The Art of Asking
posted by Neil Gaiman
In a day and a half over half a million people have watched this talk, at the TED website and on YouTube.
I am so proud of her. Really: I've never been happier than when I watched her get a standing ovation, and watching this video go viral is an absolute joy.
It was hard, sometimes, over the last six weeks, while she worked on her speech. Genuinely rough, sometimes: it was like having a third person in the marriage. There was me, Amanda, and there was Amanda's TED speech, and she was spending a lot more time with her TED speech than she was with me.
Initially I was grumpy and jealous and I felt left out, and then, once I heard her give an early version of the speech, I got caught up in the fun of watching her craft it (and watching her figure out how to get it down to 12 minutes), and toward the end I was loving the process of watching her give her speech to college kids and to our friends and just to me and Anthony, and when I got a cold I even banished her from the house for a few days, because I didn't want her speech being derailed by sickness...
Then we went to TED, and it was all worth it. She went on between Sergei Brin and Larry Lessig and she gave her speech. The people who came up and congratulated her over the next few days were people you've heard of, the ones who make the world different.
And when someone came up to me that afternoon and said "You must be Mr Palmer", I said, Yes, I supposed I must be, and I beamed like a madman.
Watch the speech.
It's called The Art of Asking.
When she was working on it, I thought it was about her Kickstarter, and probably applicable to musicians, but hearing people talk to her about it, and watching it go viral, I realised that it's about so much more than that.
...
(I'm in the UK right now for a couple of days. I've just been the Keynote Speaker at the Cambridge WATERSPRITE Student Film Festival. Today I'm going to be in London with the BlackBerry film crew looking at paper stock and such things for the Calendar of Tales. Tomorrow morning is the NEVERWHERE Radio 4/Radio 4 Extra Press Conference and I get to meet BERNARD CRIBBINS. Proper Blog entry SOON.)
Labels: art, Asking, amanda palmer
In a day and a half over half a million people have watched this talk, at the TED website and on YouTube.
I am so proud of her. Really: I've never been happier than when I watched her get a standing ovation, and watching this video go viral is an absolute joy.
It was hard, sometimes, over the last six weeks, while she worked on her speech. Genuinely rough, sometimes: it was like having a third person in the marriage. There was me, Amanda, and there was Amanda's TED speech, and she was spending a lot more time with her TED speech than she was with me.
Initially I was grumpy and jealous and I felt left out, and then, once I heard her give an early version of the speech, I got caught up in the fun of watching her craft it (and watching her figure out how to get it down to 12 minutes), and toward the end I was loving the process of watching her give her speech to college kids and to our friends and just to me and Anthony, and when I got a cold I even banished her from the house for a few days, because I didn't want her speech being derailed by sickness...
Then we went to TED, and it was all worth it. She went on between Sergei Brin and Larry Lessig and she gave her speech. The people who came up and congratulated her over the next few days were people you've heard of, the ones who make the world different.
And when someone came up to me that afternoon and said "You must be Mr Palmer", I said, Yes, I supposed I must be, and I beamed like a madman.
Watch the speech.
It's called The Art of Asking.
When she was working on it, I thought it was about her Kickstarter, and probably applicable to musicians, but hearing people talk to her about it, and watching it go viral, I realised that it's about so much more than that.
...
(I'm in the UK right now for a couple of days. I've just been the Keynote Speaker at the Cambridge WATERSPRITE Student Film Festival. Today I'm going to be in London with the BlackBerry film crew looking at paper stock and such things for the Calendar of Tales. Tomorrow morning is the NEVERWHERE Radio 4/Radio 4 Extra Press Conference and I get to meet BERNARD CRIBBINS. Proper Blog entry SOON.)
Labels: art, Asking, amanda palmer
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Mar 03, 2013 07:39PM
Loved the speech and the beautiful soul that spoke with such love and understanding of the human connection.
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the vid was awesome...more bands need to do that..to not rely on the big record companies who dont allow them to be artists, but musical robots..this way allows more artistical freedom and gives us more choices as well and we can support our fav bands..
That was a beautiful speech. I found Amanda's music not too long ago, and it seems that every new thing I find makes me fall a little bit more in love with her amazing soul!
Amazing, beautiful speech. Loved it SO much! Wow! The best speech I've ever heard!!!
It was a very provocative speech. I've been thinking for some time that unbridled capitalism is a failed model in so many arenas, and Amanda clearly stated this problem in the music industry. I wonder if she isn't promoting an alternative economic model that might be very useful in certain sectors of the economy, but particularly in the arts. Intriguing to say the least. Congratulations to her and kudos to you for supporting here in it.
Spinningly brilliant! Busting through the ice-white walls people build between themselves and rediscovering each other eye to eye, soul to soul...Amanda lives and walks her talk every day and is teaching us how to do it. Many thanks for sharing it all and helping us stay softly strongly human. :)
I love the commitment you and Amanda have toward each other, and the commitment you each have toward your arts. I am inspired by your willingness to let each other explore what you need to explore, dive deep into that which you must, and to be there waiting for one another on the other side. It gives a whole extra layer to what it means to be polyamorous, to love someone, and to be a friend.
Inspirational speech and I plan to apply her ethos to my own work, although I doubt that will include allowing drunk people to paint me while naked. She rocks. :D
This speech really resonated with me and I thought it was beautiful. She is a beautiful person and I wish I could meet more people like her. She makes me want to be a better person and to seek out the same connections that she has spoken about. I love that Amanda has made her music so accessible to everyone through her methods. And it has shown that people support her even more for that, to create this army of awesomeness that support this little community. I would love to see more artists do the same thing but I think it also takes a special type of person to make this work.
