Kismet Arts Tangent
Art Collective
Author: KC
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It’s as easy as it sounds… go to your bookshelf and pick five books (easy, don’t over think it). List them. List five quotes. Whatever your eye goes towards. Done. List 1: Hug Time by Patrick McDonnell Elements of Style (illustrated) by Strunk, White, Kalman What Customers Want by Anthony W. Ulwick The Amazing STory…
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Today I awoke at 7am with a revelation in my mind instead of dream remnants: Gods are inspiration. Personas are presentation. Secret Personas are secret.
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I come from a line of strong women and I need to be strong now. Grannies (and consequently my parents who are first-born– and have a few siblings each) had to raise a brood on their own because their husbands died early. My father is still alive but he’s always been into “escaping” because his…
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https://soundcloud.com/katarina-countiss/play What is Toxic Love? It’s peer pressure. They wanted to protect us but they didn’t know us. What they showed us and said “this” was not for us and we had to be stronger than our parents’ certainty. They wanted to give us wings when we already had some… they forced these appendages on…
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10 songs I love because I love myself I love them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A59Wqrl-x6U “The bells. They Play Their Songs for You.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r_wtWpz2ow Folk Implosion – Merry Go Down (1999)- “Heaven’s daughter underwater conversations” Meet Virgina https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDIFD6for4A “She thinks I’m Beautiful” “she only Drinks Coffee at Midnight when the moment’s not right.” “Intuition Magic” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0S8cnzav_g I walked…
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(I use “I” and “You” interchangably, so please don’t get offended. I’m never talking about “you you” just the proverbial you, and the proverbial “we”.) Why we can’t have nice things… I am a democratic creature at the moment. I don’t care about expensive baubles. But, my elders still give them to me as gifts,…
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Last night, I gave a five minute presentation on Kaleidescopy to an audience of over 500 people! Here are some tweets from the event, Ignite Seattle 26. Get the full story at #is26 @KatCountiss I really enjoyed your talk on art/beauty and starting as an artist ! #is26 Iterate! 1) find beauty in something you wouldn’t expect.…
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Preface: I am translating Letters to a Young Poet: Rainer Maria Rilke, M.D. Herter Norton: 9780393310399: Amazon.com: Books. It’s a beautiful book, but very dense. I am translating it to a blog post series hoping to churn it into an easily consumed butter instead of the choppy dense planetoid that it is. The first four paragraphs of…
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