Additional Thoughts
February 21, 8:40

There are very few art forms that will make the average viewer/subject spend more time enjoying it than it took the creator to make it. Good painitings from concept to finish can take YEARS to complete, and someone can give it a passing glance while walking by, and that's it. Authors don't fare much better. Write a novel, have someone read the whole dang thing in less than a week (that is, as long as they CAN or WANT TO read the whole thing). Game designers are in the same boat: you may say it took you 80 hours to finish that game, but that's nothing compared to the amount of man-hours invested into said game to keep everything interesting.

Is that simply the way that art works? Do people wish to invest time in what they make in order to make other people spend their time absorbing whatever it was the artist made in the first place? Hmmmm ...

The 15 Minute Project
February 21, 8:20-8:35

Time quickly becomes a premium as you add responsibiliites to your life. When I was younger, I was able to play video games, work on myself creatively, do just about anything I ever wanted (and yet I still never had time to do homework). Now that there's a job and kids and a wife and a home added into the mix, I find that there's no place for me to provide a personal voice.

Today, that all changes.

The plan: I'm going to take a 15 minute section out of my life and dedicate it to putting something up here. I'll give myself only 15 minutes to put it all together: formatting, spellchecking, editing, modifying. There's not a lot of time for me to dilly-dally if that's the case, so I have to make the most out of every single second. The results (no matter what they are) will be posted up here for everyone to see.

My eventual plan is to actually have a website again. I have played around with different formats for this website for some time. It has been a home for web comics, flash video games, pictures for when I post onto forums on other people's sites, a little bit of everything. That last part I'd like to bring around again. Now I'm not saying that everything is coming back up. Fans of my old webcomics (both of them) will be surely disappointed that those are probably never ever in a million years coming back.

Wow, its only been four minutes and I've put all this stuff up. Nice. I don't think I've ever done anything like this quite so quickly.

You know what I think would be cool in theory but never seems to work out in practice? Stream of consciousness blogs. It sounds like a great concept: giving yourself the ability to pour out whatever is in your head, just to see what it is, exactly, that may come out. Unfortunately, I don't think that a lot of people are interested in hearing what the heck it is that's going on in your head.

Now that I have thirteen minutes still remaining, its time to crack out some design aspects of this website. SECRET: The initial design for this site took fifteen minutes.

Five minutes later, and I have a logo! Yes!