Stuff I've done

STUFF I'VE DONE: Took bus to college with my big art folder. I made it look like a huge air mail envelope. Bus (cont) http://tl.gd/6ujsjj

STUFF I'VE DONE: Worked for another News Ltd paper in the ad dept. Lochlan Murdock didn't pop in either. (Like father, like son).

STUFF I'VE DONE: Worked in a Graphic Design dept of a News Ltd paper. When Rupert Murdock came for a visit, he never popped in to say hello

STUFF I'VE DONE: As Commercial Artist at my 1st newspaper job, some days were so quiet, I would draw jet cars all day.

STUFF I'VE DONE: Of course I loved art class in high school but they didn't grade art so some kids just messed around.

STUFF I'VE DONE: Kids used to get me to illustrate their school projects. They got good marks for initiative but low marks for effort.

STUFF I'VE DONE: The art on my heading pages in my school exercise books were so detailed that I kept the art & through away the books.

STUFF I'VE DONE: When I was 14 & 15, my school made me illustrator for the annual school magazine.

STUFF I'VE DONE: I used to draw so much that my school exercise books looked more like art journals.

STUFF I'VE DONE: By the time I was 12, I had over 50 model planes hanging from the lounge room ceiling. (It was my own air show)

STUFF I'VE DONE: When I was 10, I made an army tank from 'my' junk. It had an old toilet seat as the hatch.

STUFF I'VE DONE: When I was 5, I lived in flats that had a huge junk pile. My 1st playground. One day it was all gone. I was devastated.

STUFF I'VE DONE: I used to make the best cubby houses. Kid next door was so jealous but we had the best junk.

STUFF I'VE DONE: As a kid I used to jump off the house roof with a big plastic bag as a parachute. (I was a paratrooper)

STUFF I'VE DONE: As a kid I used to make a wall of boxes in a door frame & smash through. (I was Superman)

STUFF I'VE DONE: When I was 12, I made a town on my bedroom floor using small boxes, toy cars & soldiers for people. (Young urban planner).

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In the old days (when everything was still in black & white) ...actually, that sums up the newspaper I worked for. 

To be fair, newspapers did have color. You could have red or blue. But that was a lot of extra work.

In an early newspaper job, I would keep the drawings & photos in this thing called a Filing Cabinet.

Change is normal; I was a Paste-Up Artist for a newspaper. Yes, thats real 'Cut & Paste' people.

Be open to change. I worked for a newspaper that went from 'hot metal' typesetting to full digital workflow in 4 years. 

Steves quotes on being born creative & childhood creativity

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My daughter told a kid at school she's learning the clarinet. Kid said, "You don't look like a clarinet player".

I remind my kids, they have talents. I call them 'my little wonders'.

School kids already telling my kids, "You can't really do that". No wonder people don't trust their talents.Steves quotes on being born creative (childhood creativity)

Being an adult makes sense when we remember what we loved to create when we were kids.

An adult doesn't discover they are an artist. They only rediscover what is there.

An artist is the creation formed in the imagination of our own childhood.

So many of the worlds children are victims of an early adulthood.

I can feel like a care free child any time I like. I just pick up a pencil and draw.

You would never criticize or ignore a child that shows you his artwork. But we do that to the artist within.

I remember all the new art supplies I got 1st day of school. It was like Christmas. (Other kids were crying).

Man, I miss the smell of stationary. Art supplies too. Is that normal?

To a child, the whole world is a playground. Then we grow up & dream of finding our playfession.

Just heard someone say, "This (cooking) has helped me to rediscover my creative side".

People think, "I used to be creative", but it's still there, sleeping.

I wonder how many adults suffer from a lack of creative expression?

Adults suffer from play deprivation as much as children do.

Creativity, Play & Love seem to be facets of the same thing.

I remember a drawing I did when I was 3. It looked like Mr Potato Head.

Yes, we are all born creative. It's just that we are all creative in different ways.

When I grow up, I want to be me.

The goal of a successful artist is to return to a child-like play & curiosity, without becoming nostalgic of the past.

The artist and the child within us are the same person.

Met a guy this week that remembered me from college. He remembered artwork I did there 28 years ago. Wow

A person can spend half his life looking for a way back to that state of childlike creative play.

When I grow up, I want to come back to doing what I'm free to do now.