http://www.good.is/post/heavy-lifting-why-i-chose-manual-labor-over-making-lattes/

""When I first moved to New York, an artist friend forwarded me an email from a man who needed help hauling second-hand art books between dealers’ offices, self-storage units, book shows, and private homes. My colleagues at the second-hand book seller were all artists, raising money to rent studios between art openings in Berlin and starting new sculpture projects. Sometimes they asked to be paid in books instead of cash. At a film production company in the East Village where I worked one time, my fellow furniture movers were an aspiring actor and up-and-coming director who seemed thrilled just to be in the offices of the company that had made Adaptation.""""