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I FEEL SO good and healthy.
SO much waste of fruit/vegetable meat, and always having to clean the juicer every time. But thats it.
I would like to state how community flow is really important for me. No, not only for me but to many people. Just many people aren't aware of this.
I think the interactions between the artist and watchers - and whole community relationships thing - is one of the most vital parts that our creations exist. Writers have fans, travelers, artists, illustrators, companies, fashion bloggers etc. and so on. You may call it as a "fanbase", thus I prefer to not call because "fans" and "fanbase" has a lot of negative stereotypes and image about blindly screaming "minors". I'd prefer to name differently, because I do not view them as minors. Absolutely. I view them as an every worthy human on equal worth as the creator and that's a fact. They are just guests to creator.
My creations, artwork and deviantART page (or everywhere else, such like blog, Facebook Page, my own FB, twitter, instagram, website etc.) is a home of my world and I'm the master of my world. You are just entering to my world. You are my respectable guest. Not a loyal minor but a guest where I hope you'll enjoy. And "Loyal fans" aren't servers for me.... but actually we create a team. Thanks to you guys we can do more. When I say "loyal fans" I'm not talking about fan who will protect me to death with childlish devART dramas (that is a common image of them) but people who admire my art but want to approach closer, such like very interactive people, giving me wonderful advices, share ideas, critiques, supportive (and not only they help me but other people too)... just simply, let's name them friends perhaps.
That's right, you are a valuable guest, not a minor. If you are acting exactly as a minor, is that what you do on your own wish and not what I'm doing to you. If you are a negative influencing (a troller, or have negative/drama purposes) is a problem of yours, not mine.
And I hope I'll be a good owner of my land.
But again, a small difference to actual hosts... I'll be one who I am. Not pretending a supernice and welcoming host- I am who I am and I'll be naturally by myself. I may not be the right person for everyone, the best you can do is to leave my land to not waste your wonderful energy and time if I don't influence you positively. You are responsible for yourself, not for others nor what they will do to you. I like to travel, be positive thinking, be inspired and inspire others and share with my art there. You don't have to match with my likes, anyway.
My favourite hosts are mushers and people from faraway places. I've been travelling to many places. Most of hosts who invited me to their land/houses/world are very cultural, too nice and just... ugh fake pretendy to be nice, well serving me and so on. I had uncomfortable feelings of highest manners because... whole fakeness rubbed me out in wrong way. I'm a person who lives with the truth, not pretending or fakeness. But mushers which I used to visit and local places... they were just straight. Welcome to my land. Absolute no pretending with like "would you like a tea?". Feel free to explore.
Then how I felt so comfortably, I asked if I could help with dogs for them.
They liked my cooperation. And then we became friends and I became a part of team.
I, as a guest, became very vital part of their future plans with mushing teams.
What I am meaning, there was no huge gap between of "better" human (host, leader, owner, president, artist etc.) and "minor" human (guest, fan, watcher etc.)
Comments, interactions, suggesting ideas, exchanging with ideas, collaborating, supporting, helping (no, not only to the artist but other way too.) each other, critiques, opinions... and even friendships. I'll tell ya guys that I found a few of very best friends.... via deviantART (and not only DA but you get my point). Many wonderful, brilliant people I've met through there and we are pretty much amazing irl friends. Those people are very sweet, brilliant and worthy friends.... and they were just "fans" of my work simply. I'm looking now how it's amazing to think how many years ago they were just neutral fans and buyers of my artwork... now we are in totally different place. How I'm so grateful for that. Of course in the past when I was younger, I made many mistakes with community as well. But we are humans after all and mostly ones who raised in our west civilizations filled with negativity... that's how it's.
That's why, since lately I've been studying Lean Thinking…. my most favourite lesson is about (deeply down I knew this… but I was unaware. Our civilization has taught us to be strong, cool and better than other. Absolutely no glimpse of humility, only buddhism shown me this a long time ago..)….. humility.
A good leader is one who teaches people to be a leader.
A good leader is a humble person and does have sense of humility.
A fake (bad) leader is one who creates anxiety to people around him and treats others like minors with his sense of feeling of being high/powerful. A fake leader does not teach people to be a leader because of the will to protect it's high position and power.
A lot of groups, teams and companies has fallen because of fake leaders. What makes team strong is the potential of all people in team who are working/creating on the product/result, not the product/result by itself. With a good leader- who is open minded, does not create anxiety with people, but helps to all people to reveal every person's inner power and potential. A bad leader is one who pushes away people's potential. Anxiety is the reason where people hide in themselves.
Shortly to say, a good leader makes teammates and people to feel worthy.
True leader is a mentor for people, not a ruler or guru to be followed.
td;lr, if anyone is bored... then:
I should get back to drawing, too!
And I know- I SHOULD BE DRAWING.
