This is not an ad. It's a gift. I'm going to be at the Icon illustration conference this year in July doing a handful of different things.

And I asked them if they could give me a discount for the listeners of the show because I would love to see you there and hang out at the after parties and whatnot.

And they let me have a $100 discount to share with you, which is just so generous and so awesome.

If you're an illustrator, I highly recommend going to ICON.

It's been a magical experience, the times that I've gone, even the first time in 2014

that I went.

It was a very scary leap, but so worth it.

Go to icon.

com to learn more.

The discount is automatically applied to that link. icon.com. Hope to learn more. The discount is automatically applied to that link. Icon.com.com.

Hope to see you there. Do you have a sense that you've got some genius? You just don't know where

it's hiding. Maybe you feel like your work just feels like everything everyone else is

doing or you just can't seem to break through or find that kind of sweet spot. This episode is a

deep dive into the where, where is it hiding, into the sweet spot, the actual spot, which is your local scene. This is an unexpected,

often overlooked, but essential part of creative practice is how do you soak up where you are

and how do you let it influence your work and how do you get connected to people in your

local geographic area so that you can utilize like the uniqueness of your experience.

Right now so much stuff on the internet is just looking the same because most of our are spending our time on the internet,

consuming on the internet, creating for the internet, and it's all becoming very similar.

And so today on the show, I have Hanif Abderaqib, who is a legend of a culture critic and

writer.

And he happens to just live in Columbus,

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