Sitting on the bus on the way home at the moment, and it seems that all the cool kids have their ipods and their ear buds. So I feel that I must either conform or say fuck it and one up them. I chose the latter.
Macbook + itunes + textmate = giant mp3 player with blogging capabilities included. Can’t really beat that, can ya? Only problem is battery life but 3 hours is more than I need.
/win
Also I’ve been posting music with recent posts, so I figured I’d continue doing so.
Song of the day: Low Tide by Isis and Areogramme off of their collab album In The Fishtank 14
Time for another post regarding the Outstanding Club personal statement contest. We’re supposed to pick our two favorite entries, and there were only three. Out of the other two mission statements I’m going to choose Rob Jensen’s, because his was actually about HIS life and that’s really how I understood the contest. While the other entry was about why the person wrote for a blog. So I’m going to vote for Rob’s mission statement, and my own.
There is another fundamentals of design project due tomorrow, and I figured I’d post the results. I really didn’t like this project, the idea was to make an achromatic ‘design’ with two focal points, done in graphite. I really screwed up the bottom focal point, and it will be subject to last minute fixings tomorrow morning. Anyway, here it is:
Was wandering around the internet today and I came across a contest that seemed pretty simple. It seemed easy enough so I figured I’d dive right in. The contest is that you think about and write your personal mission statement and the top two responses win a $25 Amazon gift card. After reading the post that the guy made I felt as if it would be an easy task to write up my own mission statement, and I think I really misjudged the depth of thought needed to point your entire life in either a new direction, or an old yet undefined direction.
After thinking about it for a while I came to a few conclusions that helped me shape my mission statement.
1.I’m a thinker and dreamer. I really tend to overthink a lot of what goes on in my every day life, which I think is pretty harmless and can only help me out. I also try as much as possible to be creative minded and to think outside the box - its not always the easiest thing to do but it is very motivating and inspiring to me.
2. I am barely motivated by money (ironic writing this post for a gift card?). I will not deny that money is necessary to live off of, and it is something that is needed. But I will argue that if I’m creating something and having fun with it and there happens to be a sum of money involved - to hell with it do it for the fun. But after doing things just for the money, you find out how quickly you become exhausted, and how much you begin to hate what you do.
With that said my personal mission statement is:
I would like to encourage creative thinking and push peers to be creative, to further inspire us all.
In following weeks/months I’m going to be dedicating mass amounts of my spare time to learning and experimenting with javascript. I’ve dabbled bit by bit in the past but for some reason I’ve kept myself from diving in head first, and I think that I’m finally ready to do such a thing. I’ve really been screwing around with snippets here and there for quite some time but I haven’t actually been giving time to actually LEARN what I’m doing.
I think actually declaring that you’re ready to actually learn, and setting time aside specifically do so helps the process of motivation and enjoyment. Which in turn will turn into an acceleration in learning and future projects.
So in coming weeks I’ll be posting little posts with cool little snippets/examples of things I’m screwing around with.
