Tuesday April 17, 2007

A Word to the Wild

I was updating my clips and was reminded how much I enjoyed talking to Flash pioneer Josh Davis for the February issue of Creativity. (Here is the article as a pdf.) Davis works from his home out on Long Island and is known for wild, experimental stuff—some of it for clients like Motorola, a lot of it for himself. He sent in a nice, casual picture for the article (as you can see) and had a good piece of advice for anyone who wants to do what he does—in any field. Here it is:

“Sometimes I’ll get emails from people who ask, ‘How do you get to do all this cool stuff?’ Then I’ll look at their website and it’s very normal. I tell my students all the time: The type of work you make is the type of work people will hire you to do. If you do really crazy shit, people are going to hire you to do really crazy shit. It’s that simple.”

Posted by jim at 10:32 AM ||