{"id":263,"date":"2006-03-22T21:50:46","date_gmt":"2006-03-23T02:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2006\/03\/22\/why-i-never-throw-anything-away\/"},"modified":"2006-03-22T21:50:46","modified_gmt":"2006-03-23T02:50:46","slug":"why-i-never-throw-anything-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/263","title":{"rendered":"Why I never throw anything away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">March experiment&#8212;day twenty-one&#8212;<\/span> Having my morning schedule play out with precision was a source of encouragement, but that was followed by another chaotic stint in the studio. That&#8217;s what happens when a client calls and asks you to work with ten-year-old files as if they were created last week. Nevertheless, there were solid insights to gain from the contrast of an impending deadline and the all-too-typical, wild-card elements that seem to inevitably insert themselves into the day. Well, I don&#8217;t remember which famous general said that even the best battle plan doesn&#8217;t survive first contact with the enemy, but the last couple days have driven home the point for me. Not that my clients are the enemy&#8212;far from it&#8212;but you&#8217;ll probably catch my train of thought. The focus of my 30-day experiment is enabling me to examine dynamics that have always been too obvious to scrutinize. Interesting.\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Today&#8217;s sight bite&#8212;<\/span> Taking a mental break with page after page of exquisite narrative graphics<span style=\"font-style: italic\">&#8212;c-l-i-c-k, c-l-i-c-k, c-l-i-c-k&#8212;<\/span>temporarily immersed in the flowing talent of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rodguen.com\/girls\/SWIM-couleurs-3COMP.jpg\">Rudolphe Guenoden<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boltcity.com\/workshop\/copper_tutorial\/\">Kazu Kibuishi<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giuseppeferrario.com\">Giuseppe Ferrario<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.froghatstudios.com\">Chris Appelhans<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justinridge.com\/Final Images\/Gallery\/Characters\/Characterspage08.htm\">Justin Ridge<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mapage.noos.fr\/herval\/\">Herval<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Tomorrow&#8212;<\/span> Mares and foals&#8230; foals and mares&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March experiment&#8212;day twenty-one&#8212; Having my morning schedule play out with precision was a source of encouragement, but that was followed by another chaotic stint in the studio. That&#8217;s what happens when a client calls and asks you to work with ten-year-old files as if they were created last week. Nevertheless, there were solid insights to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,26,16,6,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}