Need a compass because I'm planning on taking a trip!

[» Tagme]

Hello fellow podlings sorry I haven't been active. I've been busy with my life and trying to sort things out. As some of you may know I am still in HighSchool and am still trying to find some guidance. Would any of you mind helping me out in finding some direction in this journey of life? I wish to persue art mostly commercial art, but I have no clue how to get to that goal. Any vauge suggestions would be stellar. Or past refferences on how you broke into the Commercial art industry. Anything at all even a pat on the back would be gladly excepted. Oh, I'll also start posting a little more regularly once I get my art juices going again.

[» jamberi]

Look for an internship or a paid job working for a local graphic design company. Just figure out from businesses, or from perusing the web which ones are cutting-edge, and check to see if they're hiring. Once you start to make business connections working for a company, you will find it easier to branch off on your own.

[» nori]

I back Jamberi's suggestion 100%. The important thing is to first get your foot into the pond, get experienced, and get connected. Saturate yourself from the industry first and you'll probably have a better grip of what you want to do and enjoy. Also work *hard* on your portfolio.

[» blake wrinkles]

hmmmmm.... heart compass is best, methinks

you've just spent a goodly chunk of your waking life in a series of institutions, are you really so keen to jump into the next one? I mean i understand the paradigm and the pressures, it definatley seems like the "safe" route to comfort and security... but it can be an incredibly powerful experience to get off the pavement, out of boxes, out of radio/micro wave assult, and off the clock for a year or two... Timeless (babylon time) is the key, getting in touch with your own rhythms and how they relate to your creative processes. Travelling and experiencing other cultures in depth (as opposed to a 2 week trip) can be incredibly enriching and inspiring. And learning another language in the process is an amazing asset. For me, just living out of the white noise, under the stars, aware of the moon, with bare feet on the earth was the most important thing I ever did artistically and spiritually. I can tell you i would not trade a single thai sunrise for all the "employability" you could throw at me. Granted i'm not raking in the big bucks like phong, but my life is abundant, and i'm never lacking time to create my own projects. Its flowing together more now, my own projects are generating increasing energy ($ and otherwise)....
if you can give yourself some time just to create and develop your style and your identity and participate in an artistic community before you have to crunch numbers and produce "art" on demand, i would say do it... go play, you can get sucked in and tangled up quickly, and there'll always be jobs, now is when you are young and virile and full of rambunctious muck, go play i say!

infact... come here and paly if you want to east vancouver, the BC coast, you can stay at the wrinkle palace, we'll go adventuring (check out poxins photos of lillooet hotsprings in the optic fora), we'll romp and frolick through multidimensions with fairys and fools! welcome anytime brother (that goes for anyone reading this post... the wrinkle palace loves you, you will leave with delighted perky nipples, if you leave at all....

there are many paths and they all lead nowhere, it's all in the going

everything is wrinkly
blake

[» phong]

So you've come asking for directions to a particular place you want to go
to embed the patterns of your consciousness to manifest commercial art.

Commercial art consciousness is rooted in the lower chakras than you might want to live
and so naturally asking a bunch of artists who are on an integral path
they're invited you to open your heart chakra...
to witness the cosmic play, and flow where you fit in.

So what you've requested is a Way to get really good at making art that sells things
in service to others, so that they will give you food and shelter and toys,
or the money to manifest such things...

Now it has already been said well- experience is key.
Good experience comes from adventure
and adventure doesn't happen until you're lost!

Or until you can face in yourself that you never knew where you were in the first place
and everybody throughout your life who wanted to feel important by telling you where to go
were just leading you in circles in which you've become tangled,
because nobody but you can see where the path is.

If you are looking to take a stroll into infinity,
my compass points this way
>> Out of the cosmic trap.

Every path is so vastly different
thus your own heartpiece in the finest compass...
that and what Jamberi said. That was good too.

[» blake wrinkles]

" and everybody throughout your life who wanted to feel important by telling you where to go
were just leading you in circles in which you've become tangled "

I feel important all the time! it has nothing to do with my motivation for posting

but i was definatley leading you in circles, weaving a web of trickery and illusion... you may not realize it but you've all been hypnotized, deeply by my sumbliminal streams... if you check, you will notice that you are missing a 3 hr chunk of time from last thursday night, with no recollection of anything awry... but the next time you because suddenly and unexpectedly aroused by the sight of a frolicking squirrel, think of me fondly.....

the grandmother of all cobwebs