Can I perhaps hire you as my therapist? X3 Once again your words improved my attitude
I wish that a lot of people wouldn't get so scared of popular and well known artists around here. Not scared, but, nervous when interacting with them. I admit, I do it too. I shouldn't, and I remind myself that they are people too, they're just really good at drawing, they're not gods or anything like that. It's a shame it has to be this way, because all of us are people.
If my art ever gets really well known, I'll make sure to take the time to talk to my watchers and stuff. I'll let them know that there's no reason to be nervous, if they become that way, because I won't get angry at them or any silly thing like that! I already try to encourage people to draw and the watchers I do have, I always reply to them.
Thanks for being so inspiring!
I think good leaders are good people, simple as that. As there are many good and bad things out there it's up to everyone to choose what to 'follow'. Shame is when good leaders are in front of people who need them and don't know how to recognize them.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, ignoring the bad side of dA I'm pretty glad I found it and you consequently (:
this was my previous basic drawing i teacher and... i never was able to explain it this well to the people who were in control of my shifting classes.
i did get shifted.
but
my ex-professor was exactly this. anxiety-invoking, pretending to be upper class/rich woman who talked to her students (college students) as if we were fifth graders/10 year olds with no sense...
it was nerve wracking.
i wish i could have explained this.
i have said something kind of similar in public speech, which everyone has to take regardless of majour. i told my teacher that i prefer teachers and speechists who are very natural, humble, have a sense of humility. they don't sound robotic, talking from a script. they don't talk with empty words. their way of relating is actual and true, not false, like how most adults try chatting about their children to others because it's an easy out for how to relate to most people (tho those of us who have no desire for children or do not yet have any are booted out of discussion and alienated in our cores--whether we realise it or not, there is a sense of 'this discussion does not include me...'). some of these professors admit their flaws (my english teacher admitted he throws grammar completely out the window online, and i respected that more than any professor talking about his/her children), and admit that what they teach is not exactly important outside of necessity. i like it when people go on tangents. they just lose focus for a minute and return to it. i like that. i like when people pause and go blank and realise they fuck up. i like it when they apologise for it. i like it when they admit they're not entirely prepared. i like it when they own themselves, and they are not trying to appeal to the layman when they are rich ceo-types.
i like it when people are real. if you are a ceo who is worth over $50 million, and you say you feel the economy, i get offended and i begin believing your words are false. however, if you are a ceo worth $50 million and you admit to it and are humble about the fact that you really have no clue how wallet-breaking the economy is, at least i can respect that. even if you are saying you can empathise with the people under you, but you cannot understand how that feels identically, i respect that. it's true. someone who makes $50mil a year will never understand a lower class member's feelings when gasoline goes up $.40, because they fill their tank without realising it costs $70 to do so, that's chump change.
many professors, and schools, teach their students that 'real' is not correct, that falsifying yourself is how to be... and once that's pounded into a young mind (i went to a private school, which taught a method of 'teach yourself' where there was about 2-4 hours of work a day and most the day was independent studies, and i was 5-7 when i went) it will never change. this generation tho, i find, we actually ask. we don't sit back and take it. we don't take a 'fact' without saying that it needs proof, evidence, sources. and i like that. but still, older generations, they don't understand that their ways of propaganda and speech is not what we prefer, so we ask and they get offended or angry, or both. they find it an attack. they find it fake. when it is real and genuine. or maybe they are shocked that we ask and we want proof, and they don't have it and they don't understand why we don't take it as truth, and they find it disrespectful to 'elders'. if people really want to hit this generation, it takes more than emotional appeal and expecting belief due to age.
i always adore your journals. you're so clear on your words. i admire that.
People need to focus on the WORLD being better. Not just a select group of people to make better (ie: fixing corrupt government). That is trying to make people that already ar4e corrupted by power and greed better. That is not likely to happen. I am not saying all leaders are bad, but most days you only hear about bad ones. Ones found to takre advantage of people for personal gain.
To lead a group, you must be willing to look at everyone and keep the whole team in good shape. For a king without his country is not a king. He is merely a man. But a country, a well-off and supportive country, that works together, to have a king to lead them as a group of equals, that is a true king.
Also, I think in terms of "fans" or "fanbases" that this is a double edged sword. You can either do good or bad with it. Some people use the group that they have gained to educate the world, and the group themselves. They do good things, get noticed, and then when they have a group of "guests" they make that group even better as people be actually caring about them to provide for them as human beings, not just a fan club. A bad host I guess would be a person that does things to keep the spot light for teh sake of keeping it. They do nothing for making the group better as people, enriching their lives or teaching a lesson. They want the attention for their ego.
I try to emulate that, I see what people want to see or maybe have questions. I answer them and try to make things informative to useful to others. I try to help out when I can, lol you know this, even if it means going out of my way. Helping others, even to the detriment of yourself, is a good leader.
Yeah, you may not have power over the masses. But you have the heart and support of the masses.