Making Artistic Careers Lucrative

I got tingles down my spine tonight when I read this article from nytimes. Working in a creative field and making a living at it is the dream. Point: there's only room for a handful at the top. Indeed, few of us will become massively successful conceptual painters with solo shows at SFMOMA, but many of us have a rock solid chance of making a fulfilling career where we don't starve and can maybe afford a side trip to San Francisco without having to mortgage out your cat to fund the damn trip (ermm...). Have faith, my creative, unable-to-stomach-the-temp-job-anymore friends! You can do good work and not sell out!

Tips and tricks? Post freely.

microphotographs

totally neat images (this here's a Dune Mouche) curated by SFMOMA (via Wired). There's a quality to them that is something between drawing and photography...and gel transfer?

lovely package indeed

there's something about those overly intricate mint tins (altoids, newman's own, etc) that make me stop in my tracks and share them with y'all.

(from lovely package via notcot)

Turn on your sound and TYPE

Part of Amy Papaelias' amazing bank of experimental typography:

http://www.sonotype.com/

Your favorite stops in the blogosphere

Jillian Temaki has written a great post (via drawn.ca) about idea generation. Among other things, she advises young grasshoppers (ie. the rest of us) to:

BE INTERESTED. Consume media. Participate in culture. Read books, go to movies, the news, fashion magazines, stupid blogs, etc. Browse the bookstore just for the hell of it.

It's no secret that I'm (mostly) a pop-culture-know-nothing. In the spirit of remembering that art and design should not be produced in an intellectual bubble, keeping in mind consuming (pop) culture is as important as creating it, and that above all art and design is a response to our surroundings, I want to ask you what your favorite blogs/culture gathering things are. Art+design related, tech, pure pop culture, literary, whatever, I want to hear it.

And c'mon, don't be too cool to admit it - I read perezhilton too!

vote today!

i would like encourage you all to vote today, so, uhh, i've drawn you a picture?

last minute info: www.voteforenvironment.ca

beautiful losers