A Chance to Fail

[blueerica]

I wanted to mention this earlier, but I was at the tail end of my workday, and figured I could wait until I got home. So I'm home.

The other afternoon, I was listening to KCRW, and on All Things Considered, I heard about this show in New York City, called "The Rejection Show." My internet is being spotty tonight, and I can't seem to get it to work hard enough to load anything from google (even this page hasn't fully loaded)

Anyhow, this thing is called the Rejection Show (maybe someone else can find it and link about it), and it allows artists the chance to show their rejected works. Unused scripts, unpublished drawings for newspapers and magazines. Rejected.

They are shown as works of art that have already failed. People go there knowing they're viewing loser works. And, in a turn of events, some even get picked up by people seeing the show.

One artist, and if I could bring up the damn page, I'd tell you his name, anyhow...

He's a well-known cartoonist, and his work is published by the New Yorker, and a number of other places, and he says that to the New Yorker, each week, he submits 10 cartoons. He feels lucky to have just 1 of those ten chosen. He's been regularly featured for 17 years. So, add that up: 17 x 52 x 9 = 7956 rejections. And I'm sure that artist had more (damn internet.. I'm gonna try looking it up again to see if it works.. Hell,, I'll be lucky if this thing posts).

So in other words: Expect rejection. Move on, and become great...

(OK I'm gonna copy & paste this mofo -- here goes nothing for posting!)