Friday, October 27, 2006

Well, we can draw....

[Welcome to my blog! If you watch a lot of movies, most of it should make sense. I tend to lapse into movie quotes, literary and pop culture references (or whatever the kids are into these days with the big pants and the walk-mans and the break dancing and the I-don't-know-what). If I seem to jump around from one topic to another, it's because I'm making it up as I go along, and I advise you to approach life in the same fashion. And besides, I wasn't at the computer the whole time. Read a book! But he to-day that watches old tapes of Mystery Science Theater with me, shall be my brother, be he ne'er so vile,....]

When job hunting, you may be advised to fit in, to find out what is available and say "I can do that, too." But when starting a business, you are better off defining what makes you different -- what do you offer that the others don't? After exchanging a few sidelong glances with my fellow citizens of Santa Poco, I was ready to offer, "We can sew!" But then it became clear: WE CAN DRAW!

That is what this business of mine will offer that a graphic designer may not: I can draw and paint. So I can enjoy working WITH graphic designers and marketers and web developers. And I hope that this will become a useful forum for creative, um, stuff (as soon as I learn how to work the blogger thinger better).