do you wanna dance?

You may need to learn how to set up your paints and such… but this is what people did, live, while the show aired. That’s what the show was for. I had family members create lovely works of art they enjoyed, which I still have on my walls, because William Alexander and Bob Ross both said:

SCREW METICULOUS CLASSICAL ART PRACTICES — JUST GRAB A PALETTE KNIFE AND BIG OLD BRUSH AND PAINT!

They freed a whole generation of people who were taught to paint detail and realism and exact representation of reality — people who largely gave up this kind of thing because it got tedious.

I watched the joy of family members as they rediscovered art as a messy fun spontaneous half hour activity.

How to Start by rthwrms

for the times when you really truly want to do something, but find resistance or that starting feels impossible

most helpful action to get into a task is: look at it options include: review what you've already done open the tab on screen blur your eyes at first if that helps fullscreen the image browse or skim relevant texts let your gaze move around how it will JUST...LOOK!!!

Your brain has resistance towards starting the particular project in the way that you've previously conceived of it. Instead of fighting that resistance, try to change your approach to starting your work. Ie, start with colored pencils on a piece you were doing in gouache, include a new stitch in a crochet piece, Step one: identify the process Step two: identify places where something new can be included Step three: brainstorm new options to fill these spots Step four: select one or more options and try your piece from this new angle

encourage yourself by asking questions start with: "What am I actually trying to do right now?" then try: "What would this look like if it were more fun?" "How would I do it if anything was possible?"

divide into discrete tasks make the closest or shiniest one literally as small & specific as freaking possible

image text: I BELIEVE IN YOU screenshot text: The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. W.B. Yeats (via billowy)

there is a window now there is a door

Freud

an outline of psychoanalysis

the origin and development of psychoanalysis

the complete psychological works

the ego and the id

the interpretation of dreams

introductory lectures on psychoanalysis

a collection of critical essays

Lacan

four fundamental concepts (other edition here)

the ethics of psychoanalysis

the limits of love and knowledge

the language of the self

seminar i: freud's papers on technique

Sartre

existential psychoanalysis

being and nothingness

Žižek

the sublime object of ideology

violence

everything you always wanted to know about lacan (but were too afraid to ask hitchcock)

the plague of fantasies

in defense of lost causes

enjoy your symptom! lacan in hollywood and out

others

Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists – Joan Copjec

Imagine There's No Woman – Joan Copjec

gaze and voice as love objects – Žižek et al

jacques lacan and the other side of psychoanalysis – Žižek et al

a clinical introduction to lacanian psychoanalysis – bruce fink

lacan: the absolute master – mikkel borch-jacobson

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