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bottom of the death valley.
7:44 AM.
29 April 2012 @ 02:31 am
Friday was pretty darn awesome.
ADM Show 2012 happened. We climbed into Old School, bore the brunt of the heat, and spent more time screaming hellos to ex-schoolmates and friends. The wine did its job. I was in a really good mood. Unfortunately in my state (friends and alcohol) I couldn't take in very much of the actual exhibited work.
Just a thought about the whole thing, then. Being in advertising, most of the work just didn't interest me very much, at least not immediately. I did appreciate the aesthetic quality. We have good graphic designers. But the thinking that's going on in advertising right now goes beyond just designing well. In all fairness, though, I'll probably need to return for a second look. It was the wine...
After that we hopped to Home Club. My friends, my friends, I'd be lost and listless without you. It was a long, insanely lovely evening filled with plastic cups and merrymaking. I call this bunch the Catsexuals, for my own reference. They aren't as strange as I thought they were, when we all first met at the en bloc party.
Maybe deep down we're really all the same.
*
I want to live well. Really. It's easy to get caught up in the work--the painful insecurity of what we do. But to fall in love and be with friends, write a few lines of poetry in the rain and find the differences in the colour of sky here and Sydney... those are all important too. To sit back and let the world move beneath my feet. I want to slow down and appreciate the little things.
ADM Show 2012 happened. We climbed into Old School, bore the brunt of the heat, and spent more time screaming hellos to ex-schoolmates and friends. The wine did its job. I was in a really good mood. Unfortunately in my state (friends and alcohol) I couldn't take in very much of the actual exhibited work.
Just a thought about the whole thing, then. Being in advertising, most of the work just didn't interest me very much, at least not immediately. I did appreciate the aesthetic quality. We have good graphic designers. But the thinking that's going on in advertising right now goes beyond just designing well. In all fairness, though, I'll probably need to return for a second look. It was the wine...
After that we hopped to Home Club. My friends, my friends, I'd be lost and listless without you. It was a long, insanely lovely evening filled with plastic cups and merrymaking. I call this bunch the Catsexuals, for my own reference. They aren't as strange as I thought they were, when we all first met at the en bloc party.
Maybe deep down we're really all the same.
*
I want to live well. Really. It's easy to get caught up in the work--the painful insecurity of what we do. But to fall in love and be with friends, write a few lines of poetry in the rain and find the differences in the colour of sky here and Sydney... those are all important too. To sit back and let the world move beneath my feet. I want to slow down and appreciate the little things.
