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Hugh MacLeod – Create Collaborate

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You have your individual creative moments, and you have your creative collaboration moments.

They feed on each other. Even cartooning, as in my case, it’s a fairly lonely craft, however it too relies on the feedback loop I get from the people who help me run gapingvoid- Jason and Laura, namely.

It’s something that gets clearer to me as I get older- that all good things feed on other good things, and feed them back.

It’s the wheel of life, it’s the wheel of being. This reality will never change… and Thank Goodness for that

Seth Godin – You are Welcome

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Subscribe to the good words of Seth Godin

“What would you have me do instead?”

To the critic who decries a project as a worthless folly, something that didn’t work out, something that challenged the status quo and failed, the artist might ask,

“Is it better to do nothing?”

To the critic who hasn’t shipped, who hasn’t created his art, anything less than better-than-what-I -have-now appears to be a waste. To this critic, progress should only occur in leaps, in which a fully functioning, perfected new device/book/project/process/system appears and instantly and perfectly replaces the current model.

We don’t need your sharp wit or enmity, please. Our culture needs your support instead.

Each step by any (and every) one who ships moves us. It might show us what won’t work, it might advance the state of the art or it might merely encourage others to give it a try as well.

To those who feel that they have no choice but to create, thank you.

I Create…

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A lot of people don’t understand what I do. So I will let Hugh MacLeod explain…

“The fact is, to lead a successful. “creative” life, you pretty much have to work at it every day, the same way a pianist practices his scales, or a football player practices his drills. Every frickin’ day.

Of course, not everybody will understand why you bother…

And not every day will be a winner, either. Sometimes you’ll do a twelve or fourteen hour stretch, and come away with hardly anything of value. Lots of work, little gain.

Which is why I made this cartoon look so imcomplete and fragmented. It feels like that more often than any artist would ever care to admit.

Sure, you get used to it. But it never stops hurting, just a little…”