119. JOHN GREEN: Make gifts for people
John Green (1977-) is an American author and video-blogger extraordinaire. He has written best-selling young adult novels including Looking For Alaska, Paper Towns and the recent The Fault in our Stars, which was named Time magazine’s best fiction book of 2012.
John and his brother, Hank, are the Vlogbrothers. They helped pioneer video blogging when they communicated only through YouTube videos for a year. They’ve since produced a wide variety of video series and have attracted a devoted army of fans known as the Nerdfighters.
I discovered John Green when a reader sent me the link to the awesome Crash Course World History series, which Green hosts and co-writes. The series tells the entire history of civilisation in over forty, very entertaining 10-minute videos. I was totally addicted to it and I highly recommend it. There have since been a Literature series and Green is currently updating a series on American History. For you science buffs, John’s brother Hank has done a biology, chemistry and ecology series. All the videos can be seen on the Crash Course YouTube channel.
This quote is taken from a 2009 Vlogbrothers video. Thanks to Kaley for submitting it 🙂
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– Green’s official website.
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Right on the money but if anyone knows how to get a balance. A way to earn while doing what you love please tell me. Please!!! I wont say more because I dont have much to say. Oh and I am the first comment maker.
I ment to add a !!!!!!!!!!!
If you are doing what you love then you ll eventually find a way to earn.
Step 1: Make stuff you like. Make it as great as you can. Love it as you do it.
Step 2: Show it to people. Whether in person, or on a website, be it a personal one or a general one (like Deviantart). Be happy when they love it. Work harder when they don’t love it so much.
Step 3: Give them the option to buy. But don’t shove it in their face.
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Learn what really gets you going, what gives you passion… you dont always need to make a gift, sometimes you are the gift you give the world. You have skills, love, passion, heart, and the ability to do and give it all to what you choose. Learn whom you are and then you will be happy, learn what you desire, what you value, what you cherish and move forward.
Sometimes we forget that we are more than a means to produce goods, that we are also the means to produce good! Be good to others, you may find what you need to be through that.
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A John Green quote! DFTBA! 🙂
This is beautiful, as always. And thanks a lot for the Steampunk theme!
Beautiful, touching story described in art.
I sorta just screamed out loud backstage at the school musical because you used a quote by my favourite author. This is absolutely fantastic. I love it so much!!!
Yo!!!! I’m a Nerdfighter! Nobody knows how happy I am to see a John Green quote on here. I greatly admire this man. (And in reference to a previous post, John Green is a Christian, believes in Heaven, and remains an insightful and amazing writer – just driving that point home).
As a fan of John Green books and videos, I love this. I also love how this is a quotation by John Green that isn’t necessarily as tossed around like his other quotes, like the ‘nerd’ quote or something from his books. I’ve never heard this quote by him before, and when I reached the end and saw who it was by, I squealed a little. Great job! 🙂
Wow. Love the strip. Thought this one really nailed the spirit of the quote. Thanks so much!
This has to be the best advice anyone could ever give. And you have done justice to the words. Thank you !
YES! A John Green quote finally! Thank you so much for this, Gavin. He will be delighted to see your awesome interpretation of his quote. . Thank you for this gift.
This is awesome! (So you remembered to be awesome ^_~) It’s quite odd, though, because I was only introduced to John Green’s work about four days ago when a friend sent me The Fault in Our Stars and I read it in all of two days. Since then, I have seen Nerdfighters on an Adam Hills program, started watching the vlogbrothers, and now this!! Divine hints? Who knows, but this is some awesome stuff!
Thanks for doing what you do 🙂
This took my breath away left me speechless. Brilliantly done. Simplicity at its best.
Great, so true. ????, ???? ????
I appreciate the iron man mask 😀
This is so amazing n beautiful!!!!! Thanks a lott for this…
Hey Gavin, thanks so much for this. You done justice to the quote.
I’ve been working together with friends this past 3 years building anti-corruption community, and at times we felt like we do is nothing. Thank you for the reminder that ultimately it’s about the gift itself, not the people.
Sometimes in life you come across something that you believe truly holds meaning for you. That literally encompasses and answers your every doubt about yourself.
This was the first strip I ever came across on ZP. That was ages ago and since then I have been an ardent fan of your work Gav. It literally has healed many a wounds and continues to inspire.
But this strip holds more meaning to me than any other.
And I cant thank you enough.
Intriquing i found the artwork to be outstanding, despite i know so little about the famous person.
Overall, please continue what you are doing, you’re doing an excellant job:D
Only YOU could make John Green awesomeness even better.
As always, your artwork delights 🙂
One of my favorites! Really well made comic strip. Thanks!! You’re doing an amazing job!
i used to do that bro, i really am, i just do what they told me, and i made it for free, and you know what? they keep asking revision and revision and revision, well…i don’t know…it’s really frustrating.
Great artwork, btw…
You’re missing the point. The idea is not to do what others tell us to do. It’s to do WHAT YOU WANT TO DO not because of money or fame but because you know that the result would be a positive thing for the human kind.
Wow… that was fantastic. Definitely a quote to live by.
Hello.
I am writing from Spain.
A wonderful piece of comic art.
Have a nice day and thank you for the gift.
Hola.
Te escribo desde España.
Que tengas buen día y gracias por el obsequio.
Wow! Zen Pencils is getting better and better. I’m now inspired to read John Green’s work.
This web site is really amazing!
I like it so much!
Truely hope you guys keep making good product.
I really liked the look of this strip and what I think were fun little easter eggs. This one looked really cool and was a lot of fun.
Somebody tweeted the link to this today and it’s so appropriate to my own situation.
