{"id":23718,"date":"2015-10-16T21:16:49","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T04:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=23718"},"modified":"2015-10-17T09:01:11","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T16:01:11","slug":"make-piles-of-crap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/16\/make-piles-of-crap\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;make piles of crap&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/katebb1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23719\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/katebb1.jpg\" alt=\"katebb1\" width=\"584\" height=\"898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/katebb1.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/katebb1-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/3868812\/height\/26\/width\/584\/theme\/standard-mini\/direction\/no\/autoplay\/no\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/no\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/\" width=\"584\" height=\"26\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Obsessive consumption, rule-based projects, impostor syndrome, telling our inner a**hole where to go, and \u201cmaking piles of crap\u201d because that&#8217;s the only way you get better. <\/span>Oh. This woman. So smart, so funny, so talented. I&#8217;m talking to Portland based illustrator\/educator\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/katebingamanburt.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kate Bingaman-Burt<\/a>\u00a0&#8230; she always has a ton of\u00a0cool things on the go, so I am slightly stunned that I was able to get her for the podcast. She tucked herself away in a quiet corner of her office at school, and we talked and talked and talked <em>{we went a little longer than normal!}<\/em>. Maybe it&#8217;s because she&#8217;s a teacher, but wow, she had so much great advice to share. Listen right up there under the swirly IKEA cone, or <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/jealous-curator-art-for-your\/id996338562\" target=\"_blank\">subscribe on iTunes<\/a>. As you\u2019re listening, take a\u00a0look at the things\u00a0we talked about in the order that we talked about them. First up,\u00a0one of Kate&#8217;s credit card statements&#8230; hand-drawn as self-imposed punishment:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/katebb2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23720\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/katebb2.jpg\" alt=\"katebb2\" width=\"584\" height=\"729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/katebb2.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/katebb2-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yep, she drew <em>{and shared}<\/em> all of her credit card statements until her debt was paid off. This is where her rule-based projects really took off. They of course led to her daily drawings&#8230; she drew everything she bought, every day, for YEARS. There are <a href=\"http:\/\/katebingamanburt.com\/daily-purchase-drawings\" target=\"_blank\">zillions of them<\/a>, but here are just a few of my favorites:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/katebb31.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23729\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/katebb31.jpg\" alt=\"katebb3\" width=\"584\" height=\"3417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/katebb31.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/katebb31-175x1024.jpg 175w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Gah!<\/em> So good&#8230; and what I might love even more is her hilarious commentary on each purchase! Clearly when obsessive behavior is involved, you have to organize your zillions of\u00a0drawings somehow. Enter Kate&#8217;s monthly <a href=\"http:\/\/katebingamanburt.com\/mixtapes-passwords-shoplifting-zines\" target=\"_blank\">zine<\/a>, <em>&#8220;Obsessive Consumption&#8221;<\/em> where she catalogued all of these hand-drawn purchases&#8230; which then became a big, beautiful book by the same title:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/katebb4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23722\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/katebb4.jpg\" alt=\"katebb4\" width=\"584\" height=\"1689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/katebb4.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/katebb4-104x300.jpg 104w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/katebb4-354x1024.jpg 354w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So. Good. Speaking of good, have you seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iwFbMFqfsKM\" target=\"_blank\">Handmade Nation<\/a>? It&#8217;s a fantastic film by <a href=\"http:\/\/faythelevine.blogspot.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Faythe Levine<\/a>. I love it so much, but until this podcast I had no idea that Kate did all of the illustrations for it! Who knew?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/katebb5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23723\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/katebb5.jpg\" alt=\"katebb5\" width=\"584\" height=\"788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/katebb5.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/katebb5-222x300.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>ps.<\/em> If you haven&#8217;t seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyolympia.com\/q\/Item=handmade-nation-dvd\" target=\"_blank\">this movie, you totally should<\/a>.\u00a0<em>{Note to self: Invite Faythe Levine to be on the podcast}<\/em>.\u00a0And finally, in the speed round, I asked Kate about her favorite place to shop. I thought she might say IKEA or thrift shops, but nope&#8230; office supply stores! Apparently when Kate&#8217;s feeling creatively blocked, she wanders the label aisle to get unstuck <em>{pun <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">absolutely<\/span> intended}. <\/em>Here are a few of her purchases from the shelves that get her creative fires burning:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/katebb6.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23724\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/katebb6.jpg\" alt=\"katebb6\" width=\"584\" height=\"1614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/katebb6.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/katebb6-109x300.jpg 109w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/katebb6-371x1024.jpg 371w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Post-its. Kate\u00a0loves post-its,\u00a0as I&#8217;m sure you can see from the number of pads she buys at one time. Ok, I&#8217;m off to set up some rule-based projects for myself so that I can make piles of crap, and you should too &#8230; because that&#8217;s how you get to the good stuff! Thanks so much to Kate\u00a0for taking the time to do this with me, thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saatchiart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Saatchi Art<\/a> for supporting this episode, and thanks to YOU for listening. There will be more art for your ear next weekend.<\/p>\n<p><em>ps. I hate to ask, but if you like my podcast, could you rate it on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/jealous-curator-art-for-your\/id996338562\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a>? It helps spread the word! xo<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obsessive consumption, rule-based projects, impostor syndrome, telling our inner a**hole where to go, and \u201cmaking piles of crap\u201d because that&#8217;s the only way you get better. Oh. This woman. So smart, so funny, so talented. I&#8217;m talking to Portland based illustrator\/educator\u00a0Kate Bingaman-Burt\u00a0&#8230; she always has a ton of\u00a0cool things on the go, so I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[766,269,112,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23718"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23743,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23718\/revisions\/23743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}