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always had a passion for art, since i could hold a pencil....
most of my life I figured I'd be doing something artistic....was the one thing i had a talent at.
sometime around the age of 14 or so, i was walking through the mall and saw an artist with a set up selling canvases of the usual oil painting crap...seashores, cats etc...the guy looked fucking miserable. i freaked. ...there was NO way i wanted a future that looked like that....
around about the same time, i was in business class in highschool...grade 10 or so i think....was 15, i remember that much...
any how, the teacher showed us a video about working at Chiat Day....i was absolutely fucking sold.
Lee Clow was the main focus of the video.
he was running around like Jim Henson on crack, working on ads, and mostly from what i could see, having the fucking time of his life...
everyone there looked like a stoned hippy just having a blast...yep..that was all it took....
from the time i was 15, i knew with absolute crystal clarity what i wanted.advertising/design.....
it's been a long, long time since then (I'm 40 now) and I've since seen it's a lot different from the video i saw at age 15....but i have never once regretted going into this field....
i've been able to 'be' an artist for my entire adult life. designing, drawing creating...all of it....
it's never been boring, and i still wake up every day happy to go to the office....i get to work on projects large and small....from clients that are tiny 'company around the corner' to brands like Google and top drawer stuff like that....hell....even got to work on a bunch of stuff for Barack Obama...which was fun as hell.....
can't even imagine another career....nothing could compare to this....
- Cool story, bro.
No, like really.
Not being ironic. Or snide.mikotondria3
- Cool story, bro.