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writing
No, I know. This isn’t the first writing session. But I thought if I just call it “writing” Wordpress should add a number. And I think it will. The next time I call an article “writing”.
But anyway I was planning to do a drawing today.
A few days ago while doing one of my lines drawings [...] -
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Shipping
I just saw a video by Seth Godin about shipping.
He mentions something I never realized.
I always thought that being an artist is about making beautiful and interesting drawings. But not according to Seth.
Seth Godin says that any business is about shipping.
And of course he is right.
In the Christmas holiday I started a very complicated drawing [...] -
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Denouncing Promen’s embezzlement
A few months ago I promised you a story a day… and dropped of the face of the earth.
The last few months have been a bit tense.
In August, last year, I wrote a letter to the board of my company in which I accused the head of finance of embezzlement.
The board has taken the letter [...] -
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My defining traits
I came across a post by Steve Pavlina about this guy who has a site about deprogramming limiting beliefs in about 20 minutes.
Normally I wouldn’t have given much stock to somebody with such a claim. But coming from Steve Pavlina there must be something to it. So I went to have a look.
In his first [...] -
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Here and now
Sometimes it helps to look at something from a different perspective.
For the last 30 odd years I’ve been trying to get rid of my (at times) very annoying habit of talking to myself.
Not only by will power but also by trying to figure out why I did it and what the purpose might be.
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Trapped
I feel trapped.
My job is boring and pointless.
My favorite bar is about to go belly up (although the owner still doesn’t know it).
I have hardly any friends.
I hardly ever talk to the kind of people I like to talk with.
I’ve got to get out of here.
Being autistic I’m told that I lack the skills that [...] -
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Artist
This morning I realized that by there very nature artists must be very self centered people.
I was thinking about this drawing I was going to do that wouldn’t be very nice. Actually I was quite curtain that I wouldn’t like the drawing. And that you would have a hard time finding someone who did.
So why [...] -
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Self doubt
I made a few more color mixing test sheets. And threw them out.
This isn’t working.
For one thing because it’s boring. Both to look at as to make them. Also it makes me feel like I’m going back to school. With all the pencil numbers I have to study to figure out how to combine colors.
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The journey
Because I’m still walking with a crutch, because I broke my hip last year November, I can’t cycle.
I hate it. It’s to slow.
And of course I can’t walk very far. So I take the bus a lot.
I don’t like the bus either. Not only because it takes much more time to reach down town by [...] -
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Lessons I learned while buying fish and chips
I know. This is rather a cheesy title, isn’t it
But the lessons I learned are so defining for my development as an artist that I can’t continue this blog without sharing it with you. So here it goes.
An immigrant’s son starts a business. Kind of a fish and chips shop (although in the Netherlands [...]
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