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Friday, July 18, 2008
BrokeBack indeed.
My poor back has broken! Finally done with web design. Odd to say that my ability to sell has saved me from flunking this subject. Well, i guess in this case, saved by the "mouth" is a rather appropriate term. Nevertheless, this is something I have to say now. I had no interest whatsoever in what I did. Seri Malaysia might not have been as bad as doing some water filter but still, I had zero interest in it. Being me, the thick-headed bastard that I am, I never ever excel in what I dislike. I can crawl my way through but I will not excel in it. What can I say? I'm a person driven by passion. Life means nothing with no passion. If I really had a choice (which we don't in real life), I would rather revamp Guinness/Epiphone/Gallery Petronas website. It's something I believe in, Art, music and of course, Stout!! I lurve zee' Stout! God I can't remember the last time I had a nice, cold pint of Guinness in good ol' fashion British pub.
I am excited about one thing. Desig[nerd]s. I see potential in it. We had our first meeting earlier, although I was mostly working at the time on Audition CS3, I heard what they were discussing about. Frankly, I think it's too in the box. I mean there is more than enough design websites out there that look like a 'blog'. In fact, most of them don't even need a domain name to start a blog. But then again, I'm not project manager so be it. Desig[nerd]s could be THE portal for indie designers and aspiring designers everywhere. To just target students is undermining the capability of the web. We're taught WEB2.0 for a reason. To let the users decide for themselves what is best, what they want and how they want it. To be able to create not just a site giving information freely available everywhere else, but the ultimate goal should be the birth of a portal with community of designers aiming to promote good design. Just getiing traffic is not good enough, we have to anaylse the data and know who's reading us. Who comes and goes and who comes back. With that information, we can learn to improve our site and target specific needs. (God I do sound like I'm fucking pitching a project). I believe in desig[nerd]s, I hope that Chen can see what this domain is capable of doing and what desig[nerd]s is capable of becoming. Enough portfolio sites that are just saying 'hello this is me, hire me pls' or design blogs that go 'look, this is interesting'. It should be shouting 'here we are, you're loser if you don't hire us' or 'whatever you think design is, it's not until you've checked this design out!'. That will be the only thing that would make desig[nerd]s stand out. That would be the concept. the big idea. Saying that 'We are IT and if you're not apart of it, you are behind us'. God, I'm pitching to the web am i not?! I'd be pulling strings now if I was behind the wheel. Get some mates that work in the IT industry to chip in and some mates back in jpn to collaborate.Desig[nerd]s are it, everything else is shit! Damn, we're the revolution that's been slowly cooking since day one. That's desig[nerd]s should be doing! Sure it has to start somewhere, so a blog would do for now. True, a step is a step regardless of how big or small it is. I hope that my peers realise the potential of desig[nerd]s and how it can possibly change the trend of sites promoting student work/good design.
Grac tells me that every one needs a starting point before they leave the nest and be truly great. If this is my starting point then so be it. I don't expect my peers to understand why certain projects are so important to me and why I'm hardly bothered by others. I've decided to do One Flag by myself, I see very little interest in it from the rest so I'm going on this alone. I believe in it. Maybe my ideas are too radical and I'm some kind of a hippie/rebel incarnate, but as long as I find purpose in what I believe, it will be enough to sustain me long enough for me to go on until the deed is done. Even if it breaks my back. I've always believed that some partnerships last forever. They do when they think alike. So until that partner in art/design/belief (besides the Goddess) comes along, these ideals I have in my mind will have to wait. I don't know why I do what I do. I hate commercialism, yet I seem to be good at it. Well, let's see if Advance Web can prove me wrong. So it's a bloody campaign. Well you know what, fuck it. Show me what you've got, and maybe I'll give you a run for your money. Campaigns are not easy. However, as long as you know your enemy well enough to know to hit where it hurts (or in this case, encoI durage them to buy and consume), half the battle is won! Call me silly but I think somewhere inside my mind, a campaign has already begun. Not to sell and to consume, but it's slowly brewing into something I dare not even mention. Bryan, Rin and David...this is where i need you guys.

(p.s - eugene, thanks for the shellshock experience. probably the closest thing to a war I've ever experienced. go watch brokeback mountain, it might change your perception on folks with a broken back. nothing is as it seems. seeing may not lead to believing, believing may not lead to the truth. decide for youself. )
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