TUMBLR
A scrapbook of stuff I'm reading / looking at / listening to / thinking about...
Posts tagged "steal like an artist"
On doing what you love
“The key to eternal happiness is low overhead and no debt.”
—Lynda Barry
Anybody who tells people to “do what you love no matter what” should also have to teach a money management course.
Low overhead + no debt + “do what you love” = a good life.
“I deserve nice things” + debt + “do what you love” = a time bomb.
(Image from Steal Like An Artist)
This is fun: I was tag surfing and found this photo posted by ohheytpe — Steal is out in China! I had no idea. More here.
UPDATE: if you want some serious WTF action, check out this insane book trailer starring…cats?
Andy Baio, “The New Prohibition”
“Fair use will not save you.”
Finally got around to watching Andy’s chilling talk on copyright, remix culture, and his legal battle and $30,000 settlement with the lawyers of photographer Jay Maisel. Ugh.
I wrote a little something about fair use for the New York Times last year. Murky waters:
Of course, one man’s fair use is another’s infringement, and unfortunately, the burden of proof in a fair use case is on the defendant, who, often lacking the money to fight in court, has no choice but to cease and desist. Many artists have suffered this fate, and so I continue making the blackouts with fingers crossed for a litigation-free future.
Pretty wild: the Russian edition of Steal Like An Artist is a huge hardcover.
Is it weird and narcissistic to reblog your own book quotes? Of course it is. But this is probably my favorite paragraph from Steal Like An Artist.
(Source: pennybrave)
Spitballing Indy: George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and the creation of Indiana Jones
[O]ver several days in 1978, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and the screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan worked through an idea Lucas had for a film called “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” and they recorded the sessions. And there’s a transcript. And it’s online.
…
As the men hash out the Jones iconography, they refer, incessantly, to other films, invoking Eastwood, Bond, and Mifune. He will dress like Bogart in “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,” Lucas says: “the khaki pants…the leather jacket. That sort of felt hat.” Oh, and also? “A bullwhip.” He’ll carry it “rolled up,” Lucas continues. “Like a snake that’s coiled up behind him.”
“I like that,” Spielberg says. “The doctor with the bullwhip.”
Steal Like An Artist in Russian! Other translations, here.
Steal Like An Artist (by Vladimir Goroshnikov)
This is the book trailer for the Russian translation of Steal Like An Artist. It’s pretty high budget, man! Nice.
