Frank Chimero via brndnblog

aside from the fact that frank chimero ALWAYS says awesome things, this is particularly excellent. i share this sentiment. i think some of my recent unrest has been from a lack of art-making. i’ve been coding, crafting, organizing and drilling away… but i haven’t been saying much.

making things that impress people produces a great feeling, but it cannot be compared with the feeling of having a thing inside of you that has to get out. and you make this thing, you look at it and it makes you react. you have carved a completely thing-less thing out of things. then, you release this scary, modified piece of you into the world, and it touches another person.

hell, you may never know if it touched another person, or many. you will never know all who scribbled your thoughts into their notebook or saved your image to keep on their hard drive. or printed it out and taped it to the wall in the bedroom they will eventually move out of.

this is the root of me. i won’t lose my way.