i hope we both die
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@23kon I am my own company and I live in NYC so the client / bills rant is just the standard "I want more money and more time" rant that anyone and everyone could empathize with.
But my real point wasn't that I long for some magical job (because I'm trying to carve out a magical job for myself presently), but that I feel the web can be a powerfully expressive medium—and I want to help get it there.
There are some examples but they are few and far between. I don't think we have hit our stride yet with it as a medium. Movies, music, and literature have the power to make you cry. I'm not sure the web has really elevated itself to that sort of art form. And I'm not even sure what form it would need to take to do that "on its own" since the web is sort of a lash-up of video, audio, and text. Hyperlinking is its main characteristic so that's a good place to start, but the original suck.com is still the best example of hyperlink wit and that's from over a decade ago.
I don't know what the forms or outcomes might be, but I think the web can be emotive in a way that separates itself from other media. And I'd like to make expressive things within that framework.