This week I’m introducing a brand new interview format that I devised for the THRIVING Artists Series. It’s called 3x3x3.
There’s no hair, makeup, or lighting crew. It’s just me in my San Francisco Pacific beach studio connecting with other artists on the globe via Google Hangouts on Air, one of my new favorite tools.
I’m interviewing THRIVING Artists about their three biggest:
- successes
- fattest failures
- lessons that they’ve learned
The point is that successful artists succeed, of course, but they also fail.
The difference between the losers and the winners is that winners learn from their failures and press on.
Successes are inspiring but I also want to talk about the other side of the coin, no pun intended.
My hope is that this format will deliver more actionable bite sized take aways.
A few weeks ago I heard an NPR segment on a poet in St. Louis named Henry Goldkamp who has created a community art project called “What the hell is St. Louis Thinking?”
What? A poet thriving? I had to talk to that guy.
He has spread out 40 typewriters throughout St. Louis for average citizens to express their thoughts and then place their prose in drop boxes.
What’s the unique value proposition that this poet created?
Rather than Henry writing the prose himself, he’s providing a free thinking platform and inviting average citizens to express themselves.
Henry asserts that “Everyone has art inside of them.” And that “This project is rooted in finding beauty in the everyday word.”
Goldkamp will be publishing a hard copy book available on Amazon.
Become a Face Book fan and follow the project here:
https://www.facebook.com/WhatTheHellIsSaintLouisThinking
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