Thursday

MY CONVERSATION WITH HEIKO JULIEN

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  • Greg Solano
    Greg Solano
    heiko were you ever stifled and unproductive or were you always this fountain of energy
  • Heiko Julien
    Heiko Julien
    !!!!
    i didn't know what my mission was for a long time
  • Greg Solano
    Greg Solano
    word
    well keep on wit the unbridled poetic id on the internet.
  • Heiko Julien
    Heiko Julien
    gotta find your path, you know?
    are you a creative person?
  • Greg Solano
    Greg Solano
    yeah, poet
    but struggling with productivity lately.
  • Heiko Julien
    Heiko Julien
    ahh yang
    how's your imagination doing
  • Greg Solano
    Greg Solano
    terrible
  • Heiko Julien
    Heiko Julien
    that's often the issue
  • Greg Solano
    Greg Solano
    i have insane dreams though.
  • Heiko Julien
    Heiko Julien
    so like when i run into a block
    its often because ive convinced myself things are only a certain way
    and that within this paradigm, i am powerless
    so i become bitter and complain
    if im able to step outside of my ego and imagine that things could be different, i realize that they often are
    things are lots of ways
    thats how the world works, imo. not to lecture you about the world lol
    but if you can conceive of it being different, you can adjust
    and do something else for intrinsic reasons as opposed to extrinsicly motivated ones
    i do stuff all the time because its what i want to do
    im making it up as i go because it makes me happy
    only i can do it because its my path
    you can do that too
    it just takes a certain attitude
    you should read this book "flow"
  • Greg Solano
    Greg Solano
    makes sense. inertia is a bitch though
    i've read some of flow. was surprised you were quoting from it a bit back
    and I actually picked up the war of art because you said something about it.
    when one is an unproductive poet hanging on fb one gets to know heiko v well
  • Heiko Julien
    Heiko Julien
    this is all good shit
    haha
    heiko is a silly boy
    haters love him
  • Heiko Julien
    Heiko Julien
    you gotta give yourself permission to set your creativity free and give up on the idea that there are right and wrong ideas, good and bad. thats for the real world, not for art
  • Greg Solano
    Greg Solano
    that's where I've been living
  • Heiko Julien
    Heiko Julien
    art is where you can learn to discover again
    lemme check it
  • Greg Solano
    Greg Solano
    not yet chilling in the forest bleeding with my horse trying to get to the castle
    just on the bridge with my girl in a city that was supposed to beautiful, anguished and complacent.
  • Heiko Julien
    Heiko Julien
    nice
    imageryyyy
    jokes
  • Heiko Julien
    Heiko Julien
    this is how i understand it
    people can feel how you feel when you make something
    and although we arent very articulate or smart about a lot of things, we are insanely intuitive sometimes
    if you're having fun figuring something out, explaining things to yourself, finding your way through things, they will feel it
    just put it out there and be ready to focus on positive feedback and ignore destructive idiots
    but its the process is what im saying
    process process process
    thats the shit
  • Greg Solano
    Greg Solano
    yeah
    one foot in front of the other.
    so hard not to be thinking about the end prematurely.
    watching the movie still thinking about the credits.
    being twenty walking around thinking about how one day you'll die
    etc.
    thanks heiko