Hugh MacLeod
Cartoons drawn on the back of business cards
April 18, 2006
Two hypothetical questions:
1. “How do I use blogs to change the world?”
2. “How do I use blogs to preserve the status quo?”
I speak at a lot of blogging conferences and whatnot. Seems to me, as these gigs get more mainstream and corporate, I’m asked Question Two A LOT MORE than Question One.
Plus
I'm a cartoonist.
I sell limited-edition prints.
I wrote a book.
I'm CEO of Stormhoek USA, which markets South African wine in the States.
I also draw private commissions.
Prints |
Opening | Current |
|---|---|---|
Bluetrain |
$900 | |
We Need to Talk |
$650 | |
Portfolio #2 |
$300 | |
NY NY |
$275 |
oui, m’sieu
though wouldn’t you say blogs have already changed the world else question 2 would be moot?
I think blogs have already changed the world; just not everybody’s ready to acknowlegde it yet.
1. use blogs to tell the untold or to tell something in a brand new way!
2. do not use blogs, or use blogs to “sell” same usual trash in usual (trashed) way.. I got large personal experience about this last way..
anyway large amount of alchol could help to find the answer!
hugh, that I gotta agree with, in fact intend to participate in a forum next month where the speaker’s blurb is, verbatim,
for my rebuttal.
“As the lines blur between “official” journalists and crackpot bloggers, Hollywood blockbusters and “independent” films, and true praise and product placement, what can we trust?”
totally, excellent cartoon btw, as usual, I shall …uh…borrow it
That’s a great twist on one of my all-time fave quotes: “never teach a pig to sing. it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
Hugh:
Any word on the Stormhoek roll-out in the States?
Then, how about in “fly-over” country like Wisconsin. I can’t wait to get some!
Thanks!
Qu.2/Answer: You don’t
Did someone mention dinosaurs!
Re: Q2. You don’t need to Hugh, they’ve already got one! http://www.statusquo.co.uk/
1. I actually show up.
2. I forget who I am and ask the speaker.
3. [The question is irrelevant] I turn back the clock and become a dinosaur arguing with a meteor.
Exactly, B.L.
One well placed post on something everyone wants goes from zero to a million “impressions” before the meteor can be taken out by a nuke.
You asked a few posts back what we’re doing with the hi-res versions of your cartoons. Well, if you’ll post a hi-res version of this, the first thing I’ll do is take it to a copy shop and have it printed out on as big a piece of paper as the resolution will allow.
Now let’s work towards a world where bloggers get laid more often than Hugh Hefner.
Wow!
Hugh… next time you get around to doing shirts (or mugs or glasses or whatever…) this cartoon should be in there. Put me down for one now. Probably 2nd favorite to “Market for something to believe in is infinite”… or maybe 3rd now that you did the coffee one… we’ll need one of those too!
congrats to the Ego Surf : I did it too!!
Makes u feel good, na. the world changing.
Are you coming to Reboot?