I'm a little teapot

He rants. He raves. He paints teapots.

I spend so much time using the computer that it is nice to play in other ways.
I've actually sold a couple to friends and given others away (If you'd like one they are $125 (NZD).
Send me an email to discuss the kind of thing you'd like for yours.

People seem to like them and making them lowers my monumental blood pressure.

(I've decided every story should have a 'moral' - like Scrubs or Dougie Howser MD...Aesop's fables even).

It's important to have an interest outside of the work you normally do.

If you are engaged in creative work for a living going outside of your normal realm is a way of refreshing - recreation. Advertising people who flip through advertising award books run the risk of working in ever decreasing circles. The same goes for design.

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Addict-o-matic

A cool resource for you to try. Aggregates search topics from a number of sources. Thanks to Brand DNA (again) for the heads-up.

Johnny Bunko competiton

The Great Johnny Bunko Challenge from DHP on Vimeo . There's a young chap in Indiana, one Alec Quig , who has written to me about creating a career based on a polymathic degree, from which he has recently graduated. He's an interesting young man and his concerns about going forward in life are the anxieties we all face at crossroads in our lives when we are forced to make choices. Dan Pink's latest book The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need might help: "From a New York Times, BusinessWeek, and Washington Post bestselling author comes a first-of-its- kind career guide for a new generation of job seekers.There's never been a career guide like it.the fully illustrated story (ingeniously told in Manga form) of a young Everyman just out of college who lands his first job. Johnny Bunko is new to parachute company Boggs Corp., and he stumbles through his early days as a working stiff until a crisis prompts him to find a new job. St

Shoulders of giants

"A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience." "Life is just one damned thing after another." (Both from Elbert Hubbard - look him up on the wikipedia . If it's wrong - change it)

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