Dungeon Talk

I'm in the basement, where the Black and Mild smoke won't irritate my wife. This where the drafting table and all the equipment lives. Admittedly, I don't spend much time down here. I work almost exclusively off of my laptop, on the dining room table. This is the only way I can stay focused and still spend time with my significant other. However, when I'm down here with the music and the art, I can't help but feel as though I am neglecting a huge chunk of me. I know that I use elements of my artistic person in my commercial pursuits. Typography is grafiti to me. Graphic design is doing a piece except the wall is a monitor. Those clever slogans are just homeless lines from "dope rhymes". I am passionate about it all, but only a fraction of it has been profitable. That fraction is what I base my career on. Just typing that feels crazy, besides actually living it.
I live on the web now. I'm constantly face to face with the competition and their product. I am furnished with armor in the form of information and the constant reminder that there are plenty of gifted people in this field. I have always been one to believe that awareness promotes evolution and that humility is the foundation of power. A lot the people who do what I do, do it better than me. Twitter has led me to quite a few. Don't get me wrong, I always operate at a professional caliber but sometimes professional is wack. There is always room for growth. Motivation is being exposed to those who have grown.
With that being said and the black (black and mild) being 2/3 ash, I'll announce the launch of the new HDS site. A little bigger. A little bolder. Not as slick as I envisioned, but better than before. As I tighten my grip on CSS, I promise you all a more pleasurable online experience. Maybe my business schoolmate @smerx or my comrade Chen from the Florida side can offer a bit of tutelage. Either way, the knowledge will be acquired. I also updated my Twitter background. It took outrageously long to actually upload, but that's Twitter. It's cool, but I'm paying more attention to colors now so I'll say it's OK. I will most definitely be laying out a new composition, but I welcome any feedback on the current one.
I dudded the black out. This beat has been playing for an hour. I have forgotten a verse I wrote in my head while I was writing this. I am skitzophrenic and every one of my personalities is exhausted. I think I'll stay up til they pay up, but this money on my mind is the money I can't find. Next time.........

Quickie

Just a quick thought.
If you use Twitter correctly, it is an invaluable tool that connects you with what you want to know and who you want to know. If used incorrectly it becomes another disease den where we lay our IPs. Its all up to the user.

Warning

Quick update. You designers have a couple of months left. Once I get in tune with CSS via Dreamweaver, the weak will have no relief. I am poised. Twitter is like mainlining information (stay tuned for Hollagraphics Design Services PSAs on Twitter. Jewels.......). The resources and the tutorials are like steroids, except crap graphics are the only thing being destroyed. My brain is lit. My mind is light. My grasp extends........

One for the Road

Nothing like designing with HBO Comedy playing in the background. To keep it 100(as in 100 percent or absolutely true)there are so many things that are better than this scenario for other folks, but I love it. Sometimes I let the news trudge on as ambient noise and successfully poison my peace of mind. For certain styles of design, chaos is fitting. However, I prefer to program tranquility via pen stroke. Other times, like this, I just let the design be.......

My bad.....

Sorry for the hiatus, but sometimes you've got to get filthy in order to clean up. My house was out of order, mentally, physically, personally and professionally. I can admit that and I don't miss the weight on my shoulders. There are still several monkeys in my bookbag, but they don't count. At this point in life, as I know it, I am just happy to BE.
Over the past two weeks, I've been on and off trains and buses, hired and fired, but not defeated. I have performed as a diligent Production Assistant on a major Optimum Online Commercial at Silvercup Studios in Long Island City, NY and dawned the role of my father's namesake at his 60th surprise party in Goldsboro, NC. I have held my tongue in the face of bigotry and reserved my opinions in favor of decorum. I have experienced an epiphany beneath the stars and recognized the need to accelerate ALL of my efforts. As far as life is concerned, my skillset is too narrow to support an arrogance as broad as my own. If you believe that you are extraordinary, than a lot is far from enough.
With that being said, Shout out to my partners Keve Huggins + Oscar Perez, Jr for their continued support and energy as well as Tanya Morgan for killing their listening session in DC. Til next time.....hustle on!