Business of Art + Design

Paul Reed Smith and Paul Miles ’91 deliver keynote talk to commence MICA’s new Master of Professional Studies in the Business of Art + Design on Sunday, May 29, 7:30-9:30 p.m.

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Thought Provoking Straight Talk

…in Charlie Rose interview w Cory, “On the march to true freedom & liberty.” (View here)

Genuine and authentic leadership will always defeat the selfish

This is an old blog post from one of my favorite blogs.

As a prelude let me say this: I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about why I do what I do on a routine basis. You know what I mean? Waking up in the morning and heading to work has been pretty tough the lat few months! To be honest, I feel like I’ve become a creature of habit… and at the end of a “productive” day at work, I feel I wasted an entire day. I routinely feel that I could be contributing more. These days that’s exactly what I’m in search of…contributing more, to society at large, more to make a larger, lasting impression on people’s lives.

Sorry to rant, but here’s what I meant to post:

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Caught My Eye

Caught My Eye

“It Feels Good To Go Somewhere & Come Back Different”

Amanda Diva talks about why she prefers Paris, why she contemplates moving there and the value of a fresh perspective.

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Overcome Resistance and Get Out of Your Own Way

The three dumbest guys I can think of: Charles Lindbergh, Steve Jobs, Winston Churchill. Why? Because any smart person who understood how impossibly arduous were the tasks they had set themselves would have pulled the plug before he even began.Ignorance and arrogance are the artist and entrepreneur’s indispensable allies. She must be clueless enough to have no idea how difficult her enterprise is going to be—and cocky enough to believe she can pull it off anyway.How do we achieve this state of mind?By staying stupid. By not allowing ourselves to think.

A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate. (more…)

Caught My Eye

It’s Ok To Steal…

Austin Kleon wants you to know that all artists steal.

As much as creatives don’t want to admit it, WE ALL STEAL. The thing that separates the good ones from bad ones is that the good ones steal from many places to create new combinations, while the bad ones steal from only a few places and their work just looks jacked. Either way stealing is just one of 9 points of contention that writer Austin Kleon talks about on his blog. So head on over, you might learn a thing or two about being creative. (Source: AnotherFaceInTheCrowd.com)