Metrics
Some people I work with don’t care about anything other than successful numbers. As someone involved in creating artwork for a living, it’s difficult to mesh with that metrics-based world. But I do keep track of almost everything I do at work so just for fun, here are some of my numbers from the past 14 days (since Sept 19th): PHOTO RESEARCH: 7 requests filled (way down – I usually get 3+ a day) PHOTO SHOOTS: 18 PHOTOS SHOT: 11 GB VIDEO SHOOTS: 4 HOURS WORKED:... Read More
Thoughts on Thoughts
I am Captain Insomnia. My super power is the ability to stay awake forever. Sometimes I just can’t get my brain to shut the hell up. It’s probably clinical and can be treated with a pill which will destroy other parts of my life. Fuck, anything I write seems self-servingly lame. Part of my problem is that I’ve been destroyed by the passing of a person from my life. Good friend, a love, someone I never wanted to be without. There are smears of black... Read More
Every Day the Same Dream
Unhappy at work? Maybe your job is just a game. Like this game from La Molle Industria. It’s billed as, “A short existential game about alienation and refusal of labour. Or, if you prefer, a playable music video.” Read More
Hooked up
Funny how things work in the Corporate World. After 5 years of being blocked, Flickr was recently freed from the shackles of Big Brother’s proxy at my work. All it took was a single phone call from someone obviously much more important than I. Now, instead of having to bring images home on a jumpdrive and maybe uploading them to Flickr from my personal computer, if I’m not too tired from a long day, I can upload photos directly to my account as soon as I’m... Read More
Fortune’s Fool
Maybe it was the lateness of the hour, but at the end of the work day today, the cleaning woman showed up and started speaking with such prophetic wisdom that I found myself listening intently to every sentence in her half-Haitian-half-English tongue. She’s just like an oracle in the old Greek style. She almost never shows up when you expect her, she’s so hard to understand that you almost pull a muscle listening and much of what she has to say is so simple as... Read More
