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Welcome to Matter Anti-Matter, a site about nerd stuff. By day, I'm Head of Community at Kickstarter.
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Video reblogged from The Atlantic
8 Bits of Wisdom From Neil Gaiman on Being a Creator
This is a fantastic speech by Neil Gaiman, addressing the 2012 graduating class of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Gaiman himself never graduated from college—in fact, he never even enrolled in college—yet he earned his place in literary culture as one of the most celebrated and prolific writers working today. Here, he imparts several pieces of life wisdom on young people beginning a career in the arts.
- Say “no” to projects that take you further from rather than closer to your own creative goals, however flattering or lucrative.
- Approach your creative labor with joy, or else it becomes work.
- Embrace your fear of failure. Make peace with the impostor syndrome that comes with success. Don’t be afraid of being wrong.
- When things get tough, make good art.
Read the rest. [via Brain Pickings]
Also highly relevant for anyone interested in making a Kickstarter project.
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I love Kickstarter. I spent fifteen minutes this morning looking at projects people sent me, and backing the ones that caught my interest, and trying to work out why the ones that didn’t, didn’t.Neil Gaiman loves Kickstarter. No big deal.
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And I would have traded an awful lot of Being Neil Gaiman today for someone there who would have made me a cup of tea and given me a hug.
Neil Gaiman, on how sometimes even Neil Gaiman has a rough Valentine’s Day.
Give this man ALL THE HUGS.
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There are two people in the world I would fictional marry. One is Captain Picard, who yes, I realize is not a real person (I did say fictional marry). The other is Neil Gaiman.
This video = just one more reason.
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Photo reblogged from Neil Gaiman
恭喜发财 everyone.
This one is just for Tumblr. You can tell because I am in my pyjamas. (I just had to teach my computer the spelling Pyjamas, after it corrected it to pajamas)
Reason #1,988,706 Neil Gaiman is awesome.
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That thing we talk about where you should let your Kickstarter backers know when rewards are coming? Notes on napkins work pretty well.
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But there is still a more precious gift that I brought back with me from that unforgettable stay: to have had the rare opportunity to visit one of my heroes up-close and still come away with all of the magic intact.The latest update from Christopher Salmon on his visit to Neil Gaiman’s home is amazing.
