Fractured Thoughts from Buckyben

Meet with Ben from Gigya today and we disucssed the new integration of thier widge embed features into Eyewonder, aka, Adwonder. I’m staring a series of tests:

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The backyard drawing series is moving forward. Scans to be posted soon. How refreshing the drawings make me feel. How wonderful the state of mind I am in after 20 minutes of drawing. Also look for more baby photos and updates to the Jewish melody. The call in feature will soon be updated as will more content.

Agenda’s are fluttering by. they permeate the air. Strong ego’s compete and hard work is not enough. There is a sense of urgency to make solid work and make good work and only a few people can hit the goal and the rest of the peeps are fodder. Warm bodies. People at their desks, patiently waiting to make something they can’t make. Hoping they can just become something with no work, no practice. Magic pof. Now u know how to make things happen. You should feel entitled. Yeah, um well, no.

When does working hard not make you feel good. When is dedication not enough? How can one discern when individuals let their personal agendas overshadow a group collective? Questions upon question unfolds as I am disappointed in a collective of creative and agency types producing sub par work and many people being unskilled and kicking out work that is not going far enough or not done well, or not on the mark.

I have been producing write ups, reviews, process documents and continue production executions… and i am unhappy with how my time is consumed. How often corrections to work needs to be made and how a deeper understanding just seems to be lacking in many of the soldiers. I am meditating on these thoughts and resolving to produce a scenario that will lead to a state of being and mind that affords me a quality of life where i have a life i am happy with and able to produce work and artwork that i am regularly proud of.. and mentor people wanting to learn and ready to show their skills and collaboration and mentorship ensure with a satisfaction that makes the hard times more than just a hard time. More will come on theses thoughts as I refine them further.

This year has seen the completion of and a culmination of my academic studies as of late. I have achieved a MFA. Righto Chap. My wife is pregnant and working on her final year to atain her masters degree and I have been working way to much, not socializing as much as I once did, doing more around the house in anticipation of our bundle of joy and definately not working out enough and yet, I am rediscovering a sense of self exploration and a drive to produce works of art, mostly drawings, but paintings as well. I have ben in the process of organizing much of my art works in a flat file and it too has refreshed my love of the process of producing art works. What leads to a successful piece of art varies so often that it is often a mystery as to what may be the key to success the next time. Yet diligence and persevereance will be a part of the time involved.

I have tangent’ed way from my self exploration and delved into the process associated with this and with my visit to reciting Hebrew prayers and to my visits to Synagogue, aka, temple and shul. This time of year, this process of renewal brings a recognition of the parts of life I must be sure to not let slip by, I must not be concerned with the trivial and mundane, but persevere and over come, see alternate meanings and possibilities and execute multiple tries, and find within myself the abilities and propensities that are there, and see renewal and continuation as one and always remember to be thankful for the opportunities I encounter.

Often times the designers and art directors and developers and even the creative directors I share my work days with forget or do not consider the user experience and how interface design and how the user experience unfolds in relation to promotions and general absorption of the interactive design we produce as a team. It has become increasingly important to me how the mind absorbs the experience of interacting with a piece of motion or content or visual representation, no matter how minimal or simple it may appear; the simpler the more of interest really. As i return to my systematic regimented drawing practice again, my mind has once again become calmed and reevaluations and alternate paths present themselves once again. One of the rising grassy noles is that of how a user interacts with what is available to them to consume and experience. Poor thought into the elements presented can be detrimental to the UX. And simpler is of interest when it is apropo and when it is to the point and includes the important pieces of the interactive moment. As my new portfolio site takes form a desire for ease of use and of the central elements is often in my mind, but many executions are resulting in a variety of executions and reevaluation of some of my recent works collectively as a group and as a individual artist.

Using the vast image data of flickr, I have collected a series of visual resources and reference for the backyard series, which has now taken place of the name of the raccoon series. For it is not just raccoons that motivate my desire to create drawings of these animals I encounter in my backyard, but all the animals themselves. I have narrowed the list down though and feel as thought htese are the animals I most often interact with and actually encounter as opposed to observe:

woodpeckers
doves
bluejays
cardnals
squirls
chipmunks
ducks
stralings
possums
racoon

bus:
testin the bubs is now removed. thank you for testing.

Primer is done and now it’s yellow paint time baby

I’m resisting it, but see it soon in my future. After using it for a number of contract projects, it is callin my name again.

I confess, i am becoming a flickr user and porting over alot of my photos. And loving the flickr badge feature also. go photo thingers gogogo