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The joy of destruction (thanks, J).
An unscientific study of what drugs do to creativity (Thanks, K).
Axe Cop! Written by a five-year-old, illustrated by his 29-year-old brother (thanks, M).
Another spoof case study. Soon someone will have to spoof spoof case studies (thanks, M):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oo7_eFftuM&feature=youtu.be
What’s it like living in other countries? (Thanks, K.)
This isn’t by Chris Cunningham, but it reminds me of his work (NSFW):
ET looks so sad. Obviously finding the whole 19th Century orgy thing unfulfilling.
That Axe Cop cartoon is very funny. The leaps in imagination are hilarious. I love that the older brother hasn’t changed the words at all.
On a different note, I have two questions for you which could be posts in their own right or might be too boring to bother with (and please don’t take the first one the wrong way).
1) A couple of days ago you posted an interview about your new book. Two things stood out: you were described in the intro as “seriously talented” (which by most standards you must be) and then you talked about the moment when your editor pointed out that you weren’t writing ‘literary’ fiction. It’s an interesting contradiction because it undoubtedly takes a lot of talent to write a book and get it published, but did it make you think how unbelievably fucking talented authors who have written some of the great classics must be? I mean, I think I’m pretty tasty at football but stick me on a pitch with someone who’s good enough to be paid to play and I look like a retard by comparison. I suppose I’m asking whether the whole book writing process changed the way you see the “great authors”? Do you place them on an even higher pedestal now you’ve played on the same pitch as them or could you see yourself writing something pretty special with a bit more practice and the time off to do it?
2) On an advertising note, what do you think would happen if an agency was given a brief and left alone to produce the final work with no feedback or input from the client at all? If the agency’s fee was based on the (business) results do you think someone in the agency would take on the role of the client and say things like “I really think we should tell people where they can buy it”? Do you think the work would stand out and do great things for the business or end up as self-indulgent nonsense that added nothing to the bottom line?
Anon,
Modesty dictates that I must point out that getting a book written and published is far more about hard work than talent (although I must also point out that if you like what you’re doing it doesn’t really feel like work). I think most people could write a book if they were willing to put the hours in.
On the question of the great writers… Yes I do think they seem to have the intelligence and ability to do things my brain is not up to. But then I routinely think that when I read football analysis (how can Song work as an anchor when we need a box to box player? Fuck knows) or stuff about music. I know I’m an author, and therefore I have much greater knowledge of how books work compared to trombones, but yes: there are tons of things I don’t understand. Am I capable of writing something closer to a classic? I don’t know until I try, but I suspect middlebrow might be my upper limit.
Only one way to find out…
(But then Dickens was initially thought of as a populist hack. There’s hope for me yet.)
On the other point, I’d love to see what would happen if advertising pay was performance related. Impossible to do because too many other factors (media spend, retail positioning, competition pricing etc), but it’d be interesting to see what would be produced under those circumstances.
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