FRIDA LIKES WATERMELONS

Closing the gap between dreams and reality.

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Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.
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latimes: Paul & Andre, a new club, is the latest to join Los Angeles’ growing list of pop-up establishments. Photo: Patrons enter Paul & Andre, a pop-up bar located in the old Cinespace location for 6 months this summer. Credit: Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times Hosting dance parties, movie nights, even online literary workshops without a “home” might have proved problematic for some, but, fortunately, for the artistic individuals who are actively making the CV interesting and worth living in, pop-ups (or location-hopping if I can use another term) is another example of how our generation has turned that which should be against us into something positive and creative.  Yay to LA and the CV! 

latimes:

Paul & Andre, a new club, is the latest to join Los Angeles’ growing list of pop-up establishments.

Photo: Patrons enter Paul & Andre, a pop-up bar located in the old Cinespace location for 6 months this summer. Credit: Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times

Hosting dance parties, movie nights, even online literary workshops without a “home” might have proved problematic for some, but, fortunately, for the artistic individuals who are actively making the CV interesting and worth living in, pop-ups (or location-hopping if I can use another term) is another example of how our generation has turned that which should be against us into something positive and creative.  Yay to LA and the CV! 

(Source: Los Angeles Times)

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today was some “burning steering wheel weather” realness

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Easy Target: DOMA Don'ts, Safe Sexts, and Polk vs. Rainbows

Welcome to a new column called Easy Target. Oscar Raymundo is the event coordinator at A Different Light bookstore and an editor at GayCities.com. He also writes the HomoTech column for EDGE Media Networks. Each week he alerts you to potential advances or threats to gaykind from the forces of the news media, politics, and popular culture — the front lines of the culture wars — in San Francisco and beyond. He also rates the personal risks being taken by those speaking up: Safe, Risky, or Dangerous.

This week, President Obama’s warning signs lower over the Defense of Marriage Act, and Fox News issues a state of emergency. Texting turns out to be a real life-saver. James Franco keeps acting gay. Polk Street residents go after gay colors and art. A Canadian gay boy has the worst “meet the parents” ever. And The A-List wants you - to give up what you have left of your dignity and argue over salad!

Read the rest of the column over at SF Weekly.

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going from day to day [is] like unwrapping the real day from other days made out of splendid, fragile, colored tissue
Deborah Eisenberg, Twilight of the Superheroes