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You are dedicated to your craft. You have spent countless hours honing your skills. You have a boundless curiosity for the underlying theories and structure of communicating ideas. You are the artist who finds the connections between your medium and other communications media. You are the artist who relishes in a setback; after all, it's a new opportunity to learn and grow. Inspiration is more than a haphazard mode of thought requiring constant nurturing: it is your natural state of mind.

Lean Into Art is where you go when you're ready to push yourself as an artist in new ways. As a place to learn communication arts online it combines an art-journaling approach, the best of live and time-shifted classes, and a recognition system that encourages students to finish projects, give feedback, even participate in teaching.

It's a big art challenge - that's why we put the enticing warning in the name. You have to lean into it.

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Thursday
Sep222011

LIA Cast 05 - Polls

We start out this episode with some talk on the recent announcement about Google Plus Hangouts and the implications it has for cartoonists and educators.

 

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Then we dive into a talk about surveys, polls, and self-reflection. How are they useful from a content creation/conversation facilitation standpoint? Can we map the thinking strategies behind polls and surveys to better center ourselves as creative people? Does a better understanding of how people choose make us more intentional storytellers?

Rob and Jerzy walk around this topic and do their best to leave with a better understanding.

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LIA Cast 05 - Polls

Wednesday
Sep072011

LIA Cast 04 - Starting is Hard!

 

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This time Rob and Jerzy wander around the topic of starting a project. Capturing ideas, developing them, and staying open to the surprises that can lead to more complex story engines.

 

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LIA Cast 04 - Starting is Hard!

Tuesday
Aug302011

LIA Cast 03 - My Daily Burden

This time we talk about that critical moment in our lives when we discovered that we genuinely loved to learn, which spirals out into some talk on our favorite and least favorite educational experiences.

We than spend some time talking about the value of community art challenges, and ruminate a bit on what kinds of challenges we might launch within the Lean Into Art community.

We close with a little news on what's happening on the Lean Into Art website as we gear up for 30 Classes in 30 Days. Have you signed up yet? It's going to be fun.

Links mentioned in this episode:

- Lawrence Lessig talks
- Atari 400/800
- Gameification
- Carsten Bradley and his Google+ art challenges
- Comics Are Great! Episode 23
- Matt Madden
- The Comics Sestina
- Krishna Sadasivam
- Brandon Dayton
- Jonathan Rector
- Scribbles with Jonathan
- Kate Shields Stenzinger
- Nepotism

 

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LIA Cast 03 - My Daily Burden

Wednesday
Aug172011

LIA Cast 02 - Feelings Count, Too

This time on the Lean Into Art cast Rob and Jerzy discuss creating from an emotional or non-analytical place. Regardless of how analytical we think we are, we all operate from that primal part of the brain sometimes. We then highlight some of the features of Lean Into Art's first event, 30 Classes in 30 Days, which will launch in November of 2011.

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LIA Cast 02 - Feelings Count, Too

Saturday
Aug132011

LIA Cast 01 - Good Teachers are Good Students

Jerzy and Rob kick off the new Lean Into Art project with a preview of how the service will work, followed by some thoughts on their shared philosophy on how the best teachers have a zeal for continued learning.

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LIA Cast 01 - Good Teachers are Good Students

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