what were you doing at 19?
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- Jaline0
I am here, right now.
- _niko0
It's interesting, These kids have grown up in the digital age, been around computers and the web since day 1. Maybe it's been so ingrained in their conscience that ideas flow out of them and onto the screen so naturally.
There's also an amazing influence and sharing of ideas and techniques on a global scale thats unprecedented in history.- these kids have a way more symbiotic relationship with computers than we do.harlequino
- And THAT is what my 60 year old friend said to ME, about our generation.harlequino
- I became obsessed at the age of 12.Jaline
- kelpie0
I was briefly homeless, then traveled to africa as a soldier of fortune, returning a changed man, at which time I started planning for my hedge fund and--
- morilla0
I was smacking people in the mouth at 275lbs on end and slant stunts.
- ItalianStallion0
At 19?
Lens flare and blur filter...
- Llantera0
tagging the streets, running from cops, a going to art school
- fyoucher10
Damn.....bookmarked.
- dskz0
art school
- 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!
- studderine0
i'm 23, so i didn't live with a computer all my life. i had one in the 7th grade, but i didn't start using it as an everyday tool till i was 15 or 16.
- then i learned frontpage and i thought i rocked it!studderine
- tank020
drawing comic books!
- NotByHand0
Pfewww...
My work was substantially better than that when I was 19...* nose grows rapidly...
- alicetheblue0
in a convent
- 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