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.
Saturday, July 27, 2013 at 9:35AM Rob and Jerzy discuss sitting versus standing at the desk and the cumulative affect of experimenting with ways to be a little more active throughout the day. Also: how that thinking leads to gathering other tweaks and improvements to your gear.
Saturday, July 13, 2013 at 6:23PM Jerzy and Rob start this episode with a conversation about working in situations where skills are appreciated over roles. Then we close with the topic of intellectual bullying and wonder if or how "using the force" is a form of intellectual bullying.
Thursday, June 27, 2013 at 6:35PM In this Extra Lean Jerzy is fired-up and shares an annecdote with Rob about how a coffee shop conversation about classic cartoons leads to awkwardness. The kind of awkwardness where one earnest stranger loves the subject matter and when another is more interested in making fun. Tastes vary, yet two people with differing tastes have the option to find a way to connect via understanding one another's earnestness.
That description may be too mellow so I'll mention again: JERZY IS FIRED UP!
Thursday, June 6, 2013 at 9:01PM In this episode of Extra Lean, Jerzy and Rob discuss tracking your sleep, lack of sleep, and how tracking different activities can lead to a new perspective on what you do whether that's sleep or art desk related.
Sunday, May 19, 2013 at 10:45PM In this episode of Extra Lean, Jerzy shares a rebuttle and expansion with Rob about the recent Lean Into Art Cast "Everyone Doubts". Along the way we touch on how anyone can feel like an outsider, some take-aways form Jerzy's trip to TCAF.
Along the way, Jerzy shares a highly quotable observation as a strategy about where to begin facing the outsiderness once you've made something to share: "Put it in a place where people can find it".
