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May 21

In probably the most exciting Citizens news yet - Citizens of the World is a finalist in the 2012 Pedestrian.tv Ultrabook Blogster Awards!

Makes all the blood, sweat, and insane Virgin Mobile excess data usage bills worth it. [Virgin Mobile owns my backside for the next 12 months.]

If you’d like to check it out go to:

http://www.pedestrian.tv/ultrabook-pedestrian-blogster-awards/blog?id=674

And thank you in advance if you’d like to give us some Facebook Like love.

May 17

Thanks Fashionologie.com for giving Citizens of The World a shoutout.

May 16

The only thing better than getting a shout out for your blog from a stranger is getting a shout out for your blog from a stranger from another country (if only for the engrish translations from Google Translate)

Citizens of The World (www.hellocitizens.com) got a wrap up from Hola.com (http://streetstyle.hola.com/index.php/2012/05/15/australia-fashion-week/) recently.Warm and fuzzies ensued.

“The gateways do not rest, as Europe does, the antipodes are in full swing. In this case, we refer to the Fashion Week in Sydney. The recipe, the same: bloggers and publishers dressed in their best clothes (very summery) to attend the parades. And again a figure that appears strong, the blogger, which, as we show you our review of Madrid, Paris, Milan and London, also in Australia’s undisputed star and reference style.

In the second row, Candice Lake again, this time with a silk blouse and white pants pliers, cutting width. Emma Lucey, blogger austrialana SpinDizzyFall creative and responsible online communication MinkPink signature vintage red miniskirt with matching socks. Finally, Meghan McTavish publishing house specializing in digital content, dressed in yellow and lime minfalda top athletic style with raglan sleeves. One of his projects in the network is the web Citizens of the World.”

Apr 18

Citizens of The World (www.hellocitizens.com) made it on to Wordpress.com’s Freshly Pressed blogs of the day. Huge win for us. Thank you Wordpress team!

Apr 10

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Apr 08

@trentpower @isabelchild (Taken with Instagram at The Compound)

Apr 06

@domlono & I working on a project together. www.hellocitizens.com Day 1 complete (Taken with Instagram at North Bondi)

Mar 13

http://neworleans.craigslist.org/bik/2896467643.html -

“I am selling my Vista Carrera 7 road bike. Perfect for the aspiring culture creator. I have recently become a Successful Entrepreneur and I no longer have the need for such trifling possessions. I drive a gigantic cargo van that literally pisses gas onto the road to mark its territory.

Just think of all the great places you could see and be seen on this bike:

1. An Obama rally
2. A Ron Paul rally
3. Rally’s
4. Miscellaneous”

Mar 12

imwithkanye:

Website of the day: Obama Loves You Back.

(via americastoppushing)

Tim Parks on The Writer’s Job

Inside every writer is another writer. This is the imagined real writer, who believes themselves as the next Orwell, Ibsen or Kafka - if only they were given a bottomless tin of change and hours to just sit alone. Usually reserved for that common breed that writes for food.

Moving on.

Inside every writer is also the fear that if one were actually given said hours and coin they’d actually have to produce something of actual greatness.

Tim Parks’ article ‘The Writer’s Job’ puts forward the idea that being considered GREATin our time might not be all that great after all (here’s looking at you Tao Lin).

So the pressure’s off!

I kid. I kid. But seriously.

“As we know, T.S. Eliot rather complicated matters by telling us that the writer had to overcome his personality and find his place in a literary tradition; his work would only be truly distinctive when it marked the next development in the natural unfolding of the collective imagination

Only those who had real personality, special people like himself, would appreciate what a burden personality was and wish to shed it. Literature became the drama of this special person’s sublimation or sacrifice of self through exploration of the work of other equally special people who came before him, to whose achievements he then added his own individual contribution. There was something painful and noble about this endeavor that raised the writer to a pantheon worshiped by an elite.

It became clear that the task of the writer was not just to deliver a book, but to promote himself in every possible way. He launches a website, a Facebook page (I’m no exception), perhaps hires his own publicist. He attends literary festivals all over the world, for no payment.

The emergence of the agent signals an awareness that there is a clash between the idea of writing as a romantic, anti-establishment vocation and the need for the professional writer to mesh with a well-established industrial and promotional machine.

One of the problems of seeing creative writing as a career is that careers are things you go on with till retirement. The fact that creativity may not be co-extensive with one’s whole working life is not admitted. A disproportionate number of poets teach in these courses.

…books travel further and translate faster than they ever did in the past. A natural selection process favors those writers whose style and content cross borders easily. Success and celebrity breed imitators. Lots of them. Nobody can read everything. Nobody can read the hundredth part of everything.

Whatever in the future masquerades as a canon for our own time will largely be the result of good marketing, self-promotion, and of course pure chance.”