TheStreet.com’s home page this morning, with nay a mention of the Jim Cramer v Jon Stewart showdown of the previous night.
He loves creation as long as he is creating it, but his love turns away from the finished portions. For the artist must also love what is most hateful in order to shape it, but what he has already shaped, even if it is good, cools him off; it becomes so bereft of love that he hardly still understands himself in it, and the moment when his love returns to delight in what it has done are rare and unpredictable.
Me @IgniteOrlando last night building @TheStrawBridge, which came in third place.
the ideas that eventually become the shows we work months and months on sort of do that, one way or another. at a certain point, they shove their way to the front of the line and wave. for me, that usually happens as a result of a kind of juxtaposition. on the one hand, you find a scientist or some other smarty who is exploring the world in an empirical left-brained sort of way…on the other hand, you find some dude who is just living their life, getting their coat on, walking out the door and yet somehow bumping into the very same thing that that scientist is studying. if you take the two kinds of stories, bump ‘em up against each other and they start to vibrate, then we know we’ve got a show we can build on.
