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Tag: creative work

  • Cutting Time

    Just a random update on my SGABF2024 stuff:

    I’ve actually been printing and test printing different things. Some are about done, and others are still in the works. It’s honestly quite frustrating how long some of the processes are. There’s a lot of adjustment for printing RISO, so I’ve had to adjust multiple times, just to get some prints to align properly. I understand the price of it now, because it really does take quite a lot of trial and error to get everything just right.

    It feels like I’m in school again, and rushing work. There’s the sense of panic, but at the same time it’s moments of mindless cutting, or just folding my life away. Or just the frustrations as well, when the prints don’t go as planned. It really makes me recall moments of the past, and how it was So Frustrating, trying to get these things out.

    It also totally reminds me to keep humble, when I talk to students about their work. I forget sometimes the amount of hurdles I had to jump through to get good at something. I’m remembering now for sure.

    Back to cutting now…

  • some changes

    So I started do some adjusting around the site as a whole, kinda to get myself a bit more visibility in the right areas, or so I hope. The blog will still be a blog, and I’ve got a clear link for it now.

    But instead, all other areas are a bit more defined.

    Basically I just arranged my front page in a certain way so that it wouldn’t assail you with my thoughts and emotions from the get go. I actually did all this because of something that I’ve been thinking hard about: how much hard work am I putting in?

    I honestly feel like I’ve been trying to cruise at what I’m pretty good at. Like writing, or just coming up with ideas. I can do that all day, almost without any effort. That also means that I can afford to “not feel like it” most of the day. Because I could crash something out really fast.

    But having to work at web design (which I can do but I suck at), or design as a whole (which I enjoy, but I can’t do well), these things take a bit more out of me. I also don’t mind making friends with strangers, but having to sell them something I don’t completely understand also feels strange to me. Which is why I rework my art programs looking for perfection, but honestly it’s just a bit too much to keep on at it without actually starting something going.

    So I’m working on the site, in hope that I direct myself to something more feasible. It also makes me work harder, which I haven’t done in a long time.

    Maybe actually for years…

    But yeah, it feels good, and you’re getting to see parts of the result of it, like on the website.

    It feels great!