what were you doing at 19?
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- Nairn0
Taking too many drugs.
When I was 21 and in work, I was looking at the likes of Ziggen - kids in their teens - and saying to myself "I'd probably best give up - I'm already over the hill".
This kid reminds me of Ziggen - both in terms of the raw nature of his web presentation and also [all that clever stuff Bluejam says up there].
Now that I'm older, I'm less worried.
Learn from. Don't fear.
- dskz0
that cover is niiiiiiice
- tank020
drawing comic books!
- tank020
drawing comic books!
- NotByHand0
Pfewww...
My work was substantially better than that when I was 19...* nose grows rapidly...
- kezza_20
I was at art school...
what strikes me as interesting with this work, is that it's nice graphic design, but there are no ideas. They are symptomatic of the problems I have recruiting graduates, know photoshop like a fucking god, ask them to come up with a big idea or step away from the computer and they fall apart.
everyone coming through is technically amazing, but they aren't encouraged to think. waves walking stick.
At nineteen I exhibited my art (paintings) at the tate as part of an A level exhibition, and was drinking too much and getting turfed out of home.
really I just jealous and threatened. but I will say, I worked at my last agency with a guy who was the best typesetter in the world in his day (typeset crowels work etc) amazing background... got made redundant because his skills weren't needed. If all you're good at is making a coke bottle look the fucking nuts, you'll get a gig in a design production studio like smoke and mirrors, but you wont be the guy comeing up withe the campaigns.
rant over
- ethanfink0
If you have the patience this is a good read:
Annals of Culture: Late Bloomers
Why do we equate genius with precocity?
by Malcolm Gladwell
- Llyod0
working as a tax assessor and smoking a lot of pot
- skt0
getting wrecked and failing uni.
- danthon0
commercial tuna fishing
- Jaline0
Starting uni; posting here.
- dskz0
...and making 50k a year on motion graphics
- moveinspace0
Fighting a war in a country full of sand.
- magnificent_ruin0
sat around a lot, looking handsome
- Jaline0
Wrote a definition into Urban Dictionary regarding Rand's handsomeness.
- dskz0
very stupid to mention it though, fudge on ice.
- tymeframe0
Working construction, learning html tables, and getting piss drunk and stoned with my skate bros.
- Fariska0
Uhm... using blink and framesets tags.
- ItTango0
Taking film scoring and composition classes at Columbia in Chicago.
Playing my bass like there was no tomorrow.
Dating a beautiful psychopath.
On the cusp of so many things I am not doing now...
(sigh!) Where's the Macallan?
- Llantera0
tagging the streets, running from cops, a going to art school