009: When is your work “good”?
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Welcome to the Idle Hands Society Podcast - where we hope to discuss and learn more about the effective creative process. In this episode, Dan and Paul discuss how they tell when they’re doing good work. Along the way we find out; Paul’s phone has been ringing off the hook with job offers, Dan and Paul will be reunited again after a year apart, Dan’s been thinking about doing a degree and his concern about formal education, Our personal processes for finding our ‘keepers’, Dan’s shameful gig with Wheatus in a former public toilet, Paul’s journey towards adding context to his portraits "All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. For while in all other kinds of art it is possible to distinguish the matter from the form, and the understanding can always make this distinction, yet it is the constant effort of art to obliterate it." - Walter Pater
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