Ok, I found a hero!

Bjork!  Got any connections?  Totally changed my view of music and design over 10 years ago.

Got to see her live in Moscow, amazing.  Lots of fire.

The Ugly Truth on Heros

I don’t have any heroes, and I don’t have any questions.  There, I said it.  It’s hard to plan an interview when you don’t have any of the above.  Damn frustrating too.  I feel like it’s a reflection on my own character - you don’t have heroes?  Well, if you want to be anything, or want any success or want to be a good designer, you’d better get some. 

Well, how do you get heroes?  Look at webpages for stuff you like?  I guess I lump “heroes” and “liking” into two different categories.  Part of my job in Roswell is doing trend research, and I’ve spent the last 2 years searching through WGSN and other smaller sites for trend forcasting.  Did anyone from those hundreds of site strike me as a hero? No.  What the hell is wrong with me?  Should I be an accountant instead?

Heros have passed through my life, but as I think more about it, they are either dead or MIA!  And none of them are design related!

Heda Kovaly-after reading her amazing bio, I spent several months writing to journalists in the Czech Republic to find her.  Mission was accomplished, but as I said in class, it’s been a while since I heard anything and I fear for the worst.

Daniel-bek Dagaev - Chechen refugee I met while working at a refugee camp in northern Czech Republic.  Amazing man, but our correspondence also ended abruptly.

Marc Chagall - Yeah, the famous painter.  First guy that really changed my perspective on how to approach art.  Dead.

 Anna Akmahtova - Amazing poet.  Long dead.

 My father - floor cleaner at IBM - turned software developer (thank him for word wrap), software engineer for NASA’s shuttles, started own business.  Sorry, not among the living either.  

I’m also frustrated because I feel so isolated from all PC students outside my Winter 07 group.  I lived on campus during my undergrad, and I know there is a huge difference in the social scene between those that are around school and those that aren’t.  And I feel like the Co-Ho world has a huge advantage, and I’m on another planet.  Likewise, with my projects, work, car problems, family, and a home that is battling demolition from developers, I feel I have little time to socialize.  I feel I knew more students before I came to PC, just from reading their blogs!

Sorry for the shpiel, but it has been a very long day -  an all-nighter, my in-laws leaving, class from 1-11, car issues, and a bunch of emails detailing a very long day at work tomorrow.  Once the caffeine drains out of me, I’ll calm down and maybe sleep a little.

I appreciate the help I recieved in class with an interview person, any crack in a door is a great help!  I just wish I was a little bit more intune with the world of other designers and spent more time remembering names and being inspired.