Rhode Island School of Design. - Make Trouble

Ive also built a career out of negative reviews, and have been called the Prince of Puke by the press. And most recently a title Im really proud of: The Peoples Pervert I am honored to be here today with my people. Okay, Im supposed to inspire you. Hows this? Somehow Ive been able to make a living doing what I love best for fifty years without ever having to get a real job. But how can you be so disciplined? friends always ask when I tell them my job is to get up every day at 6 a.m. Easy! If I didnt work this hard for myself, Id have to go work for somebody else. Easy! If I didnt work this hard for myself, Id have to go work for somebody else.

Plus, I can go to my office one room away from my bedroom in my own house dressed in my underpants if I want to. Youre lucky. When I went to school, my teachers discouraged every dream I ever had. I wanted to be the filthiest person alive, but no school would let me. Today, you could possibly even make a snuff movie in college and get an A+. Hopefully you have been taught never to fear rejection in the workplace.

Remember, a no is free. Ask for the world and pay no mind if you are initially turned down. A career in the arts is like a hitchhiking trip: All you need is one person to say get in, and off you go. And then the confidence begins. Of course, play is equally as important to your education as work. And in the fine arts, play is work, isnt it? What other field allows you to deduct as business expenses from your taxes gangsta rap, Gaspar Nos movies, even vintage porn as long as you use it for research? Remember: you must participate in the creative world you want to become part of.

So what if you have talent? Then what? If youre a visual artist, go see the shows in the galleries that are frantically competing to find the one bad neighborhood left in Manhattan to open up in. Watch every movie that gets a negative review in the New York Times and figure out what the director did wrong. Or right! Read, read, read! Watch people on the streets. Spy, be nosy, eavesdrop. nd, as you get older, youll need youth spies that will keep you abreast of new music that nobody your age has heard of yet or body-piercing mutilations that are becoming all the rageeven budding sexually transmitted diseases you should go to any length to avoid. ever be like some of my generation who say, We had more fun in the sixties.

No, we didnt! The kids today who still live with their parents (who havent seen them in months but leave food outside their bedroom doors) are having just as much fun shutting down the governments of foreign countries on their computer as we did banning the bomb. These days, everybody wants to be an outsider, politically correct to a fault.