Austin Kleon talks about how there are two types of people which are the vampires and the human spam. The vampires are those that drain us of our energy and take advantage of it. The human spam are the people that you listen to but they don't listen to you - they think they need to promote themselves endlessly without thinking about others.
Having watched Austin Kleon's presentation at SXSW, it has helped me realise that I should show my work not just to self promote myself, but so it may inspire others in their own design practise and create a community that like similar things as myself. He talks about how 'Scenius' is a network created by a group of individuals that make up a talent from copying, stealing and adapting the design of geniuses (which he describes as the original designers of a unique design) to form an existing new design. However, he also says that Scenius' are not a bad thing, but there is not one with real originality but instead, designs are really created by collaboration of different artists but is still as creative as geniuses. He says that people should give credit to designers work because it attracts attention to people who have the similar likes as you or even the artist themselves, and then you may become a part of a Scenius. This will get you to where you need to go by showing inspiration and giving credit to others.
