Schulz Drawing Peanuts, The Creative Flow, Book Restoration, etc.
In which someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection... the lovers, the dreamers and me.
♞ From Ethan Hawke’s Rules for a Knight, a quick and excellent read: “Excellence lives in attention to detail. Give your all, all the time. Don’t save anything for the walk home.”
📚 Just started The Creative Act: A Way of Being. What are you reading?
✍️ Charles Schulz drawing Peanuts. “I wish I had a better education but I think that my entire background made me well-suited for what I do. If I could write better than I can, perhaps I would have tried to become a novelist and I might have become a failure. If I could draw better than I can, I might have tried to become an illustrator or an artist and would have failed there. But my entire being seems to be just right for being a cartoonist.”
🧠 Brain scans of jazz musicians reveal “secrets to reaching creative flow… Once expertise is attained, the study found, this knowledge must be unleashed and not overthought in order for flow to be reached.”
😂 Re-watching American Movie last week unlocked memories of Mark and Mike on Letterman and I cannot stop laughing.
😔 If you’re sad, maybe you shouldn’t create, so says filmmaker David Lynch. “It stands to reason: the more you suffer, the less you want to create. If you’re truly depressed, they say you can’t even get out of bed, let alone create. It occupies the whole brain, poisons the artist, poisons the environment; little room for creativity.”
🎼 Synthony, a DJ set painstakingly arranged and performed by orchestra and vocalists “in an immersive light, laser, and visual show, reimagining iconic club anthems.”
🥁 Before The Carpenters, the siblings appeared with a third member as The Dick Carpenter Trio on a television talent show and frankly murdered it. They’re all solid, but Karen is an absolute monster (listen to The Carpenters’ cover of jazz standard “Caravan” for further proof).
🆈 Scrabble is releasing a “less competitive version.” Makes me want to get better at the game.
💥 Where did the Big Bang get its name? “Today, it is a household phrase, known to and routinely used by people who have no idea of how the Universe was born some 14 billion years ago.”
📖 Restoring a 100-year-old book. “Restoring a 100-year-old book can often take 8-12 hours. Bogel says it feels like "book surgery" when she's in the midst of this process. Bogel's work, although labor intensive and nerve wracking, seems like a deeply rewarding craft to practice.”
🌈 I’ll leave you with the duet you didn’t know you needed: Willie Nelson and Kermit the Frog, recorded at last month’s Luck Fest, held annually in Willie's backyard. “What's so amazing that keeps us stargazing, and what do we think we might see?”
✌️ Remember to keep the Hoping Machine running.
Love,
Luke
