He created Patreon, a new funding platform for artists like himself who make creative work on a regular basis.

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But you're absolutely right that companies like yours, companies like Safeway, have done some very important, creative work on your own.

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It's also, like all of his work, a paean to creative freedom.

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To make their case, the generals and admirals needed to do some creative salesmanship while avoiding some basic questions, like Will they work?

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When you work with people in any creative endeavor, they never like you to do anything else.

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It started life without a soul, the collective effort of once-creative artists like Taymor and Bono now resigned to parodying their own best work.

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"It feels like a very transient job market, where you have to be inventive and creative and you have to be prepared to work for nothing if you want to get anywhere, " she says.

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