Rules (Updated)
Rule 1
Never screw over a collaborator
Rule 2
Focus on process, not results
Rule 3
Don’t believe what you’re told
Rule 5
Never make excuses
Rule 6
Never waste talent
Rule 7
Always work as a team
Rule 8
Put in more than you want out
Rule 9
Never take anything for granted
Rule 10
Always carry a knife
Rule 11
Talking about work and work are not the same thing
Rule 12
Leave the site exactly as you found it
Rule 13
When the show is over, walk away
Rule 16
Never involve lawyers
Rule 17
Bend the lines, don’t break them
Rule 18
Instinct is not the same as impulse
Rule 19
Appreciate failure, this is where growth occurs
Rule 20
It’s better to seek forgiveness than ask permission
Rule 21
Protect the time and space in which you work
Rule 23
Always carry a camera
Rule 25
Snacks are surprisingly really important
Rule:26
Always remember we’re doing this because we love it
Rule 27
If you feel like you are being taken advantage of … you are
Rule 28
Avoid wearing shoes, they break your connection with the space
Rule 29
Don’t waste people’s time, and don’t let others waste yours
Rule 30
There is no such thing as coincidence, the universe is telling you something
sometimes it’s saying “no”
Rule 31
Be transparent with your collaborators:
they can do more when they have a complete understanding of what is going on
and very helpful when you do not
(a) the reverse for you: show up clean/leave dirty
Rule 33
Be the first to arrive and the last to leave
Rule 34
Don’t work on Monday
(a): Ghosts exist, give them one day/night a week alone in the space
Rule 35
Don’t work for free; don’t ask others to work for free
(a) music stands are amateurish
Rule 38
If you have nothing to say
don’t feel obliged to pretend you do
Rule 39
Respect your performers
Their job is 10 times more dangerous than yours
Rule 40
Never expect dogs, cats, birds, or any other animals to do what you’d like them to do
(a) Sharka is an exception to this rule
Rule 41
Don’t quote other artists or productions unless you have to
Rule 42
Make up for a lack of (financial) means with an increase in imagination
Rule 43
A tight schedule can be difficult…
having too much time is worse
Rule 44
Less make-up is better
Rule 45
Fewer words are always better!
Rule 46
The more you know about “performance”
the tougher it gets to leave that knowledge behind
As soon as you do things “because you know how to do them”
you’re fucked
Rule 47
A “beautiful image”
can very well be the worst thing that can happen to your work
Rule 48
If you aren’t making art
you aren’t an artist
Work
Rule 49
If an idea doesn’t terrify you
if you aren’t fairly certain you will fail
it probably isn’t good enough
Rule 50
Know when your work is shit
Never be afraid to throw it all out and start over
Rule 51
Photographing is easy
Directing is hard
Neither is as hard as real work
So, never complain
No one will give you any sympathy anyway
Rule 52
Embrace mistakes
If you are working with good artists
they will use a mistake
make the work richer and more the stuff of life
Rule 53
Most bloggers are not critics
most are guys who can afford a laptop
Take them as seriously as that
even if they love you
Especially if they love you
(a) Susan Sontag was a genius
Rule 55
Don’t have style
Maybe you do
but you should never know what it is
(a) A performance should have a style
your job is to figure out what that is and execute it
Rule 56
Above everything else, you are a storyteller
Tell the story
Rule 57
When someone tells you something can’t be done
have patience and ask them to try it again
(a) maybe it can
if you just ignore one of your stupid rules
Rule 58
Be grateful
in failure or success
Rule 59
Be brave
if you aren’t brave
you are not an artists
and whether you are artists or not
that’s what you should strive to be
Rule 60
You are never the smartest person in the room
just the luckiest
Posted on Saturday, September 10th, 2016 at . Filed under: Engineering, Solipsism Tags: Notes RSS 2.0 feed.
this is how we ROLL
for someone who breaks the rules you have a lot of rules!
Rule 61?
None of the above is necessarily correct.