Think Process, Not Product

The great Chilly Gonzales (“the musical genius!”) has a new book of sheet music out called Re-Introduction Etudes, which is a book of 24 pieces designed to give people with limited piano training who gave up for whatever reason a "re-introduction" to music theory and playing.

Here's a video of Gonzales explaining left-hand technique:

And here's a series he's doing called “Pop Music Masterclass,” where he takes pop songs and explains the musical theory behind them. Here's one for Lykke Li's "No Rest For The Wicked":

And here's one for Daft Punk's "Get Lucky":

THE 1000 TEES PROJECT by SEIBEI

To show his process, t-shirt designer and illustrator David Murray is posting the next 1000 t-shirt ideas he sketches.

Most of them will be really bad, but that’s the point. My brain is a supercollider of bullshit. I’ve read so many comics, watched so much TV, and made and heard so many bad jokes, that in order to pull out the kernel of one good, original idea, I’ve got to pull out a lot of bad ones to uncover it.

As I start to pull out ideas I like or ones worth saving, or ones you like, I’ll take another stab at them, and reblog them with the original and the revision, to show my process.

Each sketch is very quick and will be presented with minimal commentary, and really is just a way for me to get ideas out and in front of me so I can mold them into something better (though every so often I have struck gold with a first sketch).