So apparently not enough people liked the covers I designed. I didn't make the final cut of cover art entries. To see them, go to Burn Rubber's website and click the featured post link and see what they have chosen. Kinda sucks but as a designer, it's what happens. Only takes one person to say they like your stuff for it to be recognized. I'm still searching for that one person. When I do find them, I'm sending them out into the world to hype me up.
You know lately I been trying to keep myself upbeat in this down economy and you know what I found? I pick up talents fairly easily. I find myself wanting to be great at one thing but I've been thinking: What if I'm great at being 'good' at a lot of things?
What has me thinking that you ask? I went my Architecture School's conference on the future of design and a young woman from YouTube by the name of Margaret Stewart put a lot of my life into perspective with her lecture. She used the analogy of elephant and frog babies (crazy, I know but bear with me). Elephants put all their hope and prayers in a small number of babies while frogs just kind of lay a whole bunch of eggs and hope for a couple to amount to a frogs. Through nature, natural selection, chance, fate, or whatever you want to call it, the right number of both species make it, and as such, life and the species continue to procreate.
Lately, I been realizing that I have been looking at my education and subsequently my life in an elephant type of way. Trying to fit into this one field, in one way, with one goal and I'm starting to think I should go at it in the frog type of way. I mean I'm already great at being 'good' at a lot of different things. Why not just keep doing that until one of them pans out more than the others? Make sense? It's starting to make more and more sense to me.
Thomas Bowman Out.
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