Patti Smith: Advice to the young from Louisiana Channel on Vimeo.
Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises, don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned about doing good work. Protect your work and if you build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency.

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"On Facebook and Twitter, you are performing to attract people - you are dancing emotionally, on a platform created by a large corporation. People's feelings bounce back and forth - happy Stakhanovites, ignoring and denying the system of power. It's like Stalin's socialist realism. Both Twitter and socialist realism are innocent expressions of the ( Read more... )

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