People spend too much time on the last 24 hours and not enough time on the last 6,000 years.
— Will Durant
via the #FarnamStreet newsletter, https://fs.blog/brain-food/may-19-2024/
Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112467327590321757
#FarnamStreet, #life, #history, #lifelessons
Public performance eats art.
True.
Fame doesn’t rub off.
Also True.
Fame doesn’t always pay the bills.
Too True.
This industry doesn’t owe you a living, and it doesn’t pay you to dwell on the past.
Very True.
Most of the people in this industry are garage bands wondering why they’re not the Rolling Stones.
So Very Very True.
Don’t get into comics to get rich. Don’t get into comics for fame. Don’t get into comics for any reason except to make comics.
Fame and money are never a guarantee in the arts, no matter who you are or what you create.
Making your comic is about the truth of your love for the art.
Not about fame. Not about money.
If the audience comes, then yay.
If the audience doesn’t come, you made a comic.
And that’s the hard truth that makes you stronger.
— Colleen Doran, These Things Are True
https://colleendoran.substack.com/p/these-things-are-true
#Art #Career #Life #ColleenDoran
Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112375317207965215
#art, #career, #life, #colleendoran
Make Bad Things
https://janusworx.com/blog/make-bad-things/
Original: https://amandaswork.tumblr.com/post/731449232798760961/sadbuddies-pssssst-stickers-available-now
Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112273617721766940
Suits think EVERYONE is a spark plug. They don’t have a clue why this guy they paid to draw Batman didn’t wake up one day and become Frank Miller. They can’t tell the difference between Frank Miller and another creator.
They think it’s luck. A trick.
There is craft and then there is creation.
And the suits don’t know what that is.
Suits, of course, love AI art.
Processed cheese pictures made up of the real pictures made by real human beings, easily replaced on the cheap.
Like spark plugs.
https://colleendoran.substack.com/p/artists-sell-themselves-so-cheap
Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112074656810190095
Ursula Vernon on Unrealistic Expectations and Eating Bread
https://janusworx.com/blog/ursula-vernon-on-unrealistic-expectations/
#UrsulaVernon #Art #Life #100WordHabit #mjbWrites
Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112043147093848451
#UrsulaVernon, #art, #life, #100WordHabit, #mjbwrites
Cal Newport’s Minimalist Note Taking System
https://janusworx.com/blog/note-to-self-cal-newports-minimal-notes-system/
#100WordHabit #mjbWrites #Reading #Books #Syntopica #Productivity #CalNewport #Life #NoteTaking #BookNotes
Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112026068067140361
#100WordHabit, #mjbwrites, #reading, #books, #syntopica, #productivity, #calnewport, #life, #notetaking, #booknotes
The world has told you lies about how small you are.
— Heather Havrilesky
#Quote #mjbQuote #Life #Strength #Resilience
Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111412455353213238
#quote, #mjbquote, #life, #strength, #resilience
I have no words to offer which may comfort the reader who is also a castaway, except that rescue may come at any time but not necessarily when you expect it;
and that even if you give up hope, you must never give up trying, for, as the result of your efforts, hope may well return and with justification
— Dougal Robertson, Sea Survival
via @mariapopova
https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/02/28/sea-survival-dougal-robertson/
#Life #Hope #Desperation #mjbDoTheWork #Resilience #AntiFragile
Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111378013882569363
#life, #hope, #desperation, #mjbdothework, #resilience, #antifragile
Theoretical research in the sciences is the unfallen version of Fuck Around and Find Out. 😀
— Diane Duane
https://dduane.tumblr.com/post/733143720787132416/theoretical-research-in-the-sciences-is-the
#Science #Art #Life #Tinkering #Exploring #MakeMistakes
Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111362249469987959
#science, #art, #life, #tinkering, #exploring, #MakeMistakes
Because I wrote a book called *Steal Like an Artist*, some people think I’m really interested in plagiarism. Actually, I’m much more interested in *forgery*.
“Plagiarism is the flip side of forgery,” wrote Andrew Potter in *The Authenticity Hoax*. “Forgers pass off their own work as that of someone else, while plagiarists pass off the work of others as their own.”
In other words: Plagiarism is taking credit for someone else’s work. Forgery is giving someone else credit for work you create.
The difference is you *doing the work*.
— Austin Kleon
https://austinkleon.com/2023/11/01/3-recent-newsletters/
#Art #Life #mjbDoTheWork #StealLikeAnArtist #AustinKleon
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#art, #life, #mjbdothework, #StealLikeAnArtist, #AustinKleon