Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Digital Born, Digital Whore

I saw this today on Zieds blog, and have been talking to a friend recently about some of these concepts for some time. Now, I am not sure if I am considered "digital born" or not. I would be inclided to say that I am not, maybe just outside the realm. But I think those close to my age are definatly a part of this new phenomena whether or not we were born into it. We did see it grow up, as we did. Which I think is an important place to be. Being at a place in my education when I have to decide which avenue to take in my career, advertising though it sounds like a lot fun has always seemed like a dirty job. But, when I consider the possibilities that new media is offering, and the excitment of mobile communication it seems less so. As if it is taking a road to being less an interuption, and more intergration into what I want and need. Mostly its just a great video, and there are many things to consider. So thanks Richard for the post.

Friday, May 25, 2007

Some pictures from New York














These are some of the pictures from the trip, i believe they are from tammy's camera. I plan on putting some more up in a little while. And I will also be putting up the blogs to go with the pictures. KK gotta get going.

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

OH

I have blogs to post from my trip to new york. But we didn't have internet in the hotel. I'll get em up with pictures soon.

SMASH! CRASH! AWESOME?


It is almost 2:00am. I have to get up and drive to class tomorrow at 6:00am, and I am not upset about that. I've been recently working on a re-branding project, and needless to say it almost got my goat. Or at least, that's what I had thought.

As a young designer not only am I inexperienced with the practices of the modern workplace, the hustle and bustle of deadlines, or the complexities of client vendor relations, but most importantly I am really inexperienced with my own process. Real process, not that Velveeta stuff. It's all of the latter that give the process it's pressure. I'm not sure if that can truly be experienced during our undergraduate work. It's not that its fluff, its just that its different. For instance I was considering getting on a plane to Ecuador and changing my name to Boris Von Dooshenbag if i didn't get this figured out by this Saturday. I've never done that for a project in class, no matter how much I cared about the project or the professor. As they said in the hood, "this ain't baseball."

The point I'm trying to make is, when people tell you that you get ideas somewhere between sleeping and waking it's true. I had heard that, even believed that. But I didn't know it. So, as I worried about concepts until my r.e.m. cycle finally took me out of my misery and let me concept in peace I got it. Now, this is not something I think you can rely on. Perhaps working myself until the point of where exhaustion meets oblivion, magic happens. I don't know. But, I'm happy it did because I was getting so fucking frustrated. And now, I am just to excited to sleep.
I think I made the right choice following my Design affair and leaving English behind. No matter how much I love literature, I don't ever remember waking up in the middle of the night saying, "Jesus Christ, get me some Keats! I just had a vision of a nightingale."

Farewell. :P