Terry Crews of Brooklyn 99 gives the best advice on physical fitness.
Seriously, his Reddit AMAis the most genuinely upbeat, positive actor interview ever. Another great bit:
To be honest, this was the healthiest advice for getting into working out I’ve ever read, and it really was the inspiration for me to start running and going to the gym.
No judgement, no “you need to be doing this” mess. Just a simple “do what you can. and feel comfortable”
As Bernie Sanders took the stage on Tuesday night, the cable networks continued doing what they do best – talking.
Fox News, CNN and MSNBC all declined to carry Sanders’ speech, instead offering jokes about the evening while showing live coverage of Trumps empty podium while promising that we were all, “AWAITING TRUMP” and “STANDING BY FOR TRUMP.“
In Fact: EVERY OTHER CANDIDATE HAD AIR TIME EXCEPT FOR SANDERS
As if these stations couldn’t get any more corrupt, The Huffington Post’s Michael Calderone reported that the media have collectively given Trump some $2 billion worth of free air time.
Don’t be fooled by the media ya’ll. You can watch his incredible speech here & remember You ARE his media
Anonymous: Dear ADs, I am a working artist who has not 'broken through'. I am in my mid 30's and not yet 'a big deal'. It's difficult at this point to start new projects because I despair of ever reaching the career goal posts I have set for myself. I intellectually understand that I am not old, but it is hard to see artist after artist in their early 20s being lifted aloft and not judge myself as wanting in comparison. Sincerely- 'Wasn't cool when I was young, either'.
This is both a really personal, and also a really universal issue. Let me answer you in a bit of stream of consciousness here, bear with me.
1—”Breaking thru” and “Big Deal” are completely arbitrary concepts, depending entirely on your POV. I am friends with artists who were (and still are) heroes to me. They’re so famous, and so goddamn good, that you’d think they could rest on their laurels and finally relax and just go about being great and enjoying it. But it’s not true, because that feeling of never being where you want to be, not having made it yet, never goes away. It doesn’t matter how far you climb, that feeling climbs with you. So get used to it. In a way, you need it. The artists that don’t have that drive never rise above mediocre. It’s that dissatisfaction that keeps you striving. Unfortunately it can also make you miserable. Each of us needs to find a way to balance and walk the tightrope between being dissatisfied enough to keep growing, while letting ourselves be pleased with what we’ve accomplished at the same time.
And remember, no matter where you are on the ladder - you’re only looking up the ladder to your heroes. Remember there’s also people below you on the ladder looking to YOU and wishing they could be where you are.
2—Don’t fall into the trap of comparing the 100% of your life that you know with the 10% or 25% or even 50% of someone else’s life that you can see. Social media and the internet in general is the worst for this, but it happens in real life too…you’ll see someone’s successes and not see their hardships. We do this naturally as human beings. We don’t put our chronic diseases, our divorces, our depressions, our failures, out there for the world to see nearly as much as we celebrate our wins. You see the artist suddenly getting all the book cover commissions, but you don’t see that they’re stuck in the house 5 out of 7 days with Crohn’s Disease. You see someone get into Spectrum or American Illustration, but you don’t see that they’re going through a period of depression and intense dissatisfaction with their work to the point that they haven’t made anything new in six months. You see the concept artist working on a bunch of big movies, but you don’t see them struggling with overwork injuries. The key here is to just assume, just know, that you’re not seeing the whole story. Don’t compare your lows to another person’s highs.
3—Goals are both critical to your success, but at the same time, can defeat you before you begin. Instead of setting really big goals that immediately overwhelm you with how far you have to climb to get there, try setting priorities instead. This exercise might help.
4—The solution is to stop caring about what everyone else is doing, how young or old everyone else is, and especially worrying that you’re too old, too late, not where you want to be yet, haven’t hit an arbitrary goalpost. Just put your head down and make great work. Show it to the right people. Repeat. You’ll get there. Everyone who has gotten there ahead of you got there this way.
do men have resting bitch faces as well or do they not have negative characteristics ascribed to them for putting on a neutral rather than a deliriously happy facial expression
Yes, Black men in majority white spaces do. If I don’t smile every single second of the day my coworkers become in intimidated and start asking me what’s wrong, telling me to smile, make jokes about how I’m trying to be a thug/act hard, why am I angry, etc. And it’s not just white men at my job God FORBID I my large Black ass makes a white girl feel threaten because I’m sitting down with a neutral expression.
I’m not trying to take this post away from women and make it about Black men but I want to point out that wether it’s patriarchy or white supremacy; those who feel as if they have power over you HATE to see you not smile. They are so used to people like you smiling to gain their approval that when you don’t there’s a cognitive dissonance that makes them extremely uncomfortable.