I linked to this on my blog, you can read the post here: http://exiledstardust.wordpress.com/2013/06/11/dont-go-back-to-oikville-and-waste-another-year-2/
You are seriously like the Ryan Gosling of drawing
Will this be available as a print on Society 6 or DFTBA.com?
As usual, lovely depiction, Gav!
A slight error in the text beneath though- ‘extraordinaire’ misspelt! Sorry, but couldn’t help noticing!
Got it, thanks 🙂
This is the most beautiful quote I’ve ever seen. Thanks for this drawn gift Gavin.
This comic reminds me of Howard Hughes and the Spruce Goose.
Loved it 🙂 Awesome it is 🙂
Thanks for the comments. Guess what? John Green noticed the gift I made for him and loved it! He tweeted it and even called me ‘extraordinary’:
http://maxcdn.zenpencils.com/wp-content/uploads/johngreentweet.jpg
HOW COOL IS THAT?!
I hope to make this available as a print but I will need to get John’s permission first.
Just want to say, every time I come across your comic, it puts a smile on my face
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thankyou for this i really needed it, losing faith in myself but you brought up again. too little words can express my gratitude.
Would love to have this as a print. Beautiful comic. Very impressed!
Awesome work Gavin. Just what I needed right now. I’m getting into the field of documentary film. In a way it’s very tough and competitive, but I shouldn’t lose sight of the most beautiful and satisfying part of it: to make a story that adds some beauty to the world we live in.
Thanks for making this awesome piece of work. I don’t know John Green, but I might just take a look at his work. Keep it up!
Haha, I love the Iron Man mask in the 7th panel! Gavin, you little nerd 🙂
I agree with this posting!
As usual, completely awesome. One day, I’ll buy loads of comic posters, I promise!
This is the moral behind the movie The Social Network (2010), among other great pieces of work.
You were featured in Hank and John’s newsletter and I am so glad I clicked on this link! I love love love this.
Brilliant.
This is wonderfully done!
“Find something you like doing so much that you’d do it for free, and then find someone who likes it so much that they’ll pay you to do it.”
That was on a sign in my doctor’s office …. sounds like good advice.
A spruce goose maybe? Not sure the gift relevance…but my last gift came from http://www.tiecoon.com/giftties
officially my favourite one!
Great! Awesome! My congratulations!
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I just want to say, thank you for doing this, making this quote a poster. I myself am a nerdfighter, but I have never encountered this quote before, but it really means a lot to me because it reminds me of my own experiences. Thanks again for introducing me to further wisdom from a great man!
Good stuff…
Make gifts for people. Aka “Give up on your life for love and be happy eating pressed cheese sandwiches you pointless loser.”
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Love your graphics and your message. You need to be happy with what you’re making. If others like it, that’s just icing on the cake.
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Fine–but don’t go demanding your “fair share” of the fruits of someone else’s talents and drive, if your rainbow-climbing leaves you impoverished in the end.
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I Can’t write the commet for this such an inspiring quote with pic. , recently It is confusing for me to find what is meaning for work , now I’m trying to contribute a gift for the gift itself …
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JOHN GREEN! I really enjoyed his Crash Course segments, but I never realized he and Hank pioneered video blogging. Awesome!
wow, so beautiful and inspiring!
This is very inspiring. I love the comics. And yes, we are responsible for our creations.
WOW !!! Amazing….how true every word is. Expect more and get hurt more. So, never expect and just do for the joy of doing only. We all should enjoy doing but truth is we expect also that brings sorrow. Never mind, we learn too….
hmm…The sad story
that is not all in this this there something else 🙂
Gav, this one is amazing! I am not sure which made the most effect- the message or the illustration. They compliment each other so well! Keep it up man!!
I sorta just screamed out loud backstage at the school musical because you used a quote by my favourite author. This is absolutely fantastic. I love it so much!!!
Worki hard and you will get money. But if you think in money from the beginnig you will get nothing.
Or. If a job is worth doing it is worth doing well.
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Love it! Wonderful story and brilliant strip too… Keep it up Gavin!
Sometimes in life you come across something that you believe truly holds meaning for you. That literally encompasses and answers your every doubt about yourself.
This was the first strip I ever came across on ZP. That was ages ago and since then I have been an ardent fan of your work Gav. It literally has healed many a wounds and continues to inspire.
But this strip holds more meaning to me than any other.
And I cant thank you enough.
Is there any chance this could be a wallpaper or facebook profile pic?
To be honest I’d never heard of John Green, but this one is my absolute favourite, and I’d love to be reminded of it whenever I’m making gifts for people.
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I made this tshirt for a girl that I was madly in love with.. I worked for like a week on that tshirt design. Used all of my photoshop skills to make as cute and perfect as possible…
I gave it to her for her birthday… She says…..
“Nobody has ever done anything like this for me……. you really love me this much?!”
She was single when I gave her the gift. We talked a lot after this, but she never said anything about a relationship….
And two months later, she was happily enjoying life with her new boyfriend….
Well, at least I learnt several new photoshop tricks because of the gift…. 🙂
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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you
Send your little child to bed happy. Whatever cares press, give it a warm good-night kiss as it goes to its pillow. The memory of this in the stormy years which fate may have in store for the little one will be like Bethlehem’s star to the bewildered shepherds. — “My father — my mother loved me!” Fate cannot take away that blessed heart-balm. Lips parched with the world’s fever will become dewy again at this thrill of youthful memories. Kiss your little child before it goes to sleep.
Stunning piece of art! not everybody does think of others, very few people care for someone but themselves, and there you go, something like this will motivate people to keep doing good and also we should credit people who do good
Gifting is the secret to someone’s heart! Gift and change someones life
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