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            <title>Suggestions to improve our Village - The Visual Music Village</title>
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            <updated>2026-04-05T02:52:10Z</updated>
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                    <title>The creative process</title>
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                                        <id>tag:visualmusic.ning.com,2016-01-04:2232935:Topic:80565</id>
                                        <updated>2016-01-04T03:08:06.091Z</updated>
                    
                                            <author>
                            <name>Jean Detheux</name>
                            <uri>https://visualmusic.ning.com/profile/JeanDetheux</uri>
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                    <summary type="html">
                        &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sfmoma.org/watch/philip-guston-mysteries-of-the-working-process/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Philip Guston&#039;s process&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is so far from the anal retentive conceptual BS we are inundated with today. And much of that BS can be attributed to “art” schools, where the lie that is being taught posits “knowing what to do before doing it&quot; as absolutely necessary.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;span&gt;For Guston and his colleagues, it was, no, IS, the absolute opposite of being creative.…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;                    </summary>

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                            &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sfmoma.org/watch/philip-guston-mysteries-of-the-working-process/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Philip Guston&#039;s process&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is so far from the anal retentive conceptual BS we are inundated with today. And much of that BS can be attributed to “art” schools, where the lie that is being taught posits “knowing what to do before doing it&quot; as absolutely necessary.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;For Guston and his colleagues, it was, no, IS, the absolute opposite of being creative. The key is to become able, willing, of working “by way of not knowing.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;The rest is only pretending to be art, “camp” as my friend (and Philip Guston’s) Mercedes Matter used to call it. (If interested, read this: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.animationstudies.org%2F%3Fp%3D680&amp;amp;h=GAQFOUazKAQE7lSA5JmL58wx0_vUW6o_JWEBsM0DQv5Dk5Q&amp;amp;enc=AZMmoRo1rVJKHSnlW0WvfYt56M2RGX1otptvR5_1hz_HxAffA_ZO-EW2buo4BX-FRRxQt6NTBAsglC3xllEMv0Pf5xXz-6K6j0Aeb7hLyw0jsVs9PFkr1H5FSl5fgbm7-1TuWYSyiQY3U8IgVxQavhZiZme4ZzqnyVvwFulWggLfhc04hsnRd3LqzC6O6r5TJ1CvFbnYs9VriY4ZceAXUR8C&amp;amp;s=1&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.animationstudies.org/?p=680&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;                        </content>
                    
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                            <entry>
                    <title>Delete video \correct typos</title>
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                                        <id>tag:visualmusic.ning.com,2008-11-15:2232935:Topic:3565</id>
                                        <updated>2008-11-15T16:33:59.000Z</updated>
                    
                                            <author>
                            <name>Terry King</name>
                            <uri>https://visualmusic.ning.com/profile/TerryKing</uri>
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                    <summary type="html">
                        Is there any way I can delete one of my video clips or change typos once entered? thanks , Terry King                    </summary>

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                            Is there any way I can delete one of my video clips or change typos once entered? thanks , Terry King                        </content>
                    
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                            <entry>
                    <title>Roots and origins</title>
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                                        <id>tag:visualmusic.ning.com,2008-09-22:2232935:Topic:1408</id>
                                        <updated>2008-09-22T17:51:42.000Z</updated>
                    
                                            <author>
                            <name>Jean Piché</name>
                            <uri>https://visualmusic.ning.com/profile/JeanPiche</uri>
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                    <summary type="html">
                        I was surprised, when subscribing, that the list of interests/pratices offered for selection did not have choices for people originating from the music side of things... Is this omission revealing of the tenets of the genre, or perhaps its the historical roots?&lt;br /&gt;
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Congratulations for this new initiative! Most welcome and useful.&lt;br /&gt;
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jp                    </summary>

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                            I was surprised, when subscribing, that the list of interests/pratices offered for selection did not have choices for people originating from the music side of things... Is this omission revealing of the tenets of the genre, or perhaps its the historical roots?&lt;br /&gt;
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Congratulations for this new initiative! Most welcome and useful.&lt;br /&gt;
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jp                        </content>
                    
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                            <entry>
                    <title>About the Visual Music Village</title>
                    <link rel="alternate" href="http://visualmusic.ning.com/xn/detail/2232935:Topic:150"/>
                                        <id>tag:visualmusic.ning.com,2008-09-02:2232935:Topic:150</id>
                                        <updated>2008-09-02T17:50:42.000Z</updated>
                    
                                            <author>
                            <name>Larry Cuba</name>
                            <uri>https://visualmusic.ning.com/profile/3d11x6j4u442r</uri>
                        </author>
                    
                    <summary type="html">
                        This topic is where you can comment on the VM Village itself, complain, make suggestions, etc. How is this helping you, how is it not?                    </summary>

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                            This topic is where you can comment on the VM Village itself, complain, make suggestions, etc. How is this helping you, how is it not?                        </content>
                    
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