Tim Barrus Blog
Posts tagged with creativity
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TIM BARRUS ON CREATIVITY NEW YORK TIMES
Civil moderation is the status quo at the New York Times. I have begged them to define what civil means. But they are literally not capable of it. The editing is infantile, ignorant, and borders on illiteracy. I wanted to write this differently. But here goes. Kathleen Kingsbury is the…
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Tim Barrus: Some Creative Misfits Get It
Some odd creative types construct their own reality. Not too much gets through.
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Why Is There a Cougar In the Kitchen
Creativity is to listen to the sound of scratching, and your entire body begins to burn. How to make the complicated simple. It’s important to arrive at the act of explaining, but never explain. Let it speak for itself. Then, walk away. You did it. It’s finished. It’s never finished.…
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Poverty IS Public Policy
And time stopped. Over the years, I fostered boys with HIV. I am glad (there could be perhaps some hope in it) that good people have good kids. Homo sapiens are not good it. We are the species of love and death. It is a fetish. All cultures have them.…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
I grab nostalgia in a death grip. I slam it in my writing. I have no choice. When I’m not writing, I go mad. When I am not involved with photography, I go mad. When I don’t have either one, I shut down. I rock. I become catatonic. Nostalgia is…
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Spills Into Cups
their dancing spills into cups incognito but i know who the fuck you are/ your bones spread out like demons deep into the devil night/ and there it is, falls down, the challenge is to not allow the world to make you disappear, it will anyway, we are just the…
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What Cure
The Smash Street Boys and I wrote a book called JUST BEFORE THE CURE. We put the thing on Medium. One person read it. Sex, violence, and post-apocalyptic resistance were the project’s main themes. My original idea was that it could raise the awareness of the adolescent boys themselves as…
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CinemathequeFilms: Les Russes à Paris
CinemathequeFilms did not disintegrate like a melted marsh mellow grimace of 16mm film burned at the alter of my untimely demise. We never did get that license. We just kept making videos. We could pick and choose who saw them. Usually, only people who had cheered them on in France.…
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Death Watch Journal
POETRY AS HEALING When Neal implodes into himself, he begins to look like a zombi. Neal has multiple issues. One would be sexual abuse in school. He does not even remember school. Another would be Alec who Neal sees as someone never confused and always strong. Two issues. There is…
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ChopShop
I bought my first bike from him. And then, I stayed 4 a week. He sold a lot of bikes, none of them legally. My new hog looked exactly like a hog I had looked at across town. I know what’s for sale and my ass was one of those…