It's been a long while since I've been as inspired by a portfolio as this guy named Chris Erickson. He's an all-in-one art director, well-accompliced animator, brand & packaging specialist, typeface-maker and environmental designer. How'd you like to have one of those on your team?
i rearranged my room last night around 11pm. it all started with just vacuuming b/c the floor needed to be vacuumed. and then i decided i would try to put my bed in a different place & move some other furniture around. i now have a lot of floor place. we'll see if that's actually needed. maybe i should get an area rug.
i think my room feels more like a place i can retire to. maybe that's just b/c all of my laundry is done, the furniture is now dusted and whatever else goes with cleaning.
Well if you would shine your love down here
oh Make our hearts as perfect as new
Oh if you would shine your love down here oh
I promise I'd reflect right back at you
Oh I promise I'd reflect it right back at you
Oh I promise we'll reflect it right back at you
Your attention please.
We live in a social marketplace, where everyone begs to be noticed. I'm not sure if I'll ever understand it, but I know that I participate as a member of that place. Everyone wants to be congratulated, thanked, applauded, rewarded or remembered for something.
And it all makes pretty good sense; there's something very deep inside us that marks us as lovers of something. Lovers of people, lovers of money, whatever it be. All I know is that as children grow up, the boys who are affirmed by their fathers tend to be the ones that grow up to be dependably faithful men. The daughters with good fathers are the ones who usually find themselves well-affirmed and content with self appearance. But who am I?
I'm no expert: my overgeneralizations may be way off-key. But all in all, I would say that most everyone starves for someone's attention. At the end of the day, we each long to be noticed, admired, remembered, applauded.
So remember that. And give someone your listening ears today.
i'm re-skinning an internal website for work and listening to old school coldplay. not bad. i kind of enjoy it.
originally posted on Tuesday, February 06, 2007....
i'm going to the nyc for the fourth of july this year.
work is good. people are leaving. that's not good @ all. in fact, two guys are leaving in the next week or so. this is a great company, but the web world moves fast & people jockey for better companies, salaries and benefits all the time. i feel like i'm called to devotion with these guys.
i'm trying to get rails up & running on the mac os x. i'm finding that i need developer tools and that there always seems to be another hoop to jump through. but that's why it's not easy to be a developer. that's why they get paid the big bucks. (author's note: i do not get paid the big bucks.)
