A harsh rant. Don’t “should” me sonny Jim.
You know what irks me?
When someone does something worthwhile, and others are moved to go up to them and say “I should do <insert whatever that person knows they should be doing but aren’t…>”
What in the hell are they waiting for?! A sign from the Gods?
If you want to do it, then do it.
Take some damned responsibility, use some initiative and go do something concrete to make it happen…or bury it because no one wants to hear about what you “should” be doing any more than they want to hear about your anal warts.
Harsh I know, but sometimes so is the truth.
Dazman.
Dreams and Suicide
It is almost 11pm on a Thursday.
It is another cold Melbourne night and I sit here again in my warm little home studio at my keyboard compelled to write while the tree outside my window plays tag with the wind.
I wanted to write now while my emotions are still fresh.
I have spent the last two hours relaxing from my hectic work schedule, watching a relatively old film — Dead Poet’s Society, which I have been told many times is fantastic, but never got around to viewing until tonight.
Unabashedly speaking, I cried while watching it.
Why you need to become more than just a creative.
I tend to think a lack of business skills on the part of creatives, devalues the entire industry more than any other factor.
Because creatives have no idea how to charge, no idea how to establish their worth in the minds of clients and thus no commercial back bone, we collectively suffer as an industry.
Here is a lament I often hear from other creative types:
“Clients are so dumb! They completely undervalue my work!”
Wrong chump.
Some new sketches =)
I did a couple of sketches today, one was for a student, the other just to record the process and practice some tonal work.
Enjoy!
Here is the YouTube video of the last one:
