School rant #34
I have so many things I could be doing right now but I have absolutely no motivation. Sans that stupid Ideation class I'm really enjoying this quarter. I have produced some fine work if I do say so myself. But for the past two hours I've been sitting here downloading/organizing music and sipping apple juice. I don't know what my problem is.
My main concern is slipping into the void of the under-designers. Perhaps I should explain myself. The way I see it, there are two kinds of digital people. Ambition divides these two groups. On the one hand, you have people barely keeping up, doing their projects at the last minute, turing in things that look awful and have absolutely no design principles. Then you have those that have extravagant, fun projects and are teaching themselves ActionScript or Cinema on the side, all the while updating a kick ass portfolio webbsite. I feel like I may be slipping away from this group. My projects are alright, but when you get down to it I always have to ask someone how to do something in Flash or when the next project is due. I personally feel I have excellent photography and HTML skills, but the line [a dotted line at least] is drawn when you get down to the nitty gritty that we aren't even taught. I really want to go above and beyond what people are expecting. I don't know what is keeping me from that, but it irks me to no end. I don't want to go into an interview and tell an employer "oh here was our assignment for the change in seasons." That's silly. They know everyone is doing that.
I look at Paul's Flash experiments and Ryan Devenish's [Brian Revenish's] portfolio site and just stare,, amazed at what they can do without anyone telling them how to do it. Most of my work contains cliche shapes or copy/pasted images from someone else's work. I look at other peoples resume's and can't fathom how they have time to learn other programs or do other activities.
I completely understand that I'm overreacting to absolutely nothing but it sucks being a perfectionist.
My main concern is slipping into the void of the under-designers. Perhaps I should explain myself. The way I see it, there are two kinds of digital people. Ambition divides these two groups. On the one hand, you have people barely keeping up, doing their projects at the last minute, turing in things that look awful and have absolutely no design principles. Then you have those that have extravagant, fun projects and are teaching themselves ActionScript or Cinema on the side, all the while updating a kick ass portfolio webbsite. I feel like I may be slipping away from this group. My projects are alright, but when you get down to it I always have to ask someone how to do something in Flash or when the next project is due. I personally feel I have excellent photography and HTML skills, but the line [a dotted line at least] is drawn when you get down to the nitty gritty that we aren't even taught. I really want to go above and beyond what people are expecting. I don't know what is keeping me from that, but it irks me to no end. I don't want to go into an interview and tell an employer "oh here was our assignment for the change in seasons." That's silly. They know everyone is doing that.
I look at Paul's Flash experiments and Ryan Devenish's [Brian Revenish's] portfolio site and just stare,, amazed at what they can do without anyone telling them how to do it. Most of my work contains cliche shapes or copy/pasted images from someone else's work. I look at other peoples resume's and can't fathom how they have time to learn other programs or do other activities.
I completely understand that I'm overreacting to absolutely nothing but it sucks being a perfectionist.