Here's my card...

It's about that time once again. Well, once every what, 9 - 10 years. Never been the one to do a massive amount of business cards. As it turns out, most of my work comes from word of mouth. But sometimes you got to X-Men Gambit-it up with some pristine business cards.

© 2017 Dulani Wilson / bluntspear.com. All rights reserved.

Got these printed at printed.com, which was Goodprint back in the day, and they never fail to get the job done right. One card misprint, but otherwise quality is great.

Designed this recently with all my social media and new portfolio website. At the moment still adding stuff to the websites re: storyboard works but all in all been busy working on a few stuff for People In Motion – a charity that's doing massive things at the moment in the field of athletics, movement and sports. Hold tight for that. 

But for now, I am currently trying to get some ideas down for new T-Shirts for TheActionPixel.com + TheActionPixel.store, as I may have found a new supplier that I can actually depend on. Because god knows after the month I've had, I need people in my circle to be held to some goddamn accountability for their ghastly shortcomings. And that's putting it kindly.

Sum up,

Hem Tag, I'm it.

The 10 Laws Of The Creative Freelancer

Sum up,
Unite

Article on the Dirtback *Essential Read*

 "mm, mm Mommy, Dirtbag guts are the bestest! Wish I could kill one everyday."

Gentle people, creatives etc. Thought this would be a good read. Lengthy but good. Puts the modern creative industry into perspective. My suggestion: bookmark it, and send it to any dirtbag (referred to, in part, as 'hack' in the article) that crosses your path and steps on your toes. My favourite excerpt in reference to crowdsourcing (where they have millions of creatives clawing and scraping for one job or contract, which, in the end pays poorly [the organisation's way of complying with government standards by rebuking unpaid work schemes without actually having to pay much):

"...So, if my math is correct and every one of the 73,000 designers won just one competition a month, each would get $8.22. Sure not every one will win with the four to six entries they must submit to each contest…assignment…act of piracy on the high digital seas…whatever, so some designers will get $16.44 or maybe $32.88 per month? If I lived in Bali…and was stealing someone else’s electricity, I could live well. Well…live..."

Read it here:

Designers, "Hacks" and Professionalism: Are We Our Own Worst Enemy?

It mentions in particular designers, but is quite applicable to all creative fields. If we can identify the problem, we are halfway home to a solution.

Sum up,
Do your homework. Pop quiz is Monday.

The Diary of a Freelancer: the Creatives and the Gatekeepers

In order to thrive, albeit survive in the turmoil of Britain's "creative" landscape, you have to decide who you will emulate and surround yourself with. There are generally 2 types of people, in any creative industry, whether it is music, film or art:
The Creatives and the Gatekeepers.

The Creatives are holders of great phantasms, weavers of whims. We take something, ordinary or blande, and make it tremendous, a monolith amongst the drab and bore. Their lives become testaments to their craft. It was an Egyptian philosophy (and im transcribing here)that said the first thing a man must realise is that he will never truly master his craft, but his aiming to do so, even though he knows it is never truly going to happen, is the mantra of the Creative. Nihilistic yet triumphant all in the same breath.

The Gatekeepers are a whole other beast. They usually have high positions in your industry, an industry they have little or no knowledge of or attachment to. Sycophantics and socialites by nature, they usually have access to sh*t loads of money. Profligate and insidious. Money gives them power, and through their small minds they determine what gets made and which projects get overturned.

So essentially the Gatekeeper is really a wall of mortar and ignorance, creating a barrier between the Creative and his or her artistic expression.

But there are hybrids that come from these two influences. There is the Quasi-types, that blend the best of both, and usually have a strong creative background.And there are the Pseudo- Creatives (Creatives who arent really creative) and Pseudo-Gatekeepers (even more pretentious, the ones that play the part, but arent good either at art or handling money). I would call names... but the list would be too long for this blog and they arent worth the sweat under my ball sac. Want to see an example of this dynamic? Read this article.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/may/16/british-film-industry-fund-women?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

So the only question that remains:
Who do you represent?

Sum up,
Being a boss is more about direction than it is about control. Wake up you dumb bastards.