About
The nature of the creative impulse, or how to actualize an idea.
Instructions to the Self. Invite inspiration through seeking and look inside the self and expand the scope to the external and collective. When it hits you, it’s like a download from god, or gravity or whichever all-pervasive force you prefer.
Impressions relate to our clumsy senses, perceptions based on experience and ideas of self, then we decide “like” or “dislike” based on how these cues resonate with our own BEINGS.
Who we are, versus who we think we are, versus who we want to be.
It’s all vibration and in so many forms! A voice in your head, a memory,
a dream, a daydream. A hallucination.
An image that won’t go away when you close your eyes -
an extreme emotion
a wish .
a rare truth spoken through a friend …
There aren’t any new colors or musical notes. What’s the point in looking for new ones? And even if we found one, there would be no way to relate to it. Anything new would only add to the confusion, so we have to build on what we know.
The game relies on how and what we combine.
These are the laws we have to live under.
Not social laws, these laws are bigger, more important, yet simpler.
Frequency.
Everything is vibration. Learn to work within limitations.
Rely on the accident while trying to avoid it. Force things into shape, let them take their own direction, and kick them back into form.
Let ideas evolve.
Break away from convention, previous successes or failures.
Build something new and useful from the broken parts.
Evolve.
A new power comes from working past the point of frustration, ask any athlete. If we become overwhelmed, we lose.
Do not quit.
Eliminate this word from your vocabulary. Give more than you’re capable of. Avoid caring what other people will think.
All of this defines real work. Be unmerciful with yourself. Learn to love it, pushing yourself past the point of pleasure and pain. You have more energy than you think you do. These words contain clues.
Ignore or destroy anything that stands in your way
and
more important than anything:
Don’t be afraid to BLEED.
Copy: Cochise
Art Director: Alexandria von Bromssen
BLEED Magazine is an independent publication based in San Francisco.
