Hugh Macleod spent hours each work day on the Chicago El train commuting to and from work. He also spent lots of time in bars. And in New York. And at work.
These are the 3.5" x 2" canvases recording his journey
Macleod's barbed insights into life, love and the pursuit of artistic happiness are captured in singleframe cartoons on the back of business cards.
The 30-point manifesto, How to Be Creative (html or pdf) may resonate with you creative commuters out there, slinging your creativity in the Wild West of corporate culture.
Visit gapingvoid.com for more acerbic servings of life in the Real World.
(Thanks to Nellie Bass Durand for the post.)
Blogger / artist / advertising text writer Hugh Macleod shows Andrew Anker what must be the World's smallest art gallery: a collection of Hugh's business card doodles.
From gapingvoid.com:
Around midnight at the bar I bump into an old acquaintance of mine from Chicago, Mark Mann. He had moved to New York about 3 months previously to do something with his film career. He is one of the funniest and most interesting people I know, but at the time I didn't know that. We were quite suspicious of each other for the longest time before we admitted that we actually were friends.
I hadn't told anybody I was moving to New York except on a need-to-know basis, so he was quite surprised to see me there. A ghost from his former Chicago life- just popped out of nowhere.
Told him my story. Told him about being laid off in Chicago. Told him about this new job I got in New York. Told him I only knew I got the job officially 5 days before Christmas- only about a week previously. Asked him how he was liking New York.
"It's great," he said. "Everybody's insane with loneliness, but that's OK. After a while you realize that's part of the edge."
I was hit with a paradox. I wanted to be in New York, I wanted to be "part of the edge", but I didn't want to be "insane with loneliness". Was one necessary in order to have the other? Was it a price worth paying? To this day, I still have no answer.
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