I have always been interested in everything. Growing up I loved biking, skateboarding, snowboarding, art and music, as I grow older some of my hobbies from my past become passions, other drift away and some stay as hobbies. Art and music have stayed with me my whole life and have developed into an almost obsession. Art is no longer “art” for me its what my life is becoming with my career aspirations in interactive media. Music is no longer just something I listen to it makes up my character. Growing up I relied on the knowledge of good bands through friends, family, radio and television. As my musical taste became a specialized niche, the majority of artist i listen to haven’t even released an album, and if so are impossible to find outside of major metropolises. This is where music blogs become so beautiful.
My love for visual art which sprouted as a child has branched into such a Brod spectrum it is hard to keep up all specialties. I love fine art graphic design, illustration, interactive media, architecture, industrial design, interior design and fashion . Braud I know. My interest in fine art influenced my decision of a post secondary education in Interactive Multimedia and Design. At the time I knew nothing of interactive design, user interfaces, programming or even how the Internet worked.
As my program specialized with traditional design, interactive design, programming, video, animation and 3D we were given some basic classes on marketing, business and communication. Prior to enrolling in these classes I felt that they would be GREAT for freelance design work or for up and coming designers and how to break into such a competitive field. When I finally attended class, the topics were not exactly what I had hoped but set up a great foundation to my growing interest in business, marketing, advertising and entrepreneurship.
It has taken me a few months over the summer to finally settle back down to reading heavily again. I have just finished My Start Up Life by Ben Casnocha. The book was an excellent intro into entrepreneurship from a young and established business person. Ben’s book covers everything from communication skills, self motivation, team work, and persistence, marketing, amount things. The book covers his journey through Silicon Vally. His business, Comcate , a software company may not be exactly where I would like to end up but is was filled with knowledge any business person can use.
Today at lunch I just purchased Chasing Cool by Noah Kerner and Gene Pressman. Noah is the founder of Noise Marketing and Gene Pressman was the co-CEO, creative director and head of merchandising and marketing for Barneys New York I know it seems kind of funny that I would purchase that seeing I like to think I know where the trends are going, what is “in” but I am hoping to understand the marketing and economics aspects of the market that try and find what is cool. It has good reviews so I am hoping it will live up to its standards.
My new found passion for advertising, marketing and enterpenurship will help me as my career continues to develop over the following months and years. I just had to find a specific market I was knowledgeable in and wanted to be a part of.
I found this site a few weeks ago Ain’t No Disco. Its pretty cool. It is a photoBlog of a the interiors of a few Ad, Design, Marketing, Media companies.
I will put some music that i have been listening to up recently, some new stuff some old stuff… I just have to wait for access to my mp3 collection.
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