📽️🪇📻 ✨ "The only way I can yoke together all the fields that I find myself in: because of a cranky wish for things to be one way and not another; not necessarily out of a talent, or a gift, or any self-confidence." - Theda Hammel (ham) thecreativeindependent.com/people/filmmak…

"If you're communicating something that is sincere to yourself, [an audience] shouldn't even be your concern. Your audience is the audience of yourself, is an audience of one... What’s important is that the work is made." -Driely S. thecreativeindependent.com/people/artist-…

Great conversation with Remi Wolf on TCI today. "When I signed a record deal, I felt a big sigh of relief, but even before that, I was working at restaurants and making music, and I was working in cafes and making music, and I enjoyed that as well." thecreativeindependent.com/people/musicia…

we're announcing more for basilica soundscape tomorrow, but for now, wanted to share this amazing flyer ben (Ben Seretan 🦗) made, in all its shimmering beauty—if you look closely, you'll see some new surprises. tickets are here: dice.fm/bundles/basili…

Today on TCI 🎙️✨🌻 "I'm really inspired by what’s around me. It keeps me present and in the moment during the writing process, rather than coming in and trying to bring something that already has life, more to life." - Remi Wolf thecreativeindependent.com/people/musicia…

Le média du mois ⭐️ Chaque mois, un·e membre de l'équipe vous dresse son analyse d'un média qu'il ou elle apprécie particulièrement. Pour cette nouvelle édition, Owen Huchon a choisi The Creative Independent 👀 medianes.org/le-media-du-mo…

.Nadya Tolokonnikova's new harsh noise project/collective, pussy riot siberia, has been added to basilica soundscape. bring earplugs for that pussy riot to lightning bolt moment. 🌈🔥⚡️ tickets are here: dice.fm/bundles/basili…

🌱✨ "It’s easy to feel like we don’t have the right skills, or the right environment, or we need the stars to align properly in order to make something. But I’m like, 'Fuck it, make it and see what happens.'" - artist Nicole McLaughlin (Nicole McLaughlin) thecreativeindependent.com/people/designe…

🎯 "It’s not sustainable or even realistic for one person to only be doing one thing or the other... A lot of people don't know that I have a day job, and a lot of people don’t know that I have an art practice." — artist and designer Somnath Bhatt thecreativeindependent.com/people/artist-…

PUSSY RIOT SIBERIA + EXHIBITS + TALKS There'll be an epic 5 hours-long event on Sept 25 in New York at 3 Dollar Bill 🏳️‍🌈 Let's party and riot together! Some events are ticketed, some require only free registration - all info at pussyriot.love

Read a new interview with Terry Allen on “confronting your curiosity” and Truckload of Art in The Creative Independent Thanks to Jeffrey Silverstein for the conversation. Don't miss Terry next month in NYC, presetned by Blank Forms. thecreativeindependent.com/people/musicia…

Terry Allen in conversation with Jeffrey Silverstein Jeffrey Silverstein for the The Creative Independent 🥹 thecreativeindependent.com/people/musicia…

had a real nice time speaking with legend/hero of mine terry allen for The Creative Independent. thanks to Paradise of Bachelors for helping make this one happen. thecreativeindependent.com/people/musicia…

Today on TCI ✏️🌻 "I need to be able to center this idea that I'm as pointless and purposeful as a flower is. I can just be and not achieve, and that is still worthy." - writer Genevieve Jagger (Genevieve Jagger) thecreativeindependent.com/people/author-…

🔎 ✨ 🌱 "You can see the things in other people’s work that’s not working so much more easily than you can your own... That whole thing about how you can see the splinter in somebody else’s eye, but you miss the plank in your own." - Deesha Philyaw thecreativeindependent.com/people/writer-…

Thanks for this conversation!

Today on TCI 🌺🌷🌸 "We all need to make a living, but it’s possible to do so without selling yourself..." - visual artist and musician Tara Walters thecreativeindependent.com/people/visual-…