" I'm as angry as hell and I ain't gonna take this any more"

oookay, this isn't going to be TOO much of a rant.... Probably.

I'm going to talk about something that's really bugging me in my work.

Confrontation.

Everything that I've done so far has been a little too easy, a little too nice.

I want my imagery to have an edge... I want it to ask questions... I want it to take the comfort zone and throw it into a massive furnace labelled BALLS...

So how do I achieve this... I am after all, a pretty laid back reasonable human being...  perhaps, with a penchant for asking questions... aren't we all?

I'm old.. yes.. but I still have a fire in my belly... I still want to tell the world how it is.... or how I see it?

When I was younger I wanted to make an impact..I wanted to to be somebody...the dream?..... validation through what I do.

As I got older and had a little bit of the shit kicked out of me, I started to understand how things worked... you have to fight.. which is not to say necessarily go looking for trouble... but don't take everything that your told.

We work... or want to work in a visual and descriptive led world... is the pinnacle of what we can achieve the x factor? or Twilight or the only way is essex?... to my mind bland and very ordinary... possibly easy targets? but still relying on a very stagnant and repetitive commercial concept....

I should be looking much further afield... at the work of the risk takers.. the big thinkers... those that don't want to follow the mould... that want to ask questions...

I feel my imagery should be so much more than just a pretty picture of a flower... or possibly a beautiful location... or this years hot pop star/ actress, or god forbid, reality TV star, looking cool.... it should ask why that is the norm?... it should look at those not deemed worthy of so called adulation.. people... or at the very least challenge those that are, and what makes them seem so worthy of it....

anyway to finish.... we didn't get to be at the top of the food chain to be so bloody bland...

This post was brought to you today by me watching this..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgOWTM5R2DA