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Stay Positive & Jobs, Bosses, Pay Checks Change. We Are The Only Constant.
Garth E. Beyer
Month: February 2013
If Shipping Is An Event
If shipping is an event for you, you’re not doing it like an artist.
Events are for gatherings, huge interactions, and personal conversations with someone willing to contribute as much, if not more than you.
Events are for seminars and being the star of a publicized interview about your latest art.
Events have less to do with consistency, and more to do with the spontaneity of acknowledgment.
The actual shipping of your art is a habit, not an event. It’s meant to be a constant and predictably unpredictable action. Risk, over and over and over again leads to success. Risk once in a while just keeps you alive while you stand still.
Stay Positive & Make Your Art Into Your Sweet Disposition
Garth E. Beyer
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Have You Noticed (How Weird You Are)
Have you noticed it has now become easier to sell your dreams, your art, your little crafts people used to make fun of you for making. (By the way, applause to you for sticking through that.)
Have you noticed that people and yourself, have become more attracted to odd creations?
Rarely does anyone go into a store looking to find the most normal, unbiased, non-judgemental, gray blob of an object. No. You go in there looking for the bold, the interesting, the downright weird.
Shopping in its entirety has morphed into an art show.
So what’s your weird and where can I find it?
Stay Positive & Careful What Art You Search For
Garth E. Beyer
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How You Deliver
It’s not so much what you deliver. Getting caught up in that is a losing battle.
But, how you deliver matters a ton.
Do you make a phone call, respond to email, or knock on their door?
Does the Chef making your sushi work behind a wall or can you watch her create your meal?
Does the painter let you watch what he can do while he works or does he push you away and tell you he will be done in 4 hours, to come back then?
Does the student use a Powerpoint or her own voice, limbs, and energy?
Post industrialization, it’s not a matter of seeing to believe, it’s downright a desire to see all we can see. This makes how you deliver an extreme importance.
Stay Positive & Over Deliver
Garth E. Beyer
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Showing Up
People are naturally inclined to show up, to listen or to read when doing so will teach them how to react in similar situations.
Why listen to music? To relate and be given answers on how to act or think when certain things occur. Why read blogs? The same. Why watch soap opera’s or How I Met Your Mother? The same.
But, also notice that more people watch HIMYM than the Soaps. Why? Because it provides more relatable answers and responses that one can use in real life.
The trick to connecting, to building a tribe or to getting followers isn’t really a trick at all. It’s about creating a program where if something turns up in their life, they would know what to do about it.
Stay Positive & Start Getting People To Show Up
Garth E. Beyer
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Writing On The Wall
My friend Michelle inspired me to write this post.
When I was growing up, my first AIM (AOL instant messenger) username was Writing0nTh3WaLL. My favorite song was “The Writing On The Wall.” And oddly enough, I liked to write on walls. – Still do –
Today, I read a post of Michelle’s which said, “You may never see the writing on the wall.”
In NYC, there’s a thing called the Underbelly Project. It’s where you can find all the writing on the wall. But it’s a different kind of writing, the most passionate kind; the kind that those writing it knew it may not work.
When you wait and look for the writing on the wall you aren’t only playing it safe, you’re regressing.
With your art, nothing is certain even in your most certain moments. When you are waiting for the guarantee of success or failure, when you rehearse through every failure or success, when you try to steady your hand before you take a whack at the nail, you’ll never follow through. Doing is about risking.
When you use the writing on the wall idiom, you’re also insinuating that there are people who don’t see it. (If everyone could see it, there would be no need for the idiom.)
Leave it to other people to see the writing on the wall.
Stay Positive & More People Are Wrong About The Writing On The Wall Than They Are Right
Garth E. Beyer
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Reminders
We all need them and while some parents and maybe a friend or two will always be there to remind you, it’s not only that we need to be reminded more, it’s that we need to be reminded in different ways, by different people, who have different insights, and experiences.
Being reminded to turn the lights off, to keep your head up, that it get’s more difficult before it gets easier, all gets very old and less helpful when it’s monotonously and verbally repeated.
Reminding those you care about that you care about them loses its meaning when it’s the same ol’ same ol’.
Knowing this now gives you the ability to connect on a completely different level with family, friends, and strangers. Being creative isn’t only to be done with your art, it’s also meant to be incorporated in your interactions, your connections, and most importantly, you’re reminders.
Stay Positive & Remember, There’s A Lot We Forget
Garth E. Beyer