And so with this post comes the end of one of the first books, "How to be a graphic designer without losing your soul". The ending came with many good notes, primarily those about what it takes to be a designer in the first place, rating talent, albeit important, closer to the bottom of what's needed, behind a voice, initiative and fearlessness. With the section concerning your inner voice, I think my situation can be summed up by quoting a game I played a bit back: "Hurry now, my muse is a fickle bitch with a short attention span". Murphy's Law covers me like a raincloud, where I have a ton of inspiration when I neither have the time, nor the materials to work with it, and when I finally do decide to sit down to do something, poof, gone.
Moving forward a bit, this section in Designing a Digital Portfolio really hit home with me, and not for the better. Over my years here I've printed and given out some of my work, and always kept multiple copies in the event worst case scenario happened. Unfortunately, worst case scenario happened in all three of my backups: Laptop crashed, Desktop crashed, and MP3 player being used as a storage device got ruined during my semester abroad due to the large number of magnets in the ship. Needless to say, I have a few pieces that I currently no longer have access to, and it's rather infuriating. I've decided from here on out that hard drives are evil, and that I need to resort to something else, such as disks. Luckily enough, I'll soon have my own domain so I can stick things on there.
As a whole I've been working a lot more in photoshop recently, primarily using the travel tutorials that Dan showed me a while back. I've been making some pretty neat stuff, some of it arguably portfolio worthy, though that will probably change as I get my stuff together. I've just got this nagging feeling that I won't have nearly as much to put on there right now as I should, and that I need to get cracking on some more stuff to "fill space". Which is a horrible way of thinking, I realize this, but I can't help but having that little voice screaming obscenities at me.
I did finally get a new desktop a few weeks back. Thing is a beast. I can finally open more than one adobe product at once, and work in them almost flawlessly. Greatest. Investment. Ever.
I've also decided that photoshop is, by far, my favorite program out of the adobe suite, bar none. Illustrator and I have a love hate relationship, Flash and I have a hate, hate relationship, and InDesign and I are just sorta meh. Photoshop is the only one that's been kind to me throughout all of these years.
On the bright side, I have a possible job opportunity at a company called "Medi-Tech" in MA. They have a few places, closest to me being Fall River. They make software for hospitals, so I'm not sure if I'd be doing something web based, or perhaps interface based for their software. Who knows? We'll see what happens.
In closing: [insert mandatory ending video of something cool here]
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