it's a long, long dead end road

[FromUnderTheRock]

as an artist, the most money I ever made painting was my neighbor's house; I painted other things, too, but I lost money on those. I was a writer for a while, but, like art, that's pretty much networking and the male genitalia sucking thing...waiting tables is where I shine, although I do tend to spill more coffee than I should.

[KateReadsBooks]

@FromUnderTheRock NEVER GIVE UP

[celloguy]

Amazing. This is a good video. And I LOVE the clip you posted at the end.Hhow do people do art speak? Did Van Gogh do art speak? Keep on fuckin' truckin'.

[scrabblechampion72]

i'm starting art school in a week and this is really encouraging HAHAHAHAH

[grapemind]

The other day my friend said he met this youtuber at work. He was telling me this over a voice mail. But he stops and goes "It's not katereadsbooks or k80blog so don't get too excited". I laughed out loud when he said that but it's so true, I love your videos! And in a totally non-creepy way, I love you! ...and art is just missing an f, and therefore humor. add it back! (humor, that is)

[itsBA44]

"If you don't dance, you're not cool and that's just reality."

[ErinJuneDonnelly]

I'm changing my major right now.

[shesaidbalderdash]

Ugh you just summed up my whole life. LOVE!!!

[MireilleeL]

"If you're an artist, you're supposed to be cool. If you don't dance, you're not cool. That's just reality." You're awesome.

[breathead]

Maybe you will read Tim Ferriss's book, The Four Hour Work Week, start a business, automate your income stream enough to support a life where you spend 90% of your time creating art and almost no time networking, and live happily ever after.

[Paperlilies]

That's what puts me off the whole art world- the schmoozing you have to do. I have a few friends who studied fine art at university and are now part of this world in one way or another and it just seems like a huge circle jerk. Which I don't want to have to deal with. I hate talking to my friends let alone people who I think are giant douchebags.

[wheredacheesego]

all I can say to this is: I FEEEEL YOUUUUU (johaaannaaa)

and one day I'll steal you (cause I miss you and stuff but I don't like getting dressed, everyday public clothes should be more like pajamas)

[srrhoades]

Kate, you are that best! And you always will be! Go finish your Wally book and the world is yours.........................­..love you always, mom

[bubblescribble]

i love you 

[RenRen3401]

I HATE that work JUXTAGSJHFHFKHPOSITION with a passion lol. yes i do ART/DESIGN/BULLSHIT

[sheetsl]

I ditched art and went into science! Do that!

Except I wrote "juxtaposed" 13 times in my last paper.

damn. nevermind.

[bucketofstars]

Dancing is cool. People who dance are cool. Dancing people are my favorite.

[hunnnterrr]

as an artist, everything you say i love and relate to completely. brilliant. juxtaposition is completely inescapable i think. JESUS CHRIST I HATE NETWORKING. i find art so ridiculous a lot of the time - i listen to myself talk in critique and i'm sort of proud of my vocabulary and sort of like what is this bullshit i am saying. and then it seeps over into your regular life and nobody knows what i'm trying to say ever because i'm just too damn conceptual. where can i see your art?

[KateReadsBooks]

@hunnnterrr katerhoades . com

[tactlessgrace]

touche on that ending guy questioning why to do this at all. I don't know man, I feel you, though I'm in a different field of artistic expression. You go through the bullshit and learn how to balance it with the stuff you love...and be open to how your artistic side can and will change. Otherwise, your option is to become a recluse and make art in solitude, which might ring true for you...but then how would it reach the people you want to effect. You're not alone in feeling this way though!

[seymoursimon]

I am dying. Was that guy at the end real. I need to know, Kate. I am dying.

[meurtri]

networking is always the most important thing, sux balz

[JoshRimer]

Rejection sucks. :-( Keep goin though - it just takes one acception!

P.S. Grapes & cheese isn't that bad.

[PegCityTanya]

Kate, while I'm not familiar with your art, I'm familiar with your videos, and I want you to know that they affect me in the same way that you describe that you hope your art will affect people: they kill me with their brilliance and creativity and ... you just do such a great job at uniquely expressing the meaning/humor/art in everyday life.

So, the way I see it, you're already doing your job as an artist and you're doing it incredibly well. I hope I get to see one of your shows someday.

[ohjoannabanana]

I was so waiting for that guy to say "juxtaposition." Oh well..

I always enjoy your fun silly videos, but I really liked seeing the introspective side of you in this video. I hope you will be happy in your new home and that it will inspire you to make lots of wonderful art just for you. And hopefully you will show us some of your artwork in a YouTube video every now and then.

[tiffbott41]

I AM IN THE EXACT POSITION YOU ARE IN! i ended up moving home because i couldn't afford to live n the city! now i am in an unemployed hole! trying so hard to make and not get down! AH! all the best kate! x

[AntiCliche]

This is your quarter life crisis. Everything that was planned is done. Now there is only the expanse of your life to live.

[TheeOneWhoTalks]

If I owned an art place where they had shows, I would make it so only your art was chosen forever until the end of the days of the years of the months of foreverness. Also, you should be a writer of books and shit! That's a wondorous art area.

[DuckInAParticle]

Perhaps you will find more reactions to your art in Portland? I think so. Was that guy at the end talking to himself? I know there were people watching him, but he looked like he was having a conversation with himself. He should have put a phone to his ear so people wouldn't stop and stare at him.

