Porous

[talktooloose]

I find myself emotionaly pourous this week. Under other circumstances, I would be diagnosing myself as anxious and depressed, but in form, these pathologies are making me very creative and receptive.

The upside is how deeply I am being affected by art; at the AGO last week, listening to an audiobook of Michael Ondatje's magnificent novel, Divisidero, appreciating the depth and space in the mix of MeShell N'Degeocello's album "Comfort Woman". I also recorded vocals on the weekend for the first time in months, and it was easy to access all I needed for this simple but exposed song.

The downside has been my misery at trying to get a design approved at work. I have the horrible misfortune of presenting to a diverse committee who absolutely refuse to agree on anything and are forcing me to make design after design after design. As I begin each new one, I am utterly weighed down by the certainty I will fail and that the deadline is looming like an upraised sword.

But it is sunny and I biked to work. All will be well, I'm almost relatively certain.

Comments

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

are they paying by the hour or was it a set fee for the whole job? I find that people do this MUCH LESS when they are being charged by the hour ...

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

It's my day job. Good point, I have to remind them how much the process is costing. A colleague asked me how much the rights for one of the photos would be and I said, "nothing compared to what they've paid so far for the design process."

The problem is that my supervisor set up the review as a committee, though I begged her to let just one or two people approve it. Inevitably, everyone has fallen in love with the sound of their own voices. One email exchange saw people saying diametrically opposite things to me and then turning to each other as if they had been in agreement, smiling, and saying we were going in a good direction.

[redknot.livejournal.com]

I don't know how you designers do it. I bought a great book, old but excellent, to try and learn more about design: http://www.sensible.com/dmmt.html
Have you seen it? The guy has great tips, but one of them is "Relinquish control of your home page because there are too many interests involved and it can't possibly look pretty."

[painglass.livejournal.com]

I felt like i had something to say, but when this blank box was presented to me, my mind blanked.

I am glad that you too are getting to experience sunny days. The first bike ride of spring is always a glorious thing!