Make More Art: An Unmistakable Signature

Defy the Limitations of Your Medium

Most artists have a canvas, a blank page, a camera, an instrument. But some artists defy the limitations of their medium.

• Walt Disney continually defied the limitations of his medium. He saw beyond the page, beyond two dimensions and into three. And beyond the screen and into the world.
• Caigo Shang used fireworks as his paintbrush and the sky as his canvas. Defy the limitations of a medium and you can build a ladder into the sky.

Just because something is in your zone of genius, that doesn’t mean it’s all your capable of. I’m in my zone of genius when I interview people. Writing is how I defied the limitations of my medium.

I’ve planned an event, been the executive producer of an animated series and did things that I was completely unqualified for.

Defy the limitations of a medium and you might end up defying your own. Or as Al Pacino more bluntly said to Chris O’Donnell in Scent of a Woman, “What are you, some kind of chickenshit who sticks to job description only?”

Draw a Line in the Sand

A couple of months ago, a guest pitched himself for the Unmistakable Creative. I said no. He mentioned the millions of page views on his…