{"id":3418,"date":"2025-01-24T18:40:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T18:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/?p=3418"},"modified":"2025-01-25T00:30:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T00:30:33","slug":"kobo-and-how-to-be-an-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/?p=3418","title":{"rendered":"Kobo and &#8216;How to be an Artist&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kobo Colour Libra<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I just got an e-Reader. I&#8217;ve had the Kindle app for years, but not the physical device. While I was doing the MA I could only get, or afford, some articles and books online and I found this very useful for copying and pasting citations and quotations. Also my eyesight is fading. I couldn&#8217;t read in bed anymore and I used to do that every night, now I listen to BBC Sounds. I bought the Kobo eReader and this week I&#8217;ve already read 2 books in bed and one on the train. I wont give up physical books. I prefer their feel and look. Every bool looks the same in an eReader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8216;How to be an Artist&#8217;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized is-style-twentytwentyone-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/how-to-be-an-artist.jpg\" alt=\"how to be an artist\" class=\"wp-image-3425\" width=\"227\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/how-to-be-an-artist.jpg 303w, https:\/\/north-coast.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/how-to-be-an-artist-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">how to be an artist<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was the book I read on the train. There are plenty of tropes and quotes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I didn&#8217;t have a camera with me and I felt naked without it. But I had a notebook, a pen and  the Kobo, so I could read, think and write. The second semester of the MFA starts next week and I&#8217;m looking forward to it. I&#8217;d like to have something new to create. It seems that the semester will only run for 12 weeks to the end of April, so we will have a long break from May until October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I want to have a good project for the summer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Photobooks?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Entropy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Quantum Entanglement?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Some Ideas<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Inspired by the beginning of  Cat&#8217;s Eye: Print each layer of a (Cubist) image on acetate. Set them on a light box. Change the order of the layers &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. A matrix of pages from my MSc thesis, with something on top e.g. transcript, portrait, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3. Berlin? what though?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4. Can I get the wave-particle duality in with, say, cubism?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Some Quotes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From Saltz&#8217;s book. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>Art gives up its secrets very slowly<\/p><cite>Saltz<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>Art is a lie that tells the truth<\/p><cite>Pablo Picasso<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>Artists do not own the meaning of their work<\/p><cite>Roberta Smith<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kobo Colour Libra I just got an e-Reader. I&#8217;ve had the Kindle app for years, but not the physical device. While I was doing the MA I could only get, or afford, some articles and books online and I found this very useful for copying and pasting citations and quotations. Also my eyesight is fading.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/?p=3418\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kobo and &#8216;How to be an Artist&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-mfa","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3418"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3432,"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418\/revisions\/3432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}