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    • Lichtenbergianism: Step 2
    • Glossary
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    • 0. The Airport Version
    • 1. Task Avoidance
    • 2. Waste Books
    • 3. Abortive Attempts
    • 4. Gestalt
    • 5. Successive Approximation
    • 6. Ritual
    • 7. Steal from the Best
    • 8. Audience
    • 9. Abandonment
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    • March from the Dark Side
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March 29, 2022

Wasting time for composer/musicians

March 29, 2022/ Dale Lyles
Wasting time for composer/musicians

In which I give my fellow composers a perfectly cromulent TASK AVOIDANCE strategy…

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Artists, Composing
Task Avoidance, Steal from the Best
March 11, 2022

Fun Friday Resources

March 11, 2022/ Dale Lyles
Fun Friday Resources

In which I look at asemic writing, glyphs, and the visual alphabet…

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Resources, Artists, Education
Waste Books, Steal from the Best
December 08, 2021

How to waste art supplies

December 08, 2021/ Dale Lyles
How to waste art supplies

In which I give explicit instructions — EXPLICIT INSTRUCTIONS — on how to waste art supplies productively…

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Artists, Creative Spirit, Materials
Abortive Attempts
November 24, 2021

Guest Lichtenbergian: Helen Frankenthaler

November 24, 2021/ Dale Lyles
Guest Lichtenbergian: Helen Frankenthaler

In which I share an article wherein Helen Frankenthaler teaches us (me) a thing or two…

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Artists, Creative Spirit, Guest Lichtenbergian, Lichtenbergianism
Abortive Attempts, Gestalt, Successive Approximation
November 08, 2021

New art: Al Petelin

November 08, 2021/ Dale Lyles
New art: Al Petelin

In which I interview an exciting young artist from Astrakhan…

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Artists
October 11, 2021

A lesson in STEALING FROM THE BEST, part 1

October 11, 2021/ Dale Lyles
A lesson in STEALING FROM THE BEST, part 1

In which I give you an assignment to STEAL FROM THE BEST…

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Artists
Steal from the Best
October 04, 2021

The ABORTIVE ATTEMPT cycle in database design

October 04, 2021/ Dale Lyles
The ABORTIVE ATTEMPT cycle in database design

In which I demonstrate the ABORTIVE ATTEMPT cycle using our art collection and a database in FileMaker Pro…

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Strategies, Artists
Abortive Attempts
September 24, 2021

Fun Friday Resources

September 24, 2021/ Dale Lyles
Fun Friday Resources

In which I share some advice from artists you should know…

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Artists, Resources, Lichtenbergianism
Abortive Attempts, Steal from the Best
September 20, 2021

ABORTIVE ATTEMPTS for 4-year-olds

September 20, 2021/ Dale Lyles
ABORTIVE ATTEMPTS for 4-year-olds

In which I host a guest Lichtenbergian, my master-builder great-nephew…

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Artists, Guest Lichtenbergian, Lessons from the Folk
Abortive Attempts
September 08, 2021

Calder and Rowe

September 08, 2021/ Dale Lyles
Calder and Rowe

In which I examine the works of Alexander Calder and Nellie Mae Rowe for Lichtenbergian lessons…

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Artists
Abortive Attempts
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    • Glossary
  • Blog/
  • The Nine Precepts/
    • 0. The Airport Version
    • 1. Task Avoidance
    • 2. Waste Books
    • 3. Abortive Attempts
    • 4. Gestalt
    • 5. Successive Approximation
    • 6. Ritual
    • 7. Steal from the Best
    • 8. Audience
    • 9. Abandonment
  • The Books/
    • The Book
    • Young Person's Guide
  • About/Now/
  • Burn Projects/
    • GALAXY
    • GALAXY Soundtrack
    • March from the Dark Side
  • Contact/Hire Me/

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