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May 02, 2011

My problem forever

The overall mood on my dashboard regarding a certain Al-Qaeda leader’s death isn’t very favorable, which kind of irritates me. So many “whatever, we have to worry about retaliations now, great going US” or “Oh it only took TEN YEARS, GOOD JOB USA ” feelings.

And yet:

I know if I came to tumblr and everyone was barfing rainbows and unicorns over this event, I’d be irritated at everyone thinking everything’s hunky-dory and I’d be the person being that grump who’s worrying about the inevitable retaliation efforts.

Some people can just never be happy.

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Awesome Every Day: Straight up, I'm not the type who's up for celebrating anybody's death.

awesome-everyday:

I’m kind of apathetic right now. I’m sorta glad this will do good things for Obama’s re-election… but even that has me feeling kinda meh.

Somebody died, you guys. Someone died, and lots of other people have died because of oil his being an excuse to start a war a terrorist. Men, women…

I found this on my dashboard and it just made me think of this conversation I had with my dad less than an hour ago. We were sitting in front of the TV watching the news, and he expressed his dissatisfaction with how Obama handled his speech. “He should’ve smiled more or his speech should have felt more celebratory,” my dad said. “Have Americans forgotten how to rejoice? Osama bin Laden is dead!” and he said he found Americans’ lack of joy at this news to be extremely saddening. I found it interesting…the thought of how the President should perhaps appear more joyful hadn’t occurred to me at all.

And maybe I’ve just been watching the wrong channels, but all of the reporters who were reporting also looked very controlled, like they’re just reporting anything else that’s very serious. Their words felt celebratory, congratulating Obama for being “gutsy” enough to approve the move, saying what a great day this is for America. But it didn’t really feel like it in terms of their energy or spirit. This one bearded guy on CNN looked grim, but I suspect he always looks so. Most everyone else was very expressionless. The only people I saw that seemed bursting with pride and celebration was the crowd at the front of the White House.

And it makes me wonder, news of this scale…how differently would the President appear, would the reporters seem, etc. if this was, say, during Kennedy’s presidency (or presidencies of the earlier half of the 1900s)? Somehow I imagine the news media of the old would’ve had a field day with this, reporters would be throwing their hats, people hugging and congratulating…

But that’s just because of my impression of how those eras must have been like through controlled media.

My thoughts kind of wandered away from me and they ended up in an odd place that I don’t really know what to make of! Haha. But in any case…I celebrate the utter end of a life that was in charge of so much damage to the families directly affected by 9/11. And I trust that our gov’t is handling the possible retaliation cases. Hopefully it’s not misplaced, hahah.

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August 20, 2010

So despite my lack of activity in the world of social-media, I have been quite busy! I just haven’t been blogging about it. Mostly because I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about what direction I want to go in as a GD’er, what my stance and thoughts are in terms of what graphic design is to me (and all of those things together = jumbled incoherent thoughts!)

Have also been thinking about what my voice as a graphic designer is and how I’m supposed to stand out from the crowd. A lot of ambitious thoughts and not enough confidence and skills to back it up. Sobering mood at times, but at least I feel like I’m onto something. Conceptually, I’m there, which I think is the most important part. But what I mostly struggle with is the execution of those ideas. I’m not a prolific artist and usually don’t get around to producing much unless there’s a deadline. And self-imposed ones don’t work very well.

Such is my struggle! I made a graphic design tumblr a long time ago, but hadn’t posted anything in it til just today. And suddenly there’s like..4 or 6 posts! Lol. Some of it is stuff I think is clever. Some are thoughts on projects I come across. I use it to figure out what my opinions are (I have to type and think it through sometimes. It helps that writing is linear…as opposed to my brain, lol).

But seeing as how I don’t have a very good track record with keeping up with blogs on a regular basis, we’ll see how long this lasts! If I keep it up for a while (and more importantly…post some work on there) I’ll actually post the link here to share (which I would LOVE to do) but let me first make sure its worth any of your time at all! :]

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