An article about being an artist and making a living.
I have put in a comment to it:
I found it to be a relief when I realized that it was not a failure if I did not make my living by painting or photographing. In fact it can remove the strain of having to please many. Like you said, how many professional photographers make their living on actual fine art?
For a life of doing more than one thing, I recommend the books "Refuse to Choose" and "The Renaissance Soul".
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This article was somehow like its topic: it doesen't help much, practically, but it feels like I've learned something important from it.
I found it very interesting.
What's a "P-04referent"?
As someone who does a number of different things "for money (sometimes not), I always find it difficult to answer the question "What do *you* do?"
Me too. I'm a writer, photographer, editor, publisher, designer...
I usually say I'm a web designer, if talking to people I'm not likely to get to know well.
Eolake,
Simple question, complicated answer. Verily. A bit like asking "what is ACIM"?
P-04 is the "Sigma PSI code" for our universe. Sort of like the specific coordinates to our Reality. Our own "dimension", in sci-fi classic talk. It would seem there is a difference between odd and even numbers in the P-xx category, but that is unconfirmed yet. It's not known either whether their number is finite or not.
I can reveal this: Human life on P-03 was wiped out by a nuclear holocaust. P-02 is seemingly a mirror universe made of anti-matter, at least compared with P-01. But it might be the other way round, since these conventions are arbitrary. P-01 is undergoing dramatic but globally positive changes at the eqivalent stage of our own timeline.
The S-xx and I-xx categories are very different.
As for a referent, well, it's something like a special friend, very generally speaking. In a point of view where nearly everybody can be considered an "ordinary" friend. You could say that Gary Renard was the referent for the two people whose message he made public. I guess.
Somebody wishes me to write something in this "reality plane", so I'm a referent for P-04.
Things should become clearer in due time. Lets' just consider for now that I'm making up super-secret codes which only I know the meaning of, so I can feel childishly cool. ;-)
Okay, resident anonymous flamer, this is your cue to point out how exceptionally verbose and confuse I was THIS time. Do make it creatively worthwile, awright?
Huh. How about that.
Oy vey.
Eolake, you just HAD to ask, didn't you?
Good thing I have my analyst on speed-dial.
Oh, yeah, about my cue:
This has to be the Guinness record for confuse verbosity of all times, spaces and dimensions. I P in the S of your mind-boggling jibberish. With the help of a lead funnel to improve my aim, because I'm still shaky from the trauma.
Besides, what this sophisticated code probably really means, is that you need to get on all 4 to take a P.
If you had a pair, you'd only need to get on 3 legs, like any self-respecting dominant male canis lupus. Take me, for instance. :-P
How's THAT for creative?
Aroo! Impressively put, RAF.
Nice to know we can always count on you for a favor.
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