collaboration

Begin Anywhere, Ideas Will Come (Lucio Fontana, Gary Snyder)

Every morning, we take a minute to look at this image of artist Lucio Fontana approaching a blank canvas. It offers an essential insight about creative work as does this tiny poem by Gary Snyder.

Dancer, Singer and Cellist Collaborate the Blues Away (w Isadora Duncan)

Legendary choreographer Bill T. Jones, cellist Joshua Roman and vocalist Somi didn’t know exactly what was going to happen when they took the stage at TED on morning in 2015. They improvised five energizing minutes that totally dispel the blues. What art can do!

Showing Up to Meet New Ideas

Every morning when we open up our office for work, we take a minute to look at this image taped on our wall, of artist Lucio Fontana approaching a blank canvas. We never tire of it. We think two things: That canvas is the day or a project or a new path, full of possibility AND… Look…

Laurie Anderson’s Farewell to Lou Reed: ‘Some Kinda Love’

We were very moved by Laurie Anderson’s Farewell to Lou Reed in Rolling Stone. We’ve excerpted a chunk, but it’s well worth reading the whole beautiful thing: rich insight into two very original people improvising a life together. Anderson’s words need no commentary: “How strange, exciting and miraculous that we can change each other so much, love…

Dithyrambalina: Musical Architecture Project in New Orleans

(Video link here.) Dithyrambalina is sonic playground, performance venue and laboratory for musical architecture project on its way to being funded via Kickstarter. New Orleans native Clayton Cubitt describes it as “A place made from reclaimed materials, architecture you can play, a local imagination factory and nexus for community connections.” In this cool little video, we found two…

awesome music made from you-tube videos

Out of clips of musicians downloaded from YouTube, Israeli musician Kutiman (Ophir Kutiel) cut and mixed more than a hundred performances into original music. As Sasha Frere-Jones put it: “total strangers collaborating on what sound like live songs”. Hear the album and watch the videos (with attribution) at thru-you.com.