{"id":67,"date":"2011-05-02T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/2011\/05\/02\/inspiring-art-centric-work-ethic-lynn-johnston-on-chiustream\/"},"modified":"2013-06-29T14:33:49","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T18:33:49","slug":"inspiring-art-centric-work-ethic-lynn-johnston-on-chiustream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/2011\/05\/02\/inspiring-art-centric-work-ethic-lynn-johnston-on-chiustream\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspiring Art-centric Work-Ethic! Lynn Johnston on Chiustream"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5GtsQ5H29NU\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #444444;\">Highlights<\/span>: &#8220;There&#8217;s no place on Earth that you&#8217;re not going to learn &#8211; if you get an art job&#8230;whether its doing window displays or whether you&#8217;re working for a packaging firm, or whether you&#8217;re doing sketches for the local library&#8217;s read-a-book weekend [hmm&#8230; : ) ] you just learn with every turn of your career, no matter what you do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It all comes down to hard work, there&#8217;s no other explanation for it&#8230;I went around the whole city of Hamilton with my baby on my back door-to-door talking with anybody who would give me a job&#8230;anybody. I went to libraries, I went to schools, I went to ad agencies, I went to art studios &#8212; anybody. Shops which sold art supplies, &#8220;Can you introduce me to somebody who will give me a job?&#8221; And every so often, somebody would give you some work and <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #444444;\">you get it to them on time, at a reasonable price, at less than they asked for &#8211; you&#8217;ll get another job<\/span>, and then you&#8217;ll get bigger jobs and bigger jobs, and by the time I was looking at the artwork that I am doing now &#8212; I was hiring other artists to do things for me, huge things&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think hard times are important but I also think that <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #444444;\">a solid work ethic is important<\/span> and to not instill that in your children is a crime &#8212; because they need that, because, without the ability to <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #444444;\">show up on time, be reliable, produce<\/span>, it doesn&#8217;t matter what you&#8217;re doing whether your selling furniture or driving a cab &#8212; you have to show up on time, you have to be reliable and produce.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I was in art school I used to think if I got doped up I would suddenly be link to extreme creativity and everything would just be so easy! And I would go into these places where everybody was stoned, and I would think, &#8220;But you&#8217;re not doing anything?? You&#8217;re all sitting on the floor stoned, blissing-out listening to Ravi Shankar music and doing and doing sweet bugger all &#8212; and so I didn&#8217;t get stoned, because I couldn&#8217;t produce.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lynn&#8217;s &#8220;For Better or for Worse&#8221; comic site:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fborfw.com\/\">http:\/\/www.fborfw.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highlights: &#8220;There&#8217;s no place on Earth that you&#8217;re not going to learn &#8211; if you get an art job&#8230;whether its doing window displays or whether you&#8217;re working for a packaging firm, or whether you&#8217;re doing sketches for the local library&#8217;s read-a-book weekend [hmm&#8230; : ) ] you just learn with every turn of your career, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dead-friends","category-studio"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/1021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}