Greetings Gates,
Squeezing the day for time is certainly a problem. I have found the most
satisfactory results come from stealing time from one's job. I work for a
New York publishing house. Possibly the lowest paying publisher in NY.
However, what they lack in actual cash they make up for in slack. As long
as the work they're paying me for gets done, my time is my own. Of course,
I put my own needs before the publisher's, but I have an extremely bad
attitude and probably shouldn't even be suggesting stealing an employer's
time. But I do suggest it. I advocate it, in fact. Unless you work for a
very good person or company, one that understands how you must live, you
must steal all the time you can from your workaday job.
Artists are very nearly worthless to most Americans (or so it seems to me).
If we don't take time for ourselves when we can, no one will make a gift of
it. Alas. I don't mean to sound unduly bitter (yes, she does! oh, what a
lie!), but I've been slogging through grant applications all morning. (Ready
for the ritual burning right about now, you betcha!)
Also, being new to the list, I must say this Eric Anderson/ Ken
Friedman situation would be very funny were it not so time consuming. I've
always known Ken Friedman as a name to conjure with, but Eric Anderson?
Could be from Jupiter for all I know. But boys will be boys, I suppose. If
only these boys could be Beuys....
Kiss-Kiss
Badgergirl
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>From: "Sol Nte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: FLUXLIST: How to find Time
>Date: Tue, Aug 22, 2000, 9:48 AM
>
> Hi all,
>
> I know many of you work full-time at a job other than as an artist and yet
> still find the time to work to a significant degree as artists. Often for
> those of us interested in the avant-garde making a living from our artistic
> interests is not an option. Lately I seem to have got bogged down to a stage
> where I don't seem to have time to do as much as I would like. I'm wondering
> if anyone has any tips/advice about time management where art is concerned.
> What I want to do is work out a way of making sure I follow through on ideas
> immediately rather than just writing scrappy notes of what I'm going to do
> and then never doing it. I'm interested to know how others tackle this
> problem.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Sol.
>
>
