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August 09, 2015

Remembering How to Play

August 09, 2015/ Ant Gray
Remembering How to Play

Play is essential to creativity. This issue is about remembering how to do it.

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August 09, 2015/ Ant Gray/
Art and creativity, Perfectionism, Writers and writing
Anaïs Nin, Askesian Society, Child development, Creativity, Kurt Vonnegut, Luke Howard, Meteorology, Play, Tom Waits
August 02, 2015

'This is not a spear': Racism, real and imagined insults, and unimaginable hurt

August 02, 2015/ Ant Gray
'This is not a spear': Racism, real and imagined insults, and unimaginable hurt

Racism hurts all of us because—as Martin Luther King Jr. wrote from a Birmingham jail cell—we are all "caught in an inescapable network of mutuality."

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August 02, 2015/ Ant Gray/
Politics and opinion
'Racist', Adam Goodes, AFL, Australian football, Celeste Liddle, Haka, Lewis Jetta, Martin Luther King, Nietzsche, Racism
July 26, 2015

Ten Tiny Tasks: How to kick-start any creative project

July 26, 2015/ Ant Gray
Ten Tiny Tasks: How to kick-start any creative project

Got a project you’ve always been meaning to start but felt it was all too hard? This issue is for you.

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July 26, 2015/ Ant Gray/
365 Artist dates, Art and creativity, Perfectionism
Julia Cameron, Lao Tzu, The Artist's Way
July 19, 2015

Murakami: With the crack of a bat, he decided to become a writer

July 19, 2015/ Ant Gray
Murakami: With the crack of a bat, he decided to become a writer

The day the Japanese author Haruki Murakami discovered he wanted to be a writer and how, later, he found his voice.

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July 19, 2015/ Ant Gray/
Art and creativity, Writers and writing
1973 (Book), Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing (Book), Pinball, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Book)
July 12, 2015

I gave Louis C.K. five dollars: Paying artists should be easier

July 12, 2015/ Ant Gray
I gave Louis C.K. five dollars: Paying artists should be easier

Paying artists should be way easier than it is.

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July 12, 2015/ Ant Gray/
Art and creativity, Music and musicmaking, Politics and opinion
Dead Kennedys, Haruki Murakami, Homelessness, iTunes, Jaron Lanier, Jello Biafra, Louis C-K-, Radiohead, Spotify, Talyor Swift
July 05, 2015

Make art like nobody's watching

July 05, 2015/ Ant Gray
Make art like nobody's watching

All about having time to play, and making stuff for yourself first before showing others.

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July 05, 2015/ Ant Gray/
Adventures in psychoanalysis, Art and creativity, Perfectionism, Writers and writing
D-W- Winnicott, Penrose triangle, Psychoanalysis, The True Self and the False Self, Tom Waits
June 28, 2015

Beyond the Anger Economy

June 28, 2015/ Ant Gray
Beyond the Anger Economy

This week’s post is inspired by the 2015 US Supreme Court ruling on same sex marriage and the idea: “In a society that profits from your self doubt, liking yourself is a rebellious act.”

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June 28, 2015/ Ant Gray/
Politics and opinion
Australian politics, Bodies (Book), Body Image, Capitalism, Caroline Caldwell, Facebook, LGBT pride, marriage equality, Social media, Susie Orbach, US Supreme Court
June 21, 2015

The morning has gold in its mouth: Stephen King on writing

June 21, 2015/ Ant Gray
The morning has gold in its mouth: Stephen King on writing

An online zine about Stephen King and Stanley Kubrick's version of The Shining.

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June 21, 2015/ Ant Gray/
Art and creativity, Writers and writing
"Carrie" (Book), "It" (Book), "On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft" (Book), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Stephen King, The Shining (Book), The Shining (Film)
June 14, 2015

The Psychopathology of the Dark Side

June 14, 2015/ Ant Gray
The Psychopathology of the Dark Side

About breasts, cinema and the Dark Side.

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June 14, 2015/ Ant Gray/
Adventures in psychoanalysis
breastfeeding, childhood development, Maya Angelou, Object Relations Theory, Psychoanalysis, Star Wars, The dark side, The Death Star, The Force, Virginia Woolf
June 07, 2015

How can I be you, Louise Bourgeois?

June 07, 2015/ Ant Gray
How can I be you, Louise Bourgeois?

Part one of double issue that looks at the amazing work of French-American artist and sculptor, Louise Bourgeois.

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June 07, 2015/ Ant Gray/
365 Artist dates, Art and creativity, Perfectionism
"Daily Rituals" (Book), "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", "Kitchen Confidential" (Book), "Steal Like an Artist" (Book), "The Great Gatsby", ''Insomnia Drawings'', Anthony Bourdain, Arsène Houssaye, Austin Kleon, F- Scott Fitzgerald, Hunter S- Thompson, Louise Bourgeois, Mason Currey, T- S- Eliot
June 07, 2015

Louise Bourgeois: Intimate connections

June 07, 2015/ Ant Gray
Louise Bourgeois: Intimate connections

Part two of a double issue on Louise Bourgeois: a special interview with a midwife. Kind of like ‘Interview with a Vampire,’ but less Tom Cruise jumping up and down on a couch.

