April 2012
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Met Illustrator Scott Campbell at Comicon today. Re-inspired to keep illustrating. These moments are good.
There’s a distinct possibility that the life I’m living now is my warped version of having given up. This needs some serious examination.
March 2012
39 posts
In Response To A Friend Losing In A Ping-Pong...
Me: IM UPSET
Me: WHY DID HE LOSE
Me: I WANT TO CRY
Jimmy: haha
Me: ITS LIKE IF IVAN DRAGO KILLED ROCKY TOO
Me: THE WORLD WOULD END
Jimmy: hahahah
Jimmy: exactly
Me: ITS LIKE OPTIMUS PRIME DYING
Role Model
Jen: I may have told them about how you had to skip school to eat ramen
Jen: That's just too funny not to tell
Me: HAHA its ok I'm not ashamed of it
Me: I've skipped classes for Ramen and Winning 11
Me: Obviously, it didn't derail my future career
Me: As here I am despite the skipped classes
Me: I'm a walking morality tale
Me: FOR FOLLOWING YOUR HEART
Jen: HAHAHAHAHAHA
Jen: omg
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The design-existential torment continues.
I have no style. Or, I set it on the back shelf a handful of years ago, and I forgot where the shelf is.
This is getting tricky.
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The Worst Complaint, Ever.
Being a “creative” is a difficult journey for the insides.
The creation process takes me through an insane range of emotions, on any given day, on any given endeavor- whether client work, team projects, self-initiated exercises, the investment of having to “create” is a substantially heavy endeavor.
There are times when I feel grateful for the way I think; then, there...
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“There are two kinds of light — the glow that illumines, and the glare that...”
– James Thurber, American Cartoonist for The New Yorker
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That weird moment when you burp out loud from a gulpful of soda, then you realize your headphones made you forget you’re still at your office, full of your colleagues.
I’m an adult.
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I’m finding that my defense mechanism when faced with an overwhelming volume of stress is to check out and zone off into my land of dreams.
Great for creativity; not so much for actually getting things done.
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“People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a...”
– Banksy
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Like An Unapologetic Punch To Your Face
I don’t understand why we stay at jobs we hate. Dude, if you’re miserable, it’s because you feel like you deserve better, so go fucking find another job. I was one of those people: I hated my previous job, and I shouldn’t have stayed for so fricking long. My misery only served to poison the environment, and I regret it. I wish I had the balls to know what I’m capable...
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Vision & Mission, Draft 1.
Vision // Why I’m In The Design Game
To start, an unrefined list of what I like, as it pertains to what has led me to design:
Thinking
The way things are connected
Talking about things, and the ways they’re connected
Philosophy
Stories, or Fragments of stories, or Moments, or Vignettes
Movement
The movement in drawing
Drawing
The movement in words
Words
Writing words
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Trigger Finger, Itchy Dreams
Design Identity Crisis. I don’t know what I do, nor why I do it. What the f*** is happening.
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