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We had to write a Mini Comic for my Illustration Class so I did mine based on The Frog and The Scorpion. Hopefully you all know the story! 

But if you don’t know the story… In the original the scorpion stings the frog in the middle of the river. When the frog asks “why” the scorpion says “it’s in my nature” and they both die. I like my ending more.

Done with watercolor and pen and ink nib.

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wowjuststfu

We can manage our own behavior.

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austinkleon

Don't discard. Keep all your pieces in play.

I’ve been thinking about that Margaret Atwood quote I posted, “You’re supposed to do one thing. If you do more than that, people get confused.”

It’s not just that other people get confused – you yourself get confused. You love all these things, but you feel like you’re supposed to pick one.

The best talk I ever heard/drew on the subject was Steven Tomlinson at TEDxAustin in 2010. He told this story: he was going around trying to figure out what he was supposed to do with his life, so he decided to visited a professor named Will Spong, who had a reputation for being a no-nonsense hardass. Steven went to his office and explained how he loved business, he loved theater, and he loved the seminary, and then he asked Spong to tell him which one he should choose to pursue. This is how Spong answered:

This is the stupidest question anyone has asked me. You’re telling me that there are three things you love and you want me to tell you which two to cut off…so you can limp along on the other one? This is not how things work. The advice I have for you is: don’t discard. Find a way to keep all three of these things in the mix. We’ll find out [what you should do for a living]. Right now, what you do is spend 2 hours a week whole-heartedly engaged in each of those 3 things. Let them them talk to each other. Something will begin to happen in your life that is unique and powerful.

He went on to explain, “You don’t need a career, you need a calling. And right now, you’re listening.” Here’s Steven:

Now, it’s interesting how he framed this puzzle: that there’s this technology for finding your way that doesn’t involve making some bold sacrificial commitment, but rather, being determined to keep all the pieces in play, and trusting that there’s some wisdom in that, that’s going to start to burble up into something you’re looking for. This is perhaps what the theologian and writer Frederich Buechner meant when he said, “You find your calling where your deep passion meets the world’s deep need.”

The thing is, you can cut off a couple passions and only focus on one, but after a while, you’ll start to feel phantom limb pain. I spent my teenage years obsessed with songwriting and playing in bands, but then I decided I needed to focus on *just* writing, so I spent half a decade hardly playing any music at all. The phantom pain got worse and worse. Luckily, about six months ago I started playing in a garage band with my friends every Sunday. Now, I’m starting to feel whole again. And the crazy thing is that rather than the music taking away from the art, it find it interacting with the art and making it better–new synapses firing, new connections being made, etc.

So, yeah, it’s a lesson I constantly have to re-learn: don’t discard. Keep all your pieces in play.

Thanks, Steven.

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austinkleon

If this post (from 2011) seems familiar, part of it made its way into Steal Like An Artist.

You can watch Steven’s talk here. Still some of the best advice I’ve ever heard:

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NASA recently released imagery showing the deforestation of America  …in just 34 years.

We are killing the Earth

Forever reblog.

Oh wow

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dtothev

Damn dawg

this makes me want to cry

i dont normally reblog this kinna stuff but…c’mon

Guys we need to get our shit together

I don’t know about you, but this makes me frightened of the future

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p3n1s

I just fucking love it when this picture makes it’s way around my dash again because it really speaks to me about HOW FUCKING GULLIBLE AND STUPID YOU ALL ARE OH MY GOD FUCKING IDIOTS. 

YOU SEE THAT 1978 PICTURE REAL PRETTY RIGHT? LOOK AT THE 2012 ONE NOW OTHER THAN YOUR SMALL BRAINS NOT BEING ABLE TO UNDERSTAND SHIT OTHER THAN “LESS TREES” WHAT ELSE IS DIFFERENT??????!!!!!!!!

OH THAT’S RIGHT YOU LITTLE SHITS NORTH AMERICA SURE SEEMS TO BE A LOT HIGHER UP ON THE GLOBE THAN IT WAS IN 1978!! WHAT OH SHIT IS THAT GLOBAL WARMING? PLATE TECTONICS ON STEROIDS???? 

NO

THE EARTH IN THE 2012 PICTURE IS GOING THROUGH THIS THING CALLED WINTER

WINTERRRRRRRR

DO YOU WANT TO BUILD A FUCKING SNOWMAN

NO

BECAUSE YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS IN THE WINTER??? TREES LOSE THEIR LEAVES AND SO THE COUNTRY LOOKS A BIT PALER.

FOR A FUN FACT, THE UNITED STATES HAS SAID THAT AT LEAST FOR THE APPALACHIAN REGION WE HAVE GROWN BACK EVERY TREE THAT WE HAVE LOST SINCE DEFORESTATION STARTED IN THE 1700'S 

SO FUCK OFF WITH THIS STUPID FUCKING POST OMG. 

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escapekit

Stars Bursting In The Night Sky

Australian photographer Lincoln Harris collection ‘Star trails’, surreal swirls in the sky, created from a multitude of long-exposure shots and the effect of the Earth’s rotation. 

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