Bullsh*t or Fertilizer (Paperback)

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Product Description

Ever get tired of having the same conversation over and over again, just talking or thinking about what needs to be done instead of getting motivated to act? This book is for anyone who needs a heaping dose of momentum and focus, and who better to dish out such advice than Pierre Bennu, an award-winning filmmaker and artist who's had such conversations countless times? This page-turner is the perfect companion for those times you need a little motivation, whether you're on a bus ride or a train trip, or standing in line for four hours to audition for the second feline from the right in CATS. It tells you how to get started and shows you how to make and attain goals-and it contains some of the best advice ever on making contacts and selling yourself or your creation. Teachers, singers, writers, astrologers, actors, painters, and anyone longing to create will benefit from the conversational advice in this little book. The author and title make no bones: You can either use the book to help you grow, or . . . you get the picture.

About the Author

In addition to being an author, Pierre Bennu is a painter, teacher, deejay, and award-winning filmmaker. He produces two to three films a year, which he shows in various festivals across the country. He and his wife, Jamyla Bennu, form "exittheapple" (see exittheapple.com), a creativity collective focusing on film and digital media, creativity workshops, and keeping the "fun" in "profundity." They live and work in New York.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing (March 2, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0740733168
• ISBN-13: 978-0740733161
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,017,201 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Stuff!, April 20, 2003

By	mario moorhead (Brooklyn, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This book is not only a great quick read but it's a very much needed kick in the pants for all of us repressed artist. Bennu pulls no punches and lays it down. It's not what you say but what you do, what you produce, what you create.

Bennu is also a film maker and one of his shorts can viewed in the film section of artprotein.com an underground artist community online.

Everyone should read this book! I would very much recommend it.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Clever, concise, pure. Truth., April 18, 2003

By	J. Gordon - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Bennu gets it. And this book, as he warns in the beginning, is lean and mean -- if you're used to filling up your reading time with fluff, then get a magazine as a companion, because the author gets right to the point. And this is really the message of the book, get to the point in your life.

The writing style, the format, and the form are all perfect metaphors for the message, and once you've had a read, you'll get it too. The best thing about it, is that not only does it ring truth, but it's easy to see that Bennu wants to share honesty with you, and if you're open to be honest with yourself, then this book will reach you instantly, and you'll find yourself getting right to the point of your own life.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun, funny and actually works in a pinch, July 11, 2003

By	Scott Woods (Columbus, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Tired of reading through all the Zen-like musings of writing books to get to the meat of the message? Just need a quick pick-me-up to get you back on the artistic horse or to break your Writers' Block? This book will likely do it for you in a pinch.
Stripping away the science and mirrors of most self-help writing books, this one unapologetically just gives you what you need to hear right after a rejection or right before you blow off another hour you could have spent creating something by playing video games.

Solid, if a little too loose in some passages to be taken wholly seriously. A greta motivator in any artist's case.