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Why the porn industry is killing creativity
I have a confession to make. If we knew each other when I was 14 years old, there’s a very good chance I masturbated thinking about your mum (and your sister… and your sister’s friend – usually together).
Sure, on occasion I’d manage to get my hands on a wayward copy of Scope (thanks Dad), but for the most part the average candle-bashing involved nothing more than my imagination.
I was a master. I could piece together a story that would make Jeffrey Archer proud (or at the very least, blush), starting from how we met, flirted, seduced and succumbed all with the perfect timing of a thriller.
And I could create a new story every day, or if I’m to be completely honest, twice a day… sometimes more.
Fast forward 20 odd years and the world has changed, although not entirely – admittedly I still enjoy the odd manual override.
However, I’ve become lazy.
Gone are the Booker Prize winning scenarios, only to be replaced by the cheap thrills of youporn.com. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining, the convenience of the click/shake/wipe method has its advantages. I just feel that an imagination is a terrible thing to waste, and if you have a job like mine, my imagination is a tool that I require daily.
So, what’s the solution? Lads, there’s only one thing for it, you need to double your efforts, what ever you’re doing now, do it twice as much! BUT and it’s a big bold but, every other time – no porn allowed.
Do it for yourself. Do it for your career, for god’s sake man… do it for your country.
So yeah, to sum up, the porn industry is definitely killing creativity. Either that or your mum got ugly…!
October 18, 2011 at 10:17 pm | 8 comments
Share of wallet
A few months back @TasosCalantzis of the Red Dot award winning design firm trstrl told me about FoundersCard. It’s basically a discount club of sorts for business founders. I signed up (and have already saved twice what I spent to subscribe). Today, the actual card arrived in the mail:
It’s metal, shiny, awesome, and completely useless. This card is unapologetically form-over-function (they give you the option to print or photograph a paper version) – and I love it!
The term share of wallet used to be figurative, now it’s literal. Carrying a wallet is a grudge purchase in and of itself. So I now carry the brilliant and small Bellroy Smart Sleeve (as introduced to me by the carryology crew), if you want to get your card into my wallet, it has to be something I use just about daily, the others get relegated to the backpack. Either that, or it has to look like the FoundersCard.
Don’t kid yourself, design matters…!
(I do wish that they’d used an apostrophe though; either Founder’s Card or Founders’ Card – grammar matters too)
August 8, 2011 at 3:25 pm | No comment
Brian Mulholland’s son… and proud of it
In February of 1994 Depeche Mode were billed to play in South Africa. I was 19 years old and a huge fan. All I wanted was to be a part of the tour in some way. A year before my Dad was the general manager of PA Sound, the sound company owned by Attie and Isa van Wyk of Big Concerts. I begged him to get me a job, I said that I would, “lick the stage clean” if need be.
August 1, 2011 at 11:39 am | No comment