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June 07, 2015/ Ant Gray/
Art and creativity, Interviews
"Maman", breastfeeding, Julia Kristeva, Louise Bourgeois, midwifery, umbilical cord
May 31, 2015

How can I be you?

May 31, 2015/ Ant Gray
How can I be you?

This issue is about thinking less in terms of deficits; more thinking about potential and what to do to capitalise on it.

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May 31, 2015/ Ant Gray/
365 Artist dates, Art and creativity
Ira Glass, Robert Smith, The Cure, This American Life
May 24, 2015

Hoffman's challenge

May 24, 2015/ Ant Gray
Hoffman's challenge

A short while back past Rabbit Hole contributor Matt Roberts and I dared a friend of ours to make something out of a story he told us about Dustin Hoffman—and he did!

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May 24, 2015/ Ant Gray/
Art and creativity, Music and musicmaking, Writers and writing
"A Rich Tapestry", "Band of the Run" (Album), "Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me)" (Song), Dustin Hoffman, John Lennon, Kurt Vonnegut, Paul McCartney, Picasso, Wings
May 23, 2015

Bukowski's advice

May 23, 2015/ Ant Gray
Bukowski's advice

Reading Charles Bukowski’s work confirms my sneaking suspicion that art is not as hard as I make it.

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May 23, 2015/ Ant Gray/
Art and creativity, Perfectionism, Writers and writing
"Notes of a Dirty Old Man" (Book), "so you want to be a writer?" (Poem), "writers block" (Poem), Charles Bukowski, Linda Bukowski, William Packard
May 17, 2015

Zombie Projects

May 17, 2015/ Ant Gray
Zombie Projects

I’ve got an apocalypse worth of unfinished projects. But rather than keeping hold of them, I’m wondering if I need to mourn them a little and then put them, and me, out of our misery.

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May 17, 2015/ Ant Gray/
A Radio Show on Paper, Art and creativity, Writers and writing
"Alabama" (Song), "John Dies at the End" (Novel), 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, Arthur Quiller-Couch, David Wong, George Harrison, John Coltrane, John Lennon, Martin Luther King, Max Brooks, R-D- Laing, The Beatles, Writing, Zombies
May 10, 2015

Blink-long stories

May 10, 2015/ Ant Gray
Blink-long stories

A super short piece about super short pieces, including the shortest novel ever written (supposedly).

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May 10, 2015/ Ant Gray/
Writers and writing
"Knock" (Story), “Cull” (Story), Blaise Pascal, Book clubs, David Gaffney, Ernest Hemingway, Flash fiction, Fredric Brown, Hint fiction, L-R- Bonehill, Margaret Atwood, Micro fiction, Rebecca Miller, Robert Swartwood, Smoke longs, The Very Hungry Caterpillar
May 03, 2015

Pareidolia: Two Memories of Death

May 03, 2015/ Ant Gray
Pareidolia: Two Memories of Death

A short piece about budgies, death and a giant rabbit that lives on the moon.

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May 03, 2015/ Ant Gray/
365 Artist dates, Art and creativity
"Aubade" (Poem), "Draw, "Print Like the Great Artists" (Book), "The Smile of the Flamboyant Wings" (Painting), André Masson, Apollo 11, Automatic Drawing, Joan Miró, Marion Denchars, Michael Collins, Paint, Pareidolia, Phillip Larkin
May 02, 2015

A Rabbit Hole of Denial

May 02, 2015/ Ant Gray
A Rabbit Hole of Denial

In this week’s double issue, my good friend Matt Roberts becomes Rabbit Hole’s second guest contributor.

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May 02, 2015/ Ant Gray/
Writers and writing
"The Abduction" (Poem), Denial, Stanley Kunitz
April 25, 2015

Kraftifacts: If Post-it notes have taught me anything...

April 25, 2015/ Ant Gray
Kraftifacts: If Post-it notes have taught me anything...

For those of you with a fetish for stationery.

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April 25, 2015/ Ant Gray/
Art and creativity, Writers and writing
3M, Art Fry, David Nicholls, Idelle Weber, Lego, Post-it notes, Robert Smith, Spencer Silver, The Cure
April 25, 2015

Covers 3: Superb Assassins

April 25, 2015/ Ant Gray
Covers 3: Superb Assassins

Rabbit Hole’s first guest contributor talks about his favourite covers.

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April 25, 2015/ Ant Gray/
A Radio Show on Paper, Music and musicmaking
"Here Without You" (Song), "Morning Glory" (Song), "Sounds of Silence" (Song), "Taught by Experts" (Song), “Ruby Tuesday" (Song), Cohen Brothers, Fairport Convention, Gene Clark, Iain Matthews, Melanie Safka, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, Paul Kelly, Simon and Garfunkel, The Byrds, The Rolling Stones, Tim Buckley, Uncle Bill
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