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On Method

Published by Olly Blackburn

This article grossly generalises ‘the Method’, which is probably not a helpful term to use these days. Lee Strasberg has radical differences to Stella Adler likewise both to Stanford Meisner… and these days actors are probably imbibing a bit from all regions of the ‘method’ (i.e. acting practices inspired by Stanislawski) universe. But it describes […]

Words for the Day… by Arthur Rimbaud

Published by Olly Blackburn

I’m now making myself as scummy as I can. Why? I want to be a poet, and I’m working at turning myself into a seer. You won’t understand any of this, and I’m almost incapable of explaining it to you. The idea is to reach the unknown by the derangement of all the senses. It […]

Words for the Day… by Italo Calvino

Published by Olly Blackburn

This is what I mean when I say I would like to swim against the stream of time: I would like to erase the consequences of certain events and restore an initial condition. But every moment of my life brings with it an accumulation of new facts, and each of these new facts bring with […]

Words for the Day… by Malcolm McLaren

Published by Olly Blackburn

I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow […]

Words for the Day… by Malcolm X

Published by Olly Blackburn

My alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.