That’s why “angry Black women” is a thing. They have to put on a smile for everyone (yes even feminist white women) or we all get uncomfortable.
The Animation Arts Maarket is the heart of TAAFI 2016 Independant artists are invited to grandstand on the second floor of the Maarket space in ‘Indie Alley’. Priced to accommodate independent artists, Indie Alley tables are an excellent space for creatives to show, sell and talk art with attendees of TAAFI 2016. With a history of attracting more than 1,000 registered animation arts students and professionals from across Canada, TAAFI’s Animation Arts Maarket - Indie Alley is an excellent place to show your work.
DETAILS:
Location:
George Brown College (GBC) - Waterfront Campus, 2nd Floor 51 Dockside Drive, Toronto, Ontario
Dates:
Saturday April 23 - Sunday April 24
Operating hours:
Saturday April 23: 9 am open - 5 pm close Sunday April 24: 10 am open - 5 pm close
TABLES IN THE INDIE ALLEY AREA ARE PERFECT FOR ARTISTS!
Students, independent freelancers and collectives of four (4) or fewer: The Animation Arts Maarket - Indie Alley offers you the chance to showcase your work to the animation arts industry and the attending general public, and to introduce your fans to the smiling face behind that work. TAAFI offers specially priced tables of 4’ to individuals and collectives who would like to showcase and/or sell work in the Maarket. Studios, schools and retailers are invited to register for a Maarket - Studio Floor Booth or Table. Registration for both floors can be found at taafi.com/maarket.
EVENT DETAILS
TAAFI 2016, April 22-25 welcomes Eric Goldberg (Aladdin, Pocahontas), Audu Paden (Animaniacs), Tony Benedict, Willie Ito, Jerry Eisenberg (Hanna-Barbera) and Michael Rianda (Gravity Falls) for a weekend of shorts and feature film screenings, behind the scenes, creator Q&As and industry networking events.
*Admittance is not included in the purchase of an Indie Alley table. To participate in these amazing events, please purchase a pass at taafi.com/passes.
INDIE ALLEY FLOOR PLAN
The Animation Arts Maarket will be taking over the whole ground floor of George Brown for their Maarket of studios, schools and exhibitors. The Indie Alley will be situated on the 2nd floor of the festival, right outside the doors of main screening area, the Seneca Auditorium, and beside the VIP area, and speaker rooms. There are only twenty 4 foot artists tables available.
TABLE COSTS
4 Foot Table:
$99 CAN + HST & service fees
4’ sectioned table
Black table cloth
One chair
One artist only per 4 foot table
THE APPLICATION PROCESS
Applicants will be accepted at TAAFI’s discretion based on appropriate content and thematic fit in the realm of ‘indie artists’ within the theme of ‘animation arts’. Fill out our online application form at taafi.com/maarket before midnight on March 31, 2016 for the final deadline. Regular applicants will be juried and successful applicants will be contacted via email by March 23, 2016. Once an applicant is successful they will have five (5) days to complete payment to confirm their Indie Alley table in TAAFI 2016. When applying applicants will be required to enter their credit card information into a secure site, but TABLE COSTS will ONLY be billed if they are successful, and only after they are accepted. If an applicant is not successful their credit card will NOT be billed. Payments can only be made by credit card.
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Thank you for the heads up!
To our knowledge, TAAFI itself has been around for a while with an animation industry focus, but the first Animation Arts Maarket (”artist alley” type area) took place in 2014 (June instead of April). I don’t believe there was one last year (someone please correct me if I’m wrong!), but now it appears to be back!
The table price does appear to be lower than in 2014 ($99 compared to $160); the first year it ran there had been some discussion amongst some exhibitors that the pricing seemed a bit high compared to the scale of the event, so it appears the organizers may have taken this feedback into consideration. It will be interesting to see how this year’s goes!
One thing to note, in the application process it also notes the following regarding refunds:
Refund Information
Orders placed before March 18, 2016 will be refunded 100% minus a $25 administrative fee. Orders placed March 19, 2016 to April 1, 2016 will be refunded 50% minus a $25 administrative fee. Orders placed after April 2, 2016 will not be refunded.
Hi, I'm Tim Lai! I'm a cartoonist living in Ontario, Canada. I like drawing cute and colourful things. This blog is a hub where you can find all of my Tumblr, DeviantArt, Flickr, Blogspot, and other posts in one place.
About My Work
I write and draw Lemon Inc., a comic about a seven-year-old who wants to be a business tycoon when he grows up. Until then, he runs a lemonade stand. You can read it at www.lemon-inc.com.
I have done some professional web and graphic design work, including designing the website for the webcomic, Just Joel. I'm also a member of the webcomic collective, Ink Bomb Comics.
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