Archive for June, 2012

Minimalism Fights The Resistance

Zach on June 18th, 2012 under creativity •  No Comments

“As artists and professionals it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In the uprising we free ourselves from the tyranny of consumer culture. We overthrow the programming of advertising, movies, video games, magazines, TV and MTV by which we have been hypnotized from the cradle. [...]

Art Is Defined By Limitations

Zach on June 11th, 2012 under Art •  No Comments

“What you see in a work of art is the artist’s struggle against his own limitations” – Saul Steinberg

Dr. Seuss Writing With Constraints

Zach on June 4th, 2012 under Writing •  No Comments

Theodor Geisel’s (Dr. Seuss) editor, Bennett Cerf, challenged him to write a book using 50 words or less.  He made this challenge when Seuss was writing The Cat in the Hat (which used 225 words) but Geisel didn’t back down from the challenge and wrote Green Eggs and Ham with exactly 50 different words.  Those [...]