[Morlaboborla]

Uhg goodness, I have a job where no one comes in all day and it's just me planning in my head my move to Austin. I've just become this brain dead zombie in order to pass time.

Kate, you're my favorite.

[cymbalman89]

kate, you're awesome! try not tor understimate yourself. your art work is amazing. do whatever makes you happy and you will be fine. at least you have someone that loves you. i know one thing-i love your videos. i watch a lot of your videos on repeat sometimes because they are so friggin' funny! they're theraputic to me. i would like to see what goes on with you whether it be with funny adventures, stories, sandwiches, wally, drawing, or just talking about life. make videos forever and ever! =)

[Capgungoesbang]

Your video made me think of the movie "Pecker". The big dogs suck, stay true to the little things that make you happy with your art and life. It's always about the little things. Galleries are LAMEEE.

[geneee22]

I subscribed to you like a million years ago and have watched every single one of your videos. I've never commented on one, and I'm commenting now.

Just wanted to say I love you.

[omnidoug]

The way I see it, if you compare the urge to create with the bullshit industry built up around it and you DON'T have a little crisis of faith, then you're doing something wrong. It'd be worse to be excited to go eat grapes and say "paradigm." Every job/career/avocation has its crappy bits and, to me, a li'l misery now and then is good news -- it means you're a decent person who is able to correctly identify them as crappy bits.

[K80Blog]

I love you. Fuck em'.

[K80Blog]

It's ok. I'm a filmmaker and I HATE filmmakers most.

[javgirl]

i'd like to see you get financing and do your own show. but a show where you' have poured your blood and dna into hours of work. (but no cutting off of any appendages)

[madeye0]

But don't worry, postmodern art will soon kill itself with the sheer absurdity and cocksuckerism. Because that's really all it is, artists sucking each others cocks, while they should be sucking worlds nipples.

[javgirl]

i lost mo and jo for making videos for awhile. i think it's good we are actually living.

sweet, a new link of you

[madeye0]

I'm sorry to say this, but you made my day.

[tkraven]

i completely relate to your frustration. it's the reason i quit showing my art to anyone. art receptions are my hell.

i hope your move refreshes you and that you find an art community that is authentic and encouraging of your work.

[PalpitatioCordis]

...I feel like saying something, but I'm not so sure what - I'm not an artist, so I don't have qualified advice ;) I guess it is about finding the thing that fulfils you, and increasing that, and minimizing the shit that comes along with living in our world... kaboom, something super deep right there *haha*

[weirdali]

if you want to make money you have to unfortunately sell yourself as well as your art... it sux. or you can move to the country and open a gallery and shag up with some rich gal...

[wolfgirleatsbaby]

i like when you put the phone down

[BaubleRob]

Me too. But science. And not juxtaposition, but every time I write a paper I have to find a new way to write the same introductory paragraph. And then I feel bad because writing that paragraph isn't as hard as mining coal in a Yorkshire pit for 50 years. I think it's worst right after graduation too.

[KateReadsBooks]

@BaubleRob Academia is the culprit, I think.

[argylegoatshit]

I miss Kate's vlogs. She's co cute and funny :)

[sweetpepperoni017]

Kate you seem so different. I don't know how to explain.

To me you have been like a funny lady who goes to an Art School in America.

But, now you put on the suit, and have your job.

It seems you are just a ordinary woman who I thought you are far most from.

It makes me feel weird. But, I know you are still Kate.

Times will always change.

I still like your videos.

[KateReadsBooks]

@sweetpepperoni017 this comment broke my heart. I don't wear a suit to my job. This video is just from where I volunteer. And I'm only wear a jacket, not a suit.

[angeliciam]

@KateReadsBooks I love your jacket <3

[sweetpepperoni017]

@KateReadsBooks Sorry. I didn't know that. But, that's my feeling first came up with when I saw you in this video. After I watched your video, I just felt that though we tried to be different and original, when we grew up and work for something, not for music nor art, we will land on the same result, ordinary men and women. and that made me feel I'm missing something. or reminded me of how I used to be when I was younger.

[TheSashaSays]

@sweetpepperoni017 you be straight trippin.. Kate, you're far from an ordinary woman and you know it. so much love in this club.

[pete275]

I think we're ready to move on to post-post-modern discussion.

I work with a bunch of artists (we make videogames), they're not annoying like that guy. They're annoying in their own way tho. I'd totally fire that guy

[pete275]

are you moving to Austin?

[LemonsandSugar]

Nacho face is pretentious.

[mayandarko]

i LOVE dancing! if there's a floor and an appropriate song i am unstopable!

i have an internship as a docent at an art museum, but i don't sound as well-informed as that guy when i give tours. maybe it's his accent.

and i'm getting an art degree that i plan to use as indirectly as possible. =)

[troggie06]

I love you!

[schatze78]

That guy in the black shirt is exactly why I don't like going to galleries. Also, he said absolutely nothing original or profound, it was a high school student's answer to a question he doesn't know, so he rephrases a statement multiple times, but this guy has the accent to make it sound better.

[BaubleRob]

@schatze78 Don't tell anyone. It's not his real accent. He's pushing it about 100 miles further south than it should be.

[heythere182]

Thanks for the update, i missed your vids :) and also it is true, if you don't dance, you're not cool. Period. End of story.

[schatze78]

I believe I have seen The Manager and others. I liked it :-)

[williamcanfly]

is your boss' partner's name spelled "tara" or "tera"?

wait that's a dumb question, i'm still posting this though.