February 2012
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My Pre-Event Pump Up Routine
You’ve been in this situation before. You’re about to go to some sort of networking event. There are going to be some awesome people and opportunities you want to catch. You get nervous. You’re anxious. You almost back out but you don’t. “I can do this, I can do this,” you chant to yourself.
You arrive and for the next two hours, you are a total wallflower....
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“Today, I learned that the antidote of fear is action. Startup Riot went really...”
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Finding Your Creative Sweet Spot →
littlesparrowdesigns:
Calling all entrepreneurs, artists, creative thinkers, fashionistas, designers, and the list goes on! This write-up about finding your creative sweet spot is most helpful. It even encourages you to toss a few back in order to get the creative juices flowing. Anyone who suggests that I drink a little wine in order to be productive is super cool in my book. Enjoy!
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Watchpenciltests:
And here’s a fun clip about Glen Keane’s process for improving the animation on Tangled. He would draw over the shot as a reference for the animators so they could push the animation to be as good as it can be.
It’s amazing how just a few minor details in the frames injects so much more personality into the character …
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Radical Honesty
From Radical Honesty:
[Radical Honesty] was founded by a sixty-six-year-old Virginia-based psychotherapist named Brad Blanton. He says everybody would be happier if we just stopped lying. Tell the truth, all the time. This would be radical enough — a world without fibs — but Blanton goes further. He says we should toss out the filters between our brains and our mouths. If you...
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Perfectionism is not a quest for the best but for...
This is from Julia Cameron’s incredible book, The Artist’s Way. This excerpt on creative perfectionism resonated with me so much that I just had to recreate the passage to disseminate to everyone. Hopefully, it pull you out of your own vicious cycle.
Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right. It has nothing to do with fixing things. It has nothing to do with standards....
January 2012
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Paul Graham in Curiosity and Passion
Drawing by Havana Nguyen
Paul Graham writes to some high-school grads about What You’ll Wish You Would’ve Known and makes a great point about “passion”:
And what’s your real job supposed to be? Unless you’re Mozart, your first task is to figure that out. What are the great things to work on? Where are the imaginative people? And most importantly, what are...
Reblogged from MermaidShells: Audience Perception... →
wannabeanimator:
The Artist, Perception and Animation
Audience preferences & Tintin
These two blog posts discuss why they think 3D is becoming the more prominent animation medium in theaters, from the point of view of the audience, comparing the current 2D/3D animation situation to…
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The Personal MBA Reading List →
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My new creative direction.
I didn’t make 2012 resolutions because there was one thing that bothered me about 2011. 2011 started off with a fantastic bang!— I was going to double or even triple my earnings as a graphic designer and launch my illustration services, full throttle. I was going to infiltrate bigger cities with my artwork and run a ruthless campaign to get my work in an exhibition at last, to get my artwork...
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The Overjustification Effect →
The Misconception: There is nothing better in the world than getting paid to do what you love. The Truth: Getting paid for doing what you already enjoy will sometimes cause your love for the task to wane because you attribute your motivation as coming from the reward, not your internal feelings.
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In 1973, Lepper, Greene and Nisbett met with teachers of a preschool class, the sort...
December 2011
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WatchChase Jarvis interviews Ramit Sethi on Creativity and Business.
Finally, it hits me.
Good God. I am graduating Tuesday. It is exhilarating to think that after winter break, I will have no classes to return to. Squee! :D
November 2011
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The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our...
As a Gen-Y’er who has owed much of her teenaged growth, intellectual expansion, artistic exploration, business development, and social ascendence to the Internet, I should have picked up The Shallows with great skepticism.
But I didn’t.
I came to this book, desperate for answers. A formerly contemplative and prolific reader, my attention span has degraded in recent years to a...
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Reddit Discussion: Redditors who are over 30, what... →
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June 2011
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kevinetc:
HARRY POTTER DUBSTEP
OH MY GOD
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My to-do list for Summer 2011.
“It’s only when you’ve lost everything that you’re free to do anything.”
Tyler Durden, Fight Club
I’m using this summer to do a bit of soul-searching to find what I intend to do after graduation. Summer 2011 is going to be a period of re-creating this new me. I have to be brutally honest with myself and stay loyal to my happiness. Devotion to your instinct...
