I’ve been here in Chattanooga for about 7 weeks. I came here for a variety of reasons, the most-pertinant (to blogging at least) being working as an in-house freelancer for Tubatomic Studio on a trial basis to see if it was a good fit for all parties involved. That was originally a three month trial period, but since it’s apparently all good in the ‘hood, they hired me today.
In addition to that nice news, I move into my new apartment downtown on Saturday afternoon. This means i’ll actually have an address in Nooga and can finally get busy checking off the massive to-do list labeled “Things To Do When You Finally Have An Address.” That list has things like:
2. Go buy furniture and fixings at IKEA
3. Order checks.
5a. Buy Ryan Hale paintings
5b. Buy Matt Curry paintings
7. Other things I don’t talk about on this blog. (You don’t think I tell you all my secrets, do you?)
In other words, i’ll be a busy boy until the New Year. But a HAPPY busy boy. I need your help with something though. I’m getting Tubatomic business cards soon and around these parts they tend to have three word job title thingies. Think along the lines of “Producer :: Graphics :: Punk” or maybe “Code :: Design :: Peon” (or something that might even actually be real and/or pertinent to me.)
I tend to hate all the recent hipster job titles (with any of the following words and their ilk: evangelist, architect, archaeologist, agent, guru, minister, champion, etc.) mainly because I think they sound overtly pretentious and sub-mainly because i’m not the guru of much of anything so i’d just be a poser. However, there is something oddly inspiring about fitting titles, even if I do feel like titles are somewhat meaningless. That being said… i’ve got a few ideas in mind, but feel free to interject any word descriptors that you might think are appropriate for me in my role as a designer guy these days. No promises i’ll use them, but I dig opening the comments up to random internet feedback. (Please be nice. I don’t want to walk away wounded. I’m emotionally fragile.)
Good luck on the job. I was actually wondering if you sold any of your own paintings. I saw some on your photo site and I was interested in getting my hands on one. Im not even sure if you sell them or not. Just let me know. Peace man.
said Chris Merritt
at 5:14pm on Tuesday
I will be soon, Chris. I’ll make it very public when I do.
said Joshua
Ill be waiting patiently then. Have a good one.
said Chris Merritt
at 6:22pm on Tuesday
captain designer man
said Paul
at 7:29pm on Tuesday
lisenced to kill (with photoshop)
said Paul
at 7:30pm on Tuesday
3 word title suggestions (we actually find them useless, too, so we like to be 3x as useless):
Design :: Image :: Blogger
Graphics :: Design :: Wordsmith
Visuals :: Inspiration :: Type
Form :: Function :: Emotion
Designer :: Photographer :: Blogger
Mix and match…
Oh, yea, welcome to the playground - we’ve been expecting you…
said George Beast
at 8:00pm on Tuesday
Visual Propaganda Designer
said Chris Merritt
at 8:57pm on Tuesday
that . designer . guy
said j.goforth
at 9:04pm on Tuesday
What’s For Awesome
said blaine
at 11:35pm on Tuesday
That HRTWRK Guy
Oh and congrats.
said hynes
at 9:25am on Wednesday
Ideologymnast.
Designinja.
Virtual Beautician.
Air Stylist.
said lee mcd
at 10:00am on Wednesday
Ah, the memories.
said Joshua
i don’t have a cute little business card idea…
i just wanted to say that my favorite parts of what you said in this post were those things that you didn’t, in fact, actually say.
said lauren
at 1:21pm on Wednesday
You’re getting a heartshaped bed for your new apartment, aren’t you?
I knew it.
said Casey
at 1:34pm on Wednesday
Congrats on the new appartment, you deserve it. Be blessed man, be blessed.
said Jerrett
at 2:18pm on Wednesday
hmmm…i could spend all of my hard-earned $$$ at Ikea….
congrats on the official hiring….Dec 21…is when I get my official “hiring”…but I have been offered another job elsewhere….in the corporate world…what to do, what to do.
said Whitley
at 3:04pm on Wednesday
I got hired.
I like pie.
I agree with LB.
I am intrigued by ninjas.
But enough about me.
said Jamie
at 4:16pm on Wednesday
Soup :: In :: Pants
said Anthony
at 6:12pm on Wednesday
Dismissed ideas:
ninja :: ninja :: ninja
graphics :: pictures :: beard
rock :: paper :: shivers
said Joshua
Design :: Photography :: HRTBRKr
said Casey
at 6:23pm on Wednesday
Femme Fatale
said Anthony
at 6:39pm on Wednesday
he’s : got : skills
said Paul
at 8:36pm on Wednesday
designer::photographer::mancake
said Katie
at 12:23am on Thursday
ninja :: ninja :::::::::::::::::::::: NINJA!!!
said blaine
at 1:03am on Thursday
That heart-shaped bed had better be a rotating one.
said cameron
at 8:16am on Thursday
Aye… vibrating, rotating, etc. With satin sheets. Satin sheets of love.
It just got weird, didn’t it?
said Joshua
I think “vibrating” made it weird.
However, I have every intention to have satin sheets one day. Yes sir.
said cameron
at 2:16pm on Thursday
satiny :: vibrating :: goodness
said blaine
at 2:29pm on Thursday
hrt :: shpd :: awsmnss
said hynes
at 2:59pm on Thursday
satin :: ninja :: hotulicious
said Jamie
at 4:03pm on Thursday