The second image, the one with the crows. It reminds of Kiki and I’m not sure if happy is the word, but I reaaally like it.
A version for tumblr that can be read without opening a new tab, since plenty of people would scroll past this story otherwise.
The bravest woman on Earth.
Incredible.
The Nature of Ambition - Grant Snider
here’s some context. this is the episode of Arthur in which Neil Gaiman appears in falafel. you’re welcome.
For the curious.
This is the most awesome thing I’ve seen all day! I feel like writing again! Thank you mr Gaiman ^-^
In one of my first art classes back during my time at DigiPen, one of the required books we had to read through had this certain painting. Now, it was nothing special, it was just some boats on water. Rather rough. Turns out, it was created by a man named Alfred Wallis. Wallis was a retired fisherman who took up painting at the age of 70 “for company” after his wife died. He used leftover ship paint with crayons on pieces of cardboard boxes for his work.
This man died in 1942, across the ocean from me. Out of some quirk, I see a piece of his in a book, making enough of an impression on me to look up more about him. From what I can read of Wallis, he started creating art to fill a hole, something just for him. There wasn’t too much care in being right or wrong in what he did, just that he DID.
How do we lose that? If you ask a child if they like to draw, they’ll invariably say “yes.” If you ask in adult if they like to draw, how FEW of them will say “yes?” And I can just guess that the reason is because they think they CAN’T or that it’s just not worthwhile.
I think… I think we have to stop losing the feeling that we can create art. Stop letting the pressure and the critique and the attention and the comparisons get to us. Let’s just make things, make them as best we can, and improve ourselves in whatever way we wish to. You have NO IDEA who you are impacting with what you create, don’t lessen that impact by diminishing yourself.
And that’s the hardest thing to do. But whenever I start in on that downward spiral, I try to think of Alfred Wallis again.
Completely splendid and utterly true.
Alan Watt’s famous, recently resurfaced lecture on what you would do if money were no object from the golden age of popularizing Eastern philosophy in the West, adapted as a comic by ZenPencils, who have previously given us Neil deGrasse Tyson’s brilliant monologue about the universe.
Complement with how to find your purpose and do what you love and 5½ timeless commencement speeches that teach you to define your own success.
I’m going to do this.
Why we create
This is probably the best thing ever.
Like seriously.
SERIOUSLY.
It’s the best thing….EVER!
Forever reblog
