2010

So I’ve been a bit busy during the past month or so. It was holiday time, which with my cornucopia of a family, is a long and varied event. December includes a birthday for myself, a nod to Hanukkuh for one side of the family, and a very festive Christmas with the other. New Year is when Russians have their equivalent of Christmas, so it is another huge celebration, and a great time for after-Christmas clearance gifts. The 7th of January is Old Christmas (according to Russian Orthodox calendar), and the 13th brings “Old” New Year. These last two holidays got lesser attention, mainly since no one here in the states pays attention. Just small evenings of happiness for us.

Another addition to my schedule includes joining the creative team at Definition 6. They recently put out this video for Coke’s Happiness Machine campaign, so here’s a little flavor of their creative spirit.

Coca-Cola “Happiness Machine”

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Creative is in the name

Working from home/cafe can start to get to one after a while, but at least the interwebs provide some sort of distraction.

I noticed, while going through a regular gamut of sites today, that the word “creative” is a predominant theme. Well, I am looking at thing related to art and design, but golly it seems to be a bit overused in the ol’ URLs. Don’t worry, you won’t see me promoting CreativeSquirrel.com anytime soon…ok, so I just looked and it’s taken anyway.

First stop we go to Creative Hotlist to see if there are ever any new additions in Atlanta employment opportunities (rarely) and skim over New York positions to read and dream about positions (gotten some interviews off this, but no bites). While I’m browsing for gigs and hitting the C button, I check out Coroflot (even worse for ATL) and Craigslist (usually rotten egg opportunities for ATL, good for NY freelance) as well. And I’ve just found Creative Circle, which looks good for NY, but doesn’t cater to ATL. Creative Heads has one post for Atlanta, but it’s a motion gig, so that’s cool. And then there’s the Creative Group recruiting folks, but moving on…

Gig hunting takes me also to Motionographer, which then reminds me to look up some After Effects tricks….which leads me off to CreativeCow. A nice place for feedback and tutorials, and free. I still use Lynda.com, but it’s a good place to turn for random inspiration and I can put their tutorials on an ipod and watch em when I’m stuck in line at the post office (ew).

What to do this weekend? I stopped reading Creative Loafing in college, but I go back to the website every so often…got some inspiration, got some broken links, and even got a place I wanna check out tonight. Independent opinionated Atlanta newspaper, I’m still happy you are here through the ages.

It seems there’s much more “creative”ly named stuff out there, but that’s all on my mind for now. Ok, one more, which requires hitting the A button instead: AtlCreatives.com . I haven’t gone here much, but I probably should. I see their stickers around town, and anything with a sticker tells me I should be going there.

This guy just looks creative.