Comments on: “good ideas have lonely childhoods”

By: Linda Mikulich

Linda Mikulich — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:31:03 +0000

All so true. It has been my entire life. Recently prime example. I started my new gallery. My so called gentleman friend purchased another business across the street “for me to have a better location”, he took it over and made it a tourist shop featuring my art instead of my gallery.
User. I find most uncreative people are users of we creative people. I have moved on starting another art related business. raspberries to him!
Love the article. we artist should move to another planet. All art and great conversation!

By: Ginny Fry

Ginny Fry — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:41:06 +0000

The work of Matisse was, at first, regarded with bated breath, revulsion, even horror. He was said to have taken art to its most dreadful extreme. They called it “violent,” and it was subject to tremendous ridicule.
Where have you ever seen a statue erected to honor the memory of a “critic”?

By: m'sblog

m'sblog — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:28:24 +0000

Who better to exemplify the "ignore everybody/lonely childhood" idea than my favorite artist ever Vincent van Gogh, whose genuis was unappreciated, until, that is, it was so massively--more than $80 million worth, actually--appreciated after his death. Considered a loser in his lifetime by many, a genius thereafter, his work exemplifies not just "lonely childhoods" but "lonely adulthoods" as well. In other words, just because others don't get it, even if they NEVER get it, does not mean it is not brilliant or worth doing.

By: hugh macleod

hugh macleod — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:32:36 +0000

Hey Brad, yeah, like the Internet itself, it may seem like old news to folks like you and me, but that being said, it’s still very much in its infancy. And there’s the opportunity…
“Early Adoptors” are just one small piece of the puzzle.…

By: Bradley Allen

Bradley Allen — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:07:03 +0000

Not to sound ageist, but ‘digital nomad’ belongs in a back issue of Wired magazine circa 1994. It ranks right up there ‘disruptive change’ and ‘multimedia gulch’ — which Yahoo! Maps finally removed from a certain physical section of San Francisco.
Now I want to go and find an old Apple PowerBook Duo on eBay so I can be a hacker-tourist.

By: Long

Long — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:05:26 +0000

Turns out many of us committed #5 in parts of our lives. I did one just recently. I guess it was just another pillar for my own ambitions.

By: Eamon

Eamon — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:05:40 +0000

Hugh.
This brilliant post slipped through the net (amongst many, many posts) on my 250 list. Still in the process of tweaking (need to plough through lots more posts, and more). But just to let you know added this post to the list under ‘Creative’.

By: John Philipp

John Philipp — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:47:30 +0000

Hugh, I have been browsing and enjoying your words and cartoons.
Also your HTBC words (having been in the “creativity and innovation business for decades).
Thought you might be interested in my take at life (at the URL above), also words with cartoons. As I can’t draw, Phil Frank did them for me.
Thanks for the thought provokers.
John

By: Tomi Itkonen

Tomi Itkonen — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:26:16 +0000

Number 1. Yeah, I'm currently on the "people scratching their heads" phase with these: http://thebookofw.com http://duuds.tumblr.com Regarding duuds... Around ten years ago, I was planning to grab the domain doodleoftheday.com, and start publishing my doodles on the web. Was it kids, or work, or something, I ditched the idea then. Now, thanks to your inspiration, I've time and inclination to do it. It's always interesting to see what happens on the web; do creations resonate with other people perhaps?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:03:21 +0000

What a great cartoon… what an existential paradox! Oh the woes of wolfdom… oh the woes of sheepdom… thanks Hugh!

By: Eamon

Eamon — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:59:40 +0000

This is a really interesting, and in my view, spot-on, article.
In particular, in my opinion:
“ignore Everybody”
“Good ideas have lonely childhoods”
“But I can also clearly remember when I first started drawing them, the default reaction was “people scratching their heads”.
- Can imagine.
“GOOD IDEAS ALTER THE POWER BALANCE IN RELATIONSHIPS, THAT IS WHY GOOD IDEAS ARE ALWAYS INITIALLY RESISTED.”
“The older I get, the truer this sentence seems to be. Especially in industries that are more relationship-driven, than idea-driven”
- kind of related to this point: Ogilvy said: ‘There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don’t destroy them. They lay golden eggs.’

By: michael

michael — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:34:48 +0000

god, could that book come sooner, please?
will you be reading an audiobook version? that would be killer.
i need to be reading when there is light and listening when it’s dark for constant consumption, reaffirmation and review.

By: jon oropeza

jon oropeza — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:54:06 +0000

Good stuff, Hugh. I really like #6 on this list. One of the most important lessons I’ve learned in my life. Such a huge confidence booster as a young man to realize that there are no ivory towers, that the world’s a collection of balancing acts built and maintained largely on guts, moxie & willpower, with healthy doses of bluff and spec thrown in.

By: Alex de Carvalho

Alex de Carvalho — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:28:35 +0000

It’s nice to see you add perspective and depth to your older drawings. Like good wines, some ideas improve with time.

By: Health&Care Mall

Health&Care Mall — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:05:51 +0000

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