Two, Three, GO!

Tyler The Creator’s 2019 IGOR album track number ten “GONE, GONE / THANK YOU”, has been on repeat all morning and FUDGING I LOVE IT!

Written by Cullen Omori, Alan O’Day, 山下達郎 (Tatsuro Yamashita) & Tyler, The Creator.

Featuring background vocals by: La Roux, CeeLo Green, Tiffany Stevenson, Amanda Brown, Anthony Evans & Jessy Wilson (WHAT NO CHARLIE WILSON?)

This is definitely not the first time I have heard this song, but for some reason today it resonates with me on a higher level than ever before. I have been a long time fan of Tyler ever since the days of the “ walking paradox” and it brings no surprise that this album is a freaking slam like his previous works.

What I like most about this song is that it can sort-of double for a “closer” type theme song, if this was a movie, and as well for an “opening/new beginnings” type theme song for the same movie. I especially like the hook, and the whoever they have singing it. Really dope.

By the one and only CeeLo Green (I think he only wrote it, can't tell who performs it.)

“Whether it's rain or shine, I know I'm fine for now

My love's gone, my love's gone

My love's gone, oh, gone (two, three, go)

Or maybe it's just a dream that I can't seem to wake up from

My love's gone, my love's gone

My love's gone, gone”

In the song Tyler speaks about a past relationship he was in, what caused it to end, and the perspective gained there after. I find this to be definitely a good song to add to the end-of summer playlist.

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Information sourced from:

https://genius.com/Tyler-the-creator-gone-gone-thank-you-lyrics

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“Like all creative people, we only seek to create, and in doing so, somehow change the world.”

“Our thinking is our highest value product; we will not part with it without appropriate compensation. If we demonstrate that we do not value our thinking, our clients and prospects will not. Our paying clients can rest assured that our best minds remain focused on solving their problems and not the problems of those who have yet to hire us.” - Blair Enns

The above quotes are from the book titled “The Win Without Pitching Manifesto” by Blair Enns. It is a publication for us creatives seeking to sustain our creativity in an ever so challenging world that demands we give it away for free.

Although aimed towards graphic designers, I believed that there was valuable information to gain that could be applied by even photographers. So, in early August 2021, I picked up this book with the simple goal of educating myself on common business practices. As I explored its pages, I began to realize that the very term “common business practice” (CBP) was somewhat of an oddity in the creative world, my world. That not only I, but my fellow colleagues and artists as well were often forced, by choice due to lack of knowledge, into positions where our expertise and creative thinking went unappreciated. That more often than not we found ourselves with our hands stretched-out offering our talents and expertise to those who have not yet seen the true value of them, our clients. That it is not only “CBP” to select clients who see value in our expertise, but is also our responsibility to ensure that they do.

In this book “The Without Pitching Manifesto”, you will find twelve proclamations, twelve doctrines if you will, on how and why we should no longer accept the commonality of doing business undervalued. That we will follow its teachings in chapter one “We Will Specialize”, chapter two “We will Replace Presentations With Conversations”, chapter three “We Will Diagnose Before We Prescribe”, chapter four “We Will Rethink What It Means To Sell”, chapter five “We will Do With Word What We Used To Do With Paper”, chapter six “We Will Be Selective”, chapter seven “We Will Build Expertise Rapidly”, chapter eight “We Will Not Solve Problems Before We Are Paid”, chapter nine “We Will Address Issues of Money Early, chapter ten “We Will Refuse To Work At A Loss”, chapter eleven “We Will Charge More”, and finally chapter twelve “We Will Hold Our Heads High”

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A self portrait.

No not the fashion trend, I'm referring to portraiture. To take a picture of one's self depicting your personality, your emotions, and maybe your spiritual energy (aura).

Still waters run deep.

I have always been know as the "quite type" from an early age growing up as the middle child of a small house hold of four, comprised of my younger sister, older brother, and mother. Being that I was born as the middle child and that of from a working class family, raised by a single parent, there simple weren't many outlets for me to learn many social skills. And anyone who is lucky enough to be born a middle child knows that you are often left to your own devices. We kind of get left in the cracks, so to speak. As a child growing-up on the outskirts of Clinton, Mississippi, I would often spend my time exploring the vast wooded terrain behind our home that at times would seem to stretch-out forever. Or in front of a television. To me these where vehicles that I could use to escape the isolation that I often would myself in. Each vehicle possessing endless wonders. There is so much you can learn from nature and the world, be it in person or remotely from the comfort of your own bed.

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