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What happens to unreadable mail?

Excellent video by Tom Scott on what happens with unreadable mail. These are envelopes where the mailing address cannot be read by the automatic processing of local USPS facilities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxCha4Kez9c

Basic Process

  • Local Processing Plant automatic processing. Something is unreadable.
  • A picture of the unreadable mail gets sent to the remote encoding center
  • If it is read in time then the piece of mail is able to stay “within automation” at the local processing plant. If it isn’t read in time then there is a second chance when it is sent through the local processing plant again a couple of hours later.
  • The guessed address is compared to the known address database. If there is only one matching address then that is that. If there are multiple similar addresses, then one needs to be selected from the matches from the database.

In the past there have been more of these encoding centers. But over time the trends are that fewer people are addressing their mail by hand and that the automatic processing technology is becoming better and better.

More information on USPS history and envelope history here.

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Productivity Tricks For The Creatively Inclined

Kadenze is an open online course provider that I have been a longtime fan of. They recently posted a great article on their blog about productivity tricks for artists. Check it out here: https://blog.kadenze.com/student-life/productivity-tricks-for-the-creatively-inclined/

There are a few techniques that have helped me greatly over my career. ‘Start on a creative task first’ has been helpful especially when tackling large new projects and getting through creative slumps.  ‘Use the Pomodoro technique’ is a tactic that I use sparingly, but has been especially helpful when I am concerned that I may veer offtrack with a task and lose focus on a higher objective.

There are a few tricks listed that I am not familiar with. I am excited to try ideas in the ‘Visualize your workflow,’ ‘Write in a bullet journal,’ and ‘Leave time for doodling or freewriting.’

Nice article from Kadenze and thanks again for offering such cool creative classes online! I have taken Financial Planning for Creative Careers (Columbus College of Art & Design), Loop: Repetition and Variation in Music (University College Cork), Sound Production in Ableton Live for Musicians and Artists (CalArts). I look forward to taking more!

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Get To Work

Get To Work

“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work.

If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to do an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction.

Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.”

— Chuck Close

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Richard Tuttle Makes Tools for Life

Richard Tuttle Makes Tools for Life

by Ian Forster|Jul 22, 2016

Detail of Section VII, Extension I (2007) at Pace Gallery in New York City.
Production still from the series ART21 Exclusive. © ART21, Inc. 2016. Cinematography: Jarred Alterman.

“Art’s importance comes when it’s a tool for life, when it makes life more available for us.”

— Richard Tuttle

Today’s ART21 Exclusive features Richard Tuttle reflecting on a decades-long career, and the conceptual, thematic, and stylistic threads that can be consistently traced through his 26 New York gallery exhibitions. Tuttle was interviewed at Pace Gallery, where fittingly his installation 26 provided an archival record of these solo shows, collectively exposing a profound intimacy in postminimalism.

“I’m very committed to the idea of making an art that stays contemporary,” says Tuttle. The artist goes on to describe his interest in creating works that fuse together “the kinds of things that only happen once and the kinds of things that happen always.” Tuttle also shares advice for young artists and reflects on the value of art: “Art’s importance comes when it’s a tool for life, when it makes life more available for us.”

ART21 Exclusive is supported, in part, by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; 21c Museum Hotel, and by individual contributors.

CREDITS: Producer: Ian Forster. Consulting Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Ian Forster. Editor: Jarred Alterman. Camera: Jarred Alterman. Sound: Ian Forster. Artwork Courtesy: Richard Tuttle & Pace Gallery. Archival Photography Courtesy: Duane Michals. Courtesy of DC Moore Gallery, New York & Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

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Ian Forster is a producer at ART21. He joined the staff in October 2009, first working on ART21

William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible

and subsequently ART21

Art in the Twenty-First Century

Season 6 and Season 7. In addition to his work on ART21′s broadcast programming for PBS, Forster oversees the Web video series ART21

Exclusive

and ART21

Artist to Artist

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Banksy: Geographic profiling ‘proves’ artist really is Robin Gunningham, according to scientists | People | News | The Independent

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Watch Kandinsky Create an Abstract Composition

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel back in time and look over the shoulder of one of the early 20th century’s greatest artists to watch him work? Here you go, watch Wassily Kandinsky create an abstract composition.

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How Did Picasso Create 50,000 Works of Art?

Barbara Cortland broke the world record – in 1983, she wrote 23 novels. She was 82 years old. Two novels a month that year. Altogether she wrote 723 published novels. Her last at age 97. When she died a year later there were 160 unpublished novels still waiting to be published. Did people like her […]

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Michael Weinstein, RIP

By Brian Hieggelke I once asked Michael Weinstein—who passed away suddenly after an aortic aneurysm at home last week at the age of seventy-three—why he recommended every photography show he reviewed for us, in nearly every single issue of Newcity beginning in 1990 and up to and including the edition you’re reading right now. He […]

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