There Are Vikings In Our Midst

Previously I’ve mentioned including the artist’s name when posting artwork but today, instead of fiddling with Wikipedia, I thought I’d go the extra pedantic mile here and write about artwork citation.

The MLA and Chicago Manual of Style give the basic format for artwork…

Posted December 4, 2011 at 6:05am | 82 notes

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Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. ~ Mark Twain

— Mark Twain

Posted July 2, 2011 at 10:11am

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Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.

— Ira Glass (via hyperallergic) This has proven to be one of our most reblogged and linked quotes. We posted it six months ago and it already has 2,759 notes. It’s such a great quote. (via hyperallergic)

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Posted July 2, 2011 at 7:34am | 3,111 notes

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