First of all, if anyone knows anyone who has been involved with the graduate program at Tokyo Polytechnic in media arts studies, PLEASE send them my way. I’m trying to get some information/feedback on it to add to what I’ve been able to gather from the site.
You know, some people have asked me recently why I always want to try to do so much. I asked them why I would want to do any less than everything. I want a fuckload out of life, and I intend to get it, too.
A sampling:
- Within the next two years:
- Move to Chicago (next Tuesday!)
- Build up a lot of experience in various parts of the commercial photography field
- Expand personal work and experiment in digital imaging, multimedia, film, and installation art
- Generally do and create many awesome things
- Greatly improve my Japanese skills
- Begin doing freelance work/collaboration with people/clients in Japan
- Within the next five years:
- Get published in both PDN and Communication Arts
- Move to Japan
- Start working on my masters degree in Japan
- Greatly expand freelance work with Japanese clients
- Finish my first short film
- Get POPE off the ground and running
- Continue to improve quality, scope, and intellect of photographic and design work
- Within the next eight years:
- Publish my first book
- Finish my first feature-length film
- Set up headquarters in Seattle
- Rock the fucking boat and make people take notice that my generation is changing the way we view and use information media
There’s a hell of a lot more to it than that, but you probably get the idea. Other, longer-term goals include things like getting Kubrick’s Lolita remastered and having all its bowdlerized parts resurrected so the film is as Kubrick first envisioned it, as a faithful motion picture counterpart to Nabokov’s masterful novel.
I have the talent, enthusiasm, and the work ethic necessary to do some awesome things in my lifetime, both by myself and in collaboration with my colleagues. Why the hell shouldn’t I try to do as much as I can before I check out and make way for the next world? Why shouldn’t I do photography and design and film and multimedia and sculpture and everything that I’ve ever been passionate about and everything that I’ll find new passion for in the future?
We only get one shot at this, and I see no logical path in life but to follow one’s passion to the bitter, beautiful end.
