Intelligent Design

"never pick sides, never choose between two
but i just wanted you, i just wanted you
i think you're a contra
i think that you lie
don't call me contra
till you've tried"
-Vampire Weekend - 'I think you're a Contra'

The internet facilitates the spread of information and ideas faster than ever before. This rapid dissemination and digestion of information and ideas at times only seems to polarize people more than ever before.

It’s easy to list examples of topics that people are quick to take sides on. Whether its war in the Middle East, climate change, the economy, gun control, abortion, gay club nights, eating whale, or women's beach volleyball there are lots of people who have lots to say about this that and the other.

In an effort to do my part for the greater good I have done a lot of brainstorming about the troubles of the world and the issues that seem to isolate each one of us from our fellow brothers and sisters.

I have come up with an idea which on first glance might only seem to offer one solution for one issue. However I feel that when considered further this one idea offers a unique opportunity, a starting place as it were, to finally unite the right and the left, the religious and the non-believers, the discriminated and the privileged on an issue that in the end means so much to the fate of the planet.

Take a look and let me know what you think.

"There's a reason they call it work. You don't wake up everyone morning and get ready to go to fun. No, you wake up and you go to work." - Myself

I guess I'm not too big on complaining about work. Because it is work. Sometimes its good, sometimes its boring, and sometimes it sucks. But most of us have to deal with it. Despite what some might recommend so far I personally haven't had a job yet where I'm loving every minute of it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiF8md-w-zw

Lately I've really hated work. So I made a status update about my 'Work Ocean' which inspired the work below. Thanks to Ginnie for spotting a couple of landmarks.

Happy friday everyone... i i i!

Excellence

"We're the best there ever was, the best there ever will be. No one can hang with our stuff. We get up in the morning and piss excellence." - Sanborn via Email

People here in Victoria take their Ultimate Frisbee real seriously. We even have our own Victoria ultimate players email list. Once a comedic sort posted sent this link out to the group:

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/09/23/110-frisbee-sports/

Alot of people were pissed off about that. And not in an excellent way. It was pretty funny.

Anyways, the above quote came from a captain of a team I played on who wrote a great pump up email about an upcoming tournament. Despite that fact that we actually sucked it was really motivating. So motivating that I created a MS Paint picture to help us visualize excellence.

And excellence is what this blog strives for.

...and now for something mildly different.

"I had a dream with you in it last night. We were drinking and telling lies. It was good." - Geordie via text

I suppose I consider myself to be a creative fellow... an 'ideas man' of sorts.

Over the past few years I have found the groundbreaking Windows graphics application MS Paint to be the most common vehicle for my creative inspirations. During that time I have enjoyed sharing my works with friends and cohorts who seem to enjoy them. I even printed a few images as christmas cards (there are several hundred for sale real cheap if you are interested).

I've realized I wanted to put all of these paintings in one accessible place, and with me being stuck at a computer all day the interweb is the most logical place. So today, March 16th 2010, I created this blog to share my MS Paintings with all who are interested. I cannot promise that they will all be funny or amazing or anything, but they will be from me.

For my 'exisiting' followers, there will be some repeats - I appreciate your patience. But I promise to endeavour to provide new works on a semi-irregular basis.