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Magical Nihilism Get Excited And Make Things!
It’s fair to say this post is a little behind-the-times, but I finally want to get round to recording the story behind my “Get Excited & Make Things” image – and also releasing the files, which was always my intention…
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The Point Of Getting Excited
Warren Ellis — ... Matt Jones on his generation of the GET EXCITED AND MAKE THINGS graphic: the point of it, its brief history, and its new Creative Commons license. All of which just gives me an excuse to post it again: ...

Get Excited and Make Things!
WWdN: In Exile — ... My friend Ariana works with Warren Ellis to make all kinds of really cool things. Lately, they've been experimenting with print on demand technology to take creative risks that simple economics would have rendered impossible as recently as five years ago. For example, three weeks ago, they started putting out a T-shirt of the Week at CafePress. It's a great idea: they put up a design on Sunday, it's available for a week, and then it goes off to the land of wind and ghosts to make room for something new. If you like the design, ...

ten quick things, including some math, a comic, and a few ideas
WWdN: In Exile — ... X. Looking for something to do this weekend? GET EXCITED AND MAKE THINGS! There's a ton of inspiration from your fellow creators in the comments on ...

Giving It Away
Ecstatic Days — ... I made $15 in donations from those Cessna flight-manual poems. That’s $3/poem and, honestly, more than I expected to make. As I said at the time, it means that I was able to pay for a couple of beers using poems I wrote. That ain’t nothing. Truth be told, that was kind of a fun feeling. But the money isn’t quite the point. The point is to be putting work in front of people, in lots of various forms. The point is to get excited and make things. (See also Wil Wheaton’s recent post, “ ...

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