{"id":3500,"date":"2010-02-19T04:50:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T09:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=3500"},"modified":"2010-02-19T04:50:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T09:50:39","slug":"repost-drive-safely-and-dont-abuse-alcohol-drugs-or-candy-letters-of-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/19\/repost-drive-safely-and-dont-abuse-alcohol-drugs-or-candy-letters-of-note\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost:: Drive safely and don't abuse alcohol, drugs or candy :: Letters of Note"},"content":{"rendered":"

This illustrates how small nudges can have large effects on who we are.\u00a0 This was very inspiring.<\/h3>\n
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Drive safely and don’t abuse alcohol, drugs or candy<\/a><\/h3>\n
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When asked by his teacher to write to a contemporary artist as part of a school project in 1997, 13-year-old Green Day<\/a> fan Austin Kleon<\/a> immediately opted to contact collage artist Winston Smith<\/a> – the man responsible for creating the artwork<\/a> for the band’s 1995 album, Insomniac<\/a> – and after finding his address via a gallery curator, Austin sent his letter to the artist and hoped for the best. A few months later when nearly all hope was lost, the stunning 14-page reply seen below, along with pages and pages of artwork, arrived at the teenager’s home. He was ecstatic:
\nI couldn\u2019t believe it. An artist\u2014a real artist!\u2014had written me back!
\nTo me, it was the equivalent of Rilke writing back to the young poet. He told me about his life and his methods. He urged me to always question authority, stay away from drugs, and keep getting straight As so one day I could pay the bills. (An artist\u2014a real artist!\u2014was telling me it was okay to get straight As!) I\u2019d never heard anybody talk about the kind of things he wrote about\u2014art, America, growing up in a small-town\u2014it was like a time-bomb that went off in my brain.
\nThe letter, and I\u2019m not exaggerating, changed my life.via Letters of Note: Drive safely and don’t abuse alcohol, drugs or candy<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This illustrates how small nudges can have large effects on who we are.\u00a0 This was very inspiring. Drive safely and don’t abuse alcohol, drugs or candy When asked by his teacher to write to a contemporary artist as part of a school project in 1997, 13-year-old Green Day fan Austin Kleon immediately opted to contact … <\/p>\n

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