The Cult of Done
Bre Pettis (one of my maker-inventor-hacker-educator-and all around DIY-heroes) posted this Cult of Done Manifesto a few months ago. I'm sharing it here because I think it's brilliant and particularly applicable right now. Done.
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Dear Members of the Cult of Done,
I present to you a manifesto of done. This was written in collaboration with Kio Stark in 20 minutes because we only had 20 minutes to get it done.
The Cult of Done Manifesto
1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
3. There is no editing stage.
4. Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you're doing even if you don't and do it.
5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
6. The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
7. Once you're done you can throw it away.
8. Laugh at perfection. It's boring and keeps you from being done.
9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
11. Destruction is a variant of done.
12. If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
13. Done is the engine of more.
Some things are really humbling
Sequoia National Forest, May 2009.
MTV and Joy Division Generative
Some really interesting logo IDs made for MTV Brazil by Piloto.tv and dmtr.org. These were created entirely in Processing, essentially a Java toolset for motion artists to create generative work.
Inspired, I made a speculation on an audio visualizer and installation based on the album cover design for Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures. I have always wanted to see the seminal design by Peter Saville animate. When I found a random preset in Form (a Trapcode plugin for After Effects) and tweaked it to react to a live audio source, I simply geeked out. There are no keyframes in the graphic, and although I used "She's Lost Control" as the soundtrack, any music or audio source will work.
Il Pensare Lion
Traveling with Mark enlightened me to his powers of contemplation. Here's a modest visual record.
Look Familiar?
A postcard found on the streets of Parma, Italy last week.
New GG Illustration
What up everyone. Just finished another illustration for Glasses Glasses magazine. Check out some of the process works in the link below.
http://brycewymer.blogspot.com/