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313 - How to Make Creative Rules When You Don't Know What You Want with Austin Kleon

Creative Pep Talk

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The Importance of Imagining an Alternative Reality

I'm always just searching for alternate models. You know, I get so tired of everything else. Ray Bradbury is an interesting writer because he really picks up, he sort of fuses realism with these other kind of art forms that weren't as popular at the time. They send me every mashup that has ever been done. And I'm like, honestly, I hate most mashups, dude. What I'm talking about is, you know, metamorphosis. Like Doc Brown would pull up in the DeLorean and he'd open the Mr. Fusion and he'd just throw garbage in there to fuel the car. That's really my vision of what artists have to do.

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