![Blogging is Correspondence (with quicker edits!)
This blog is a project, and it has two goals:
1. To document what happens when you decide to quit one career for another.
2. To tackle the subject of making and taking in art in a language that is, hopefully, not too boring.
Standard Info
My name is Libby Lynn. I grew up in Denver. Now I live in Durham, North Carolina. As of 2009, I’m 35 years old.I’ve been inconsistently blogging for a decade. Scary. Managing a chain of liquor stores in Alabama, getting a BA from Auburn University and playing in a bunch of punk rock bands led to an interesting career. It started with advertising jingles, then radio and TV production, then DJ’ing, then viral marketing, then ad copywriting, then porn marketing. In August of 2007, I quit a lucrative 15-year career to study studio art at NCCU, a historically black university in downtown Durham.
[aside - advice for wannabe art-types:]
Art school is a racket. The only reason why I’ve committed to obtaining another useless BA degree is because I promised many loved ones that I could do it. I wish I could take that promise back.
If you’re thinking about going to art school, take a couple (drawing!! film photography!! old school crafts!!) classes at your local arts center or community college before you pay a million financial-aid dollars for a degree that will never serve your financial needs. You can learn almost everything through apprenticeships, the internet, libraries and conversations. Resourcefulness and clever minds remain your only teachers.
Without pause, and especially if you’re as broke as the rest of us, and in lieu of 4-12 years of academia, consider craft schools like Penland (NC), Arrowmont (TN), Brookfield Craft Center (CT), Women’s Studio Workshop (NY), Worcester Center for Crafts (MA), Sawtooth Center (NC), Haliburton School of the Arts (ON, Canada), and definitely Haystack (ME).
For more craft school and class info, here’s a good resource. Tip: Go for the workstudy and scholarship programs. Harder work, stronger tenacity, more life-long connections.
For actual money, I work at a small boutique adult store in town.
Talk with me: rollertrain@gmail.com.
(MOSTLY UNNECESSARY LEGAL DISCLAIMER: All opinions expressed on rollertrain are exclusively mine, meant for entertainment purposes only, and don’t represent any policies or practices or any shit that might cause trouble.)](http://4.media.tumblr.com/kfibP3zrM2nucl1cTuuYrNDTo1_r1_400.jpg)
Blogging is Correspondence (with quicker edits!)
This blog is a project, and it has two goals:
1. To document what happens when you decide to quit one career for another.
2. To tackle the subject of making and taking in art in a language that is, hopefully, not too boring.
Standard Info
My name is Libby Lynn. I grew up in Denver. Now I live in Durham, North Carolina. As of 2009, I’m 35 years old.
I’ve been inconsistently blogging for a decade. Scary.
Managing a chain of liquor stores in Alabama, getting a BA from Auburn University and playing in a bunch of punk rock bands led to an interesting career. It started with advertising jingles, then radio and TV production, then DJ’ing, then viral marketing, then ad copywriting, then porn marketing.
In August of 2007, I quit a lucrative 15-year career to study studio art at NCCU, a historically black university in downtown Durham.
[aside - advice for wannabe art-types:]
Art school is a racket. The only reason why I’ve committed to obtaining another useless BA degree is because I promised many loved ones that I could do it. I wish I could take that promise back.
If you’re thinking about going to art school, take a couple (drawing!! film photography!! old school crafts!!) classes at your local arts center or community college before you pay a million financial-aid dollars for a degree that will never serve your financial needs. You can learn almost everything through apprenticeships, the internet, libraries and conversations. Resourcefulness and clever minds remain your only teachers.
Without pause, and especially if you’re as broke as the rest of us, and in lieu of 4-12 years of academia, consider craft schools like Penland (NC), Arrowmont (TN), Brookfield Craft Center (CT), Women’s Studio Workshop (NY), Worcester Center for Crafts (MA), Sawtooth Center (NC), Haliburton School of the Arts (ON, Canada), and definitely Haystack (ME).
For more craft school and class info, here’s a good resource. Tip: Go for the workstudy and scholarship programs. Harder work, stronger tenacity, more life-long connections.
For actual money, I work at a small boutique adult store in town.
Talk with me: rollertrain@gmail.com.
(MOSTLY UNNECESSARY LEGAL DISCLAIMER: All opinions expressed on rollertrain are exclusively mine, meant for entertainment purposes only, and don’t represent any policies or practices or any shit that might cause trouble.)
