3 People | Sources I Follow Closely

**We're shaped and fashioned by what we love.**
~― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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**Hello HIVERS! 👋**
Today let's talk about **3 People or Sources I Follow Closely.**
This topic made me remember a book I read and made some notes sometimes last year, by the author ***Austin Kleon*** titled [**Steal Like an Artist.**](https://www.amazon.com/Steal-Like-Artist-Things-Creative/dp/0761169253) Am sure some of you out there have checked it out, if not yet, I think it is worth the time. Anyway in the book he talks about a lot of cool points, quoting a myriad of different present and past thinkers, one piece of advice though resonates with today's **Blogging Challenge;**
**"Climb your own family tree"**

In these section ***Austin*** starts of with a quote from the 20th century French-American painter, **Marcel Duchamp;**
> "I don't believe in art, I believe in artists." **Marcel Duchamp**

I have the book somewhere but I cannot find it as I write this so I am going to be using the short notes that I had written in my Journal back when I was reading through the book.
- *"Chew one thinker - writer, artist, activist, role model - you really love* - *Study everything there is to know about that thinker, then find three people that thinker loved, and find out everything about them.* - *Repeat this as many times as you can.* - *Climb up the tree as far as you can go.* - *Once you build your tree, it's time to start your own branch."*
- *"Seeing yourself as part of a creative lineage will help you feel less alone as you start creating your own stuff.*

Of course he wrote other stuff too, but to me the above was what I say necessary to always remember. But unfortunately I just kinda forgot that I even had such wise words somewhere in my Journal, yeah definitely life happens but am glad this question made me go back and remind myself of what I had learned back then...

1. Peter McKinnon

**Photographer**

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Back in 2018, in the middle of being lost, and just trying to push to the next day, I accidentally came across this Canadian Photographer on a Video by the famous Tech Reviewer **MKBHD.** Here is the link to the **[video.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGiOZnUQlEU&ab_channel=MarquesBrownlee)** It is really just a normal video but for the first time in a very long time I felt like I had actually finally realized who I wanted to be, what I wanted to do with my life. I watched it around September, which is funny since I always saw it as a suggestion but I never really gave it much thought, until that day with my frustration of the algorithm always suggesting the video I just decided to get it over with. Somehow watching that video helped find a part of myself that am not sure I would have, my passion for creating stuff, my love for capturing emotion using a camera, my desire to be a creative. I had always struggled with that desire to create but before then I wasn't sure which medium to use, I had tried drawing but my mom discouraged me and somehow that never amounted to anything because of how everyone was always against it. But here I was, in Uni I had the freedom to be whoever the hell I wanted to be, and **Peter,** helped me realize that... I am Peter too so 😅...
Ever since then, I have watched most of his videos if not all, 🤦‍♂️ If you don't follow him please do, here are links to his website and YouTube Channel.
- **[YouTube](https://www.yout