That painful first post….. November 11th, 2008
So I’m just going to take a moment and try and reflect on where the term Information Junkyard came from….
Following graduating architecture school in ’98, the passion to create “something” was still burning strong. After relocating from Virginia to Seattle, Information Junkyard became the visual playground I used as an attempt to continue collaborating with my friends from school, as well as experiment and grow. It served it’s purpose, an outlet for all the bullshit photoshop experiments and pseudo-artistic ideas that haunted me after college. Then somewhere along the way, the things I did while screwing around, suddenly became a profession. And as it became my profession, the interest in coming home, sitting in front of the machine and dialing up an idea began to fade. What was once artistic, now became a career and finding that spark to create became harder and post fewer between. Could be said that a failed marriage and a shitload of beer also didn’t help too much.
So now, 10 years that initial spark, I find myself in a much better place in life. And I find myself at place where I feel like trying to share again, whatever the hell is in my head. Guess that’s what a blog is, right? The place where you hang your virtual hat? The junkyard for all those ideas that slip by in the morning in between coffee and some lunch? The dusty sketchbook that I use to carry everywhere with me, no becomes Helvetica Neue and the white glow of a computer screen.
With luck, no one will look too closely at any of this, as I have no intention of doing anything except recording the random shit that comes through my life, and occasionally posting a pretty picture or deep through that I’d probably be too embarrassed now to say out-loud.
So, here we go. informationJunkard gets reborn for it’s second, painful time.