“Frank Sinatra Has a Cold” ran in April 1966 and became one of the most celebrated magazine stories ever published, a pioneering example of what came to be called New Journalism — a work of rigorously faithful fact enlivened with the kind of vivid storytelling that had previously been reserved for fiction.
“I’d look out of the cab window, the Bombay air humid and exhausting, the neon lights pink and bright, the lovers on Marine Drive no longer audacious. People who live here, I reminded myself, read novels written by management school graduates.”
Siddharth Shanghvi, cutting through it.
Art Every Day Tasks (Edited)
Visit a museum or gallery
Take a street art walking tour
Take a photo
Research an artist
Create something handmade and give it to someone
Sign up for an art class
Create a floral or stone arrangement
Make a self-portrait
Doodle for 10 minutes straight
Frame something you have been meaning to frame
Sketch somebody and give them the picture
Check out an art book at the library
Break something. (You have to destroy in order to create!)
Make a collage
Support the local arts scene by going to a local festival, music event, art show, play, museum exhibit, etc.
Draw some chalk art on the sidewalk
Make origami
Finger paint
Illustrate a song that inspires you
Draw the best part of today
Close your eyes and draw for five minutes
Draw yourself as a cartoon
Take your camera with you on a walk and document the experience
Jeeves: “My advice, sir, would be to fortify yourself for the ordeal.”
Bertie: “How…?”
Jeeves: “There are always cocktails, sir. Shall I pour you another?”
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