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Troika: Newton Virus (self-initiated, 2005), photo © Dominic Holland
Optimize Your Creative Output
One thing you can’t be taught, not
even by books or the Internet, is how
to create or control the “force” behind
all of your work. This “force” makes
you stay up at night tweaking that last
block of text on a poster, making it fit
the mental image you initially had
while drinkin’ juice in the hood. It is all
in your head. Inspiration and creativity
are a blessing (and somet