Making Minutes
June 15, 2008
About three weeks ago, I got an email from Greg about his Two Minutes project. I forgot to check out the project itself, but the the idea was so inspiring I set about creating Minute Minute Month. (Six songs down, seven to go...)Then several of my friends got inspired and started making their own versions of Minute Minute Month-- found here and here. I mean, it's such a helpful creature of a project: you have deadlines which force you to make art. Regularly. And it's tiny amounts of art, so you get to learn all about working within constraints, all while getting it done in a tiny amount of time.
I stumbled back upon the original email from Greg and finally wrote back, telling him his idea is brilliant (check out Juror #6 and Juror #10) and here was his lovely reply:
Olga,
I don't know why it took so long, but I only just now pieced together that Olga-from-Fabulist is Olga Nunes, WebElf, whose music I've been listening to since a link to her Myspace went up on Neil Gaiman's blog. Your Myspace. Whatever. Several parts of my favourite little corner of the Internet just fell into place.
In any case, I love, love your stuff. (Especially, at the moment, Gloomy Sunday, which I just discovered.)
And I'm extraordinarily glad/excited/flattered that you're enjoying Two Minutes. Even more so that other people are doing the same thing. Max, I'm sure, will feel the same, once I've delivered the news.
Minute Minute Month is breathtaking, by the way.
Best,
Greg
So there you have it. I'm going to post about this on the Fabulist, too, and see if we can start a tiny artist minute-project revolution.
Posted by Olga at 11:21 AM | Comments (0)
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