Who would have thought a whole industry of creative and interactive and engaging works would be all over the place. When I was a kid, I read comic books and watched cartoons, and thought, this could be better, and today, it is better, it was always better in my head, in my imagination. The stories would take on a life of there own, and some of what makes todays cartoons and continued story-lines from classic comics and new story-lines with new an interesting and creative characters, is that they have built themselves as continuations, improved themselves, and alot of like minded bros and gurls have really just gone there and made wicked awesome stories and characters! From legion of superheros, to ben10, to ben10 alienForce, to cable - the x-men franchise, spidey, batman&robin, teen titans, remakes and newbies, new comics - fantastic stories and movies. Re-inventions, good and bad, it’s pushing into the mainstream, and my Uncle recently said to me, “You know, when you were a kid, and would be interested in this ’stuff’ I got worried,. I thought, what would he do when he gets older and needs a job. He said one day, a friend said, he’ll do something that hasn’t been invented yet.”
I didn’t know how i was gonna make money when I was younger. I was a bus-boy, a camp counselor, a cook, a dish-washer, a bouncer, and then I was a photographer, and learned archiving, and then I landed a gig doing tee-shirts cause someone I met while waiting tables broke his ankle and needed a replacement till he got better. I got my lucky break, literally. What my uncle said was true. He was concerned, and sometimes I am too, but, what’s true is, so quickly the world has changed to become as fantastic and awesome as we want it to be. We are carving out new realms of content to explore and engage and new ways to see it, read it, hear it and interact with it, and whether the star trek tricorder is the device, or a new magic watch influenced by Dick Tracey, or some wicked spaceship time machine that makes you transform, or fly. Man, we got some wicked sweet times infront of us. I can’t wait to see what my kid makes.
Basically, foster the sharing, the growth, if you like the comics, the cartons, don’t let anyone tell you, enough with that junk. Dude, keep it going, Make your own. Your’s could be the next great one 30 years down the road, or even 30 days down the road. We are at a time where anyone can be the next awesome drop producer. Make it. Don’t listen to the may sayers. Make it again, and a gain and get someone else excited, they might be the one who gets it, but you may be the one who supplies the vehicle for them to get there. Work hard and be prolific.
It’s not about being right, it’s about taking the steps to get there sometimes. Produce, make it awesome. Re-work. Mess up. it’s great to mess up. You remember mistakes more than successes. It’s in the mistakes that you may find your awesomeness. Share with others. They might not like what you are doing. They may think it’s wrong. But the feedback is valuable. Show it to someone else. IT’s helpful. Don’t be too sensitive, cause, well, they could be wrong, but it is a valid opinion.
It’s a good quote, and I am taking it out of content, it’s from Barry Schuler about twitter and it’s short outage, run in parallel comparison to the outage AOL had early on. It’s contrasting service and users and reliance and loyalty, but it also gets to diligence, and making it gogo, and what in the end we get excited about:
We may accept low quality service cell phones. But when we pick up the phone, we expect a dial tone. When you send e-mail, you expect it will be delivered. So this clearly is something Twitter has to take seriously. If they do go ahead and understand that they need to have a bullet proof back end–and that sort of thing is expensive–they could wind up with the same good news success story. If not, people are going to go to someone else.
Do it. Be prolific. Mess up. Do it again. Getting right. Make it again. Better. Mess up, make it better, you get the point.
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