Stuicide

So, I’ve been watching my Flickr account all day long… I’m so close…

I don’t know why, but 15,000 overall Flickr views seems like a nice round number to celebrate. I’m right on the edge. The goal is to get to 20k, in a month. So basically the end of April. The best way for me to get more views? Add more pictures.

Wish me luck!

So I finished up my last midterm last night and finally my brain was able to wander and think creatively. I like school and all but you get so busy working on projects and studying for tests and trying to cover a lot of material, you lose the time you need to be creative. I hate that, because school is supposed to inspire and raise your drive to do incredible things. I’ve found that school more often than not is about memorizing a lot of stuff to recite it in a test. It’s a lot of verbal garbage and maybe I should have known that’s what I was getting into when I signed up for Grad School after 4 years of Business school.

Anyways, I saw a few photo contests which I feel completely outclassed in, but I’m going to enter anyways because I want to try and push myself to create an amazing image. One of my goals for the next few months is to take a picture that I love so much I want to print it on a wall print and hang it. Hopefully this will allow me to do so.

Also, I’ve been stumbling a lot around on the web and I like to focus on finding inspiring stuff on the web. I found a lot of cool stuff at the Ted website.

• Adam Savage from Mythbuster’s had a great speech about the journey.
• J.J. Abrams talks about his mystery box.
• Johnny Lee and Wii Remote hacks.
• Author Malcolm Gladwell and spaghetti sauce.
• Dave Eggar’s Once Upon a School.

There are so many more but those are just some of the ones I’ve seen. If you guys like ‘em I’ll post up a couple more as I stumble across some other great ones.

Many more sites and places with great messages and ideas. I’ll write more about it next time but one tag line I hear a lot from this site is “Make cool shit” which says so much…. check out GreyScaleGorilla and check out the Daily Photos, some really amazing stuff in there.