Mental Block
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- Blueman
Ohh.. where do i start.. blank.. nothing.. it is so frigen hard to do something for yourself. I've been redoing my site in my head a milion times, I finally have something in flash.. but for some reason I have no abition to finish it off and put it online even though that is the most important thing that I have to do now. I want to expand my company and get bigger clients, but i can't do that if i have no web presance. I get myself all puped up and then I search the web for inspiration and realize that there are a million and two comanies doing the same thing competing for the same clients. How can I not be depressed... I just needed to get that out of my system. Thanks for reading. :-)
- mitsu0
look to other sites for motivation, but not inspiration.. otherwise, you'll never have the satisfactory feeling of doing something original.
- unknown0
guilty of that myself. been doing that for about a year, started working on a personal site again over the summer but started doing something else. Too much else to do.
But w/a new much faster computer and a project doing an on line store for a friend's clothing company, I've got some renewed interest.
- Blueman0
yeah.. tell me about it.. it's not even that.. It's the fact that I know that I need to get it up (the site) and I just don't do anything about it.. I don't know.. How do you guys get yourselves motivated?
- mitsu0
i just try to think of what the function of my site is and THEN let my creativity kick in.
i see to many designers that implement flash and AS sh*t just because they of the "me too!" mentality. i think the creative aspects of the site should compliment your work. not just give it a frilly stage to dance on.
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- mitsu0
because they of the "me too!"
should read
because of the "me too!"
and while were on the subject,
gimme an edit button nt!
- unknown0
ditto mitsu. I could care less about seeing another site making something spin.
God it was sickening when Flash was at it's height of all that.
Hey look I made a ball bounce!
But you did it with code from Joshua Davis and you put it on your site not to show that you created anything really, but rather that you had it too, and therefore it represented your understanding of Actionscript BECAUSE for a while that was the only way to really validate your knowledge and skill with Flash.It's fun, though, brainstorming a new site idea. I have my site that I have not really even done anything with in over a year, but when it do it will serve it's purpose as a portfolio site/journal/etc.
But I like to think about what I could do that doesn't have to really be attached to that, something that can be narrative or cause you to literally get away from your computer because it's inspired you as such. Something with photograpy I think.