On the street or on the Internet, this is what makes authentically engaging an audience, from one human being to another, such an integral part of asking. Those who must beg demand our help those who ask have faith in our capacity for love and in our desire to share with one another. Begging is a function of fear, desperation, or weakness. And even after finding that balance, how we ask, and how we receive the answer-allowing, even embracing, the no-is just as important as finding that feeling of valid-ness.Īsking is like courtship begging, you are already naked and panting.Īsking is an act of intimacy and trust. We have to truly believe in the validity of what we’re asking for-which can be incredibly hard work and requires a tightrope walk above the doom-valley of arrogance and entitlement. Whether it’s in the arts, at work, or in our relationships, we often resist asking not only because we’re afraid of rejection but also because we don’t even think we deserve what we’re asking for. Often it is our own sense that we are undeserving of help that has immobilized us. But it is the fear of the no that keeps so many of our mouths sewn tightly shut. If we don’t allow for that no, we’re not actually asking, we’re either begging or demanding. …to be sure: when you ask, there’s always the possibility of a no on the other side of the request. Those who can ask without shame are viewing themselves in collaboration with-rather than in competition with-the world. Given the opportunity, some small consistent portion of the population will happily pay for art. I didn’t just feel a fleeting sense of thanks for each generous person who stopped I had been hammered into a gratitude-shaped vessel and would never take for granted those willing to slow down and connect. That ongoing sense of appreciation shaped my constitution in a fundamental way.
Maat 09:51PM Posted in: Inspiration, Reblog | Tagged: Feedly, IFTTT, reblog “You already have it!” Denzel WashingtonĪs for me, it took a few months of hardcore statue work to really find my footing and develop this sense of deep gratitude for the sliver of the population, however small, that was willing to tune their head frequencies to the Art Channel for a moment, interrupting their march to work. There is three additive synthesis engine to choose from, one of which is independent from the application and can be downloaded on the homepage, it act as a server and receive slices content over the network from any clients allowing anyone to run the synthesis engine on dedicated hardware such as a Raspberry PI, it support high quality audio and is able to route the audio captured from specific slices to multiple output channels.įragment is aimed at artists seeking a creative environment with few limitations to experiment with, a noise-of-all-kinds software.