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Ignore everybody - advice from the amusing scribbler on business cards.

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A funny and illustrated guide to how to take your creativity to wealth and happiness, with 37 points to bear in mind. From the guy who started a business after scribbling on the back of a business card.

Ignore Everybody blog-post

Now also available as a book.

Amazon link to Ignore Everybody book

Despite the advice, I promise to still read your Comments if you leave any. :-)

KC

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Comment by KC on July 2, 2009 at 8:21am: ---

I went back to it as promised (see my previous comment) and found this:

"One evening, after one false start too many, I just gave up. Sitting at a bar, feeling a bit burned out by work and life in general, I just started drawing on the back of business cards for no reason. I didn't really need a reason. I just did it because it was there, because it amused me in a kind of random, arbitrary way.

Of course it was stupid. Of course it was uncommercial. Of course it wasn't going to go anywhere. Of course it was a complete and utter waste of time. But in retrospect, it was this built-in futility that gave it its edge. Because it was the exact opposite of all the "Big Plans" my peers and I were used to making. It was so liberating not to have to be thinking about all that, for a change.

It was so liberating to be doing something that didn't have to impress anybody, for a change.

It was so liberating to be doing something that didn't have to have some sort of commercial angle, for a change.

It was so liberating to have something that belonged just to me and no one else, for a change.

It was so liberating to feel complete sovereignty, for a change. To feel complete freedom, for a change."

That's just how I felt when I sketched Fred the Fireman. Cool.

Money-making from art - earlier post

KC

Comment by KC on July 2, 2009 at 7:39am: At the risk of alienating Adrian, I better say that this advice might be better stated as:

"only listen to those who are on your side"

as outsiders can often point out things which you can't see, which may be right under your nose.

@Trey&Juliana - he even takes his irreverent attitude into the font and layout of that blog post ! Its all in bold, a large font size and liberally sprinkled with his cartoons. It reminds me of that Hunter S. Thomson "Gonzo" guy, who teamed up with a cartoonist who was renowned for leaving ink splots on his work, and for breaking his nibs, with an accompanying ink-spray across that area, so ferocious and heavy-handed was his drawing technique. Ralph Steadman was his name, I think.

@Scott - considering the grilling you're going through, it's good to see you've still kept your sense of humour. I guess you could use this very same blog-post to refuse to take 2 weeks off to walk along a river-bank, as I had suggested, to let your subconscious resolve the issues. Seems like I've shot myself in the foot ! :-)

Just for fun, I'm going to try to write down the 40 points he mentions, from memory. Mmm... let me see - there was something about working hard, I remember. Oh dear... better go back and study it a bit closer.

KC