me sharpen my eye for color perception, which is now an invaluable aspect of my art.  It’s so important to find jobs that are even a little bit related to what you’re working towards.

One of my mantras when I was struggling was “ignore the noise; hard work pays off.” 24/7 we have a constant stream of other people’s lives on our radar and it’s easy to get distracted and jealous, watching other people thrive and have their moment. It is so easy to fall into the scroll-hole. If you’re feeling disenchanted and nervous, put the goddamn phone down, go for a walk, clear your head, and ignore the noise. Work hard. Don’t party every night. Eventually if you really want it you have to go get it—it’s not just going to come to you. Tapping into your mind and your goals and really envisioning what you would like your life to look like, the practice of that visualization can help you actualize it.

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page 22, Reality Hunger by David Shields.

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Barbara Kruger was a painter, but her a day job was a photo editor at Glamour. One day she would no longer tolerate the divide between the two activities, and her artwork became the captioning of photos.

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Painting isn’t dead. The novel isn’t dead. They just aren’t as central to culture as they once were.”

Barbara Kruger:  MTA Card   (2017)

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a model for creating digital narratives

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relevant

jungshook

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Rad af meme

I spent about 15 hours stitching this feminist art meme 😂

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A couple of Marcel Duchamp’s (b. 1887 - d. 1968, French) readymades. Top: Bicycle Whee 1913. Bottom: Fountain, 1917

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I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality

André Breton

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Surrealist woman painter, Maruja Mallo b.1902 - d. 1995, Spanish.

right: ArtworksAntro de fósiles (Den of Fossils) left: Naturaleza Viva (Living Nature)

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One of the most famous anti-environmentalists in American history: Dr. King ✊🏿

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Start at 4:15s for the sound "film” on the Knickerbocker Glory.

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Listen to an audio production of our first text: The Medium is the Massage. Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore & Jerome Agel

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“Our time presents a unique opportunity for learning by means of humor”

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“We Are All Cyborgs Now,” a TED talk by Amber Case