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Disappointments are unavoidable in life. Better to prepare for it.
The first step of the professional disappointment ladder is classic, impersonal: like a negative response to a grant application.
The second disappointment degree is more intense as you suspect (rightly or wrongly) dishonesty or malice under the final choice.
The third degree is when your proposal is refused by people or artists you know and respect, and who also know you. That hurts!
The fourth level is when you learn through the media that the super-high-profile project organized by colleagues who never returned your calls /emails, will go forward … without you. Here, the long silence prepares the final shock.
The 4th degree, as described, has happened early in my budding career. Its impact was devastating. Doubt entered my life as an artist. I never found the same confidence in my art, my abilities since then. I became invisible in my peers’ eye.
It took decades and a new generation of artists/creators to get rid of my impostor syndrome. Drawing this comic, baring my soul was most difficult.
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My suggestions to manage your professional disappointment:
DO NOT respond or react before 24 hours have passed.
DO NOT name the organisation or express anger in public, nor share your bad experience and victim status on socia media. Accusing the agency of discrimination adds new problems: those feelling targeted will deny it anyway (not to mention the high trollin potential as soon as you mention the thing). And if the choice has been fair and perfectly innocent, you harm the organisation.
DO: all romping in private that feels good. Physical exercise, running, gardening, climbing up the curtains … help to evacuate the excess of energy. Afterwards, relax, read a good novel, savor chocolate or ice cream.
AND : work on the next project!
I found a constructive way to manage my disappointment this week: scripting this comic. The next day, instead of moping, I wrote two new complete science fiction short-stories (quite short). One was written in 20 minutes, edited, then sent as a submission in the next half hour.
Opening myself for a potential disappointment…
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Tagged art, artist, Comics, disappointment, discrimination, project selection, Webcomic
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This is what usually happens to my inspiration when I take too long getting ready…
But don’t let this stop you from creating!
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Tagged art, Comics, creationism, humor, Mental cage, prejudice, stories, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Webcomic
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Dive in, my fearless fans!
(But in real life, always check the water depth before!)
To learn more about the 2015 Leap Second:
The International Earth Rotation Service and Reference Systems and the Paris observatory! Yes, it does have a nice SF-ish ring to its name!
The Leap Second home page.
More about Universal and coordinated universal time. International second
And for the “bug”, the network time protocol for clock synchronization between computer systems.
And to look up the time anywhere, (one of the atomic time websites!) and to look up in Eastern Time.
Happy July!
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Tagged 2015 leap second, art, Comics, international atomic time, International Earth Rotation Service, June 30th, sciences, universal time
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Meddling with physics is still big fun for a SF writer!
Thanks to my hyperboles suppliers Pascal Colpron (eternity), Robin Dumont (hair) and André Lavoie (minus a thousand). The ET visitor comes from a Le Bob original creation.
Matter falling in a black hole get heated up, so much that it emits a stream of X rays. In the panel with the car in space, a Cygnus X1 like binary system is illustrated, a star with a companion black hole.
The mean universe temperature is about 3 Kelvin. The fossil microwave picture is a courtesy of NASA.
The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking was an inspiration for the universe 4-dimensional models. The Hawking radiation is the name given to a black body radiation when a black hole evaporates.
As for the Big Crunch, well, there’s still some time before, if it happens!
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Tagged artist, Comics, humor, Hyperboles, Physics, Stephen Hawking, Universe, Webcomics
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The relation between our recent cold weather spells and global warming involves complex phenomena, the Gulf Stream current among them. For the more eager :
To better understand our irrealists expectations regarding science, conditioned by our “I-want-it-now!” culture: The Problem with Science: from Action Movies to the Real World!
For a innovative use of our fossil resources to mitigate the climate change, see une solution au casse-tête arctique.
To read about the projected effects of a Shutdown of thermohaline circulation, and here is a map of the thermohaline circulation.
For a more higher level paper, about the Gulf Stream, see this abstract of a paper published in 2015 by Jaime B. Palter, from the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences of McGill University: The Role of the Gulf Stream in European Climate (Annual Review of Marine Science Vol. 7: 113-137)
The real demonstration will be given by the planet, as soon as the last ice and land glaciers will have melted.
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Tagged Arctic ice, climate, Climate change, Comics, Environment, global warming, Gulf Stream, humor, sciences, Shutdown of thermohaline circulation
In mathematics, an hyperbole is a curve obtained by cutting a plan trhough a double cone. In day-to-day life, an hyperbole is a wildly exaggerated statement.
And yes, this majestic wave stems from an ancient (around 1830) japanese woodblock print !
Echoes of a Sunday artist 