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An Interview With Noah Bradley On Why You Don’t Want To Go To Art School

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Noah Bradley is a professional artist who works in gaming and other mediums – and he’s got a bone to pick with “traditional” art school educations that he wrote up at https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/138c5efd45e9.  He points out that a lot of art school careers put you in debt, with less earning potential than many other careers, and you can do it a lot easier.  We’ve seen people call out issues with law school, and medical school – Noah is calling it out about art schools.

So you know the drill – when someone rocks the boat in the creative world, I’m going to interview him.

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Zero1 Biennial Review

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So I attended the Zero1 Biennial main exhibit.  If you’re not familiar with it, its an every-two year exhibit run by the Zero1 network a group that promotes arts in Silicon Valley.  The theme this year was “Seeking Silicon Valley”, so the theme was even more techno-artistic.

The short theme of my review?  Go, both as a geek and as a progeek.  But if you want more details . . .

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Focused Fandom Countdown: 7 Weeks To Go

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Thank goodness, the next Focused Fandom Book, “Focused Fandom: Fanart, Fanartists And Careers” is off to my editor.  It’s a huge relief.

First of all, the book got smaller – I tend to write in an include-everything manner then pare down/build up.  Usually starting with the “build up” side and paring down later.  In this case a few subsections were merged or discarded, and one potential extra Appendix was eliminated since it wasn’t needed.

The Edge section is looking good, and I think it’ll provoke thoughts and help you see fanart in a different way.

The Career section is pretty basic, but I think I included some valuable extra detail and thoughts to help people out.  Artists have such varied and potential careers finding the balance between too much (and thus distraction) and not enough (and thus being incomplete) was hard.

The To-Do section is actually deeper than I expected – there’s a lot of “Must-Do’s” for artistic careers, and the psychological ones seem to be the real important issues.

The book is looking good so far, and I think you’ll be pleased – and of course, when it comes out mid-April or so, I’ll hope you can help tell everyone.

– Steven Savage