realityisdead

Seriously.

Yeah, heh. I was definitely jaded. Again, written like 3 years ago, I was frustrated with a lot of indivuduals and saw, what looked like to me, a lot of people doing stuff just to create a big-shot name for themselves instead of for the love and passion of the art. Was I right, wrong? Dunno, I never got that close to any of them, but I'm guessing you're mostly on the right track and that they were probably cool guys. You mentioned competition too, and I just wanted to point out how valuable I feel friendly, constuctive one-upsmanship is to improving yourself. It happened between myself, andrew, and others on NS, and still happens at work now. I think that pushed the quality level of the maps that much further in both instances.

It was an article I wrote 3 years ago while still working on Natural Selection. I think you guys are taking the PHL thing too literally. I didn't intend to imply that you should keep yourself "secret" or literally avoid showcasing your work on sites like a Planet site or whatever... that would be insane. The whole idea is to share your work - and if looking for a job, get noticed - right? It was mostly written, specifically directed at the natural selection mapping community, with the intent to hopefully gear people away from the elitist attitude that was starting to become rampant at the time. My point was in dealing with the attitudes of members in the community towards others, and how they went about achieving publicity, not that publicity was bad in itself or something to avoid.... I guess you had to be there? Heh. I just think the article - or rant, really - is being taken a bit out of context. It’s really old and cheesy too. Thanks for the mention though! It's cool that people actually got something from reading it, positive or negative.

Is this it? http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0688099866/104-8878113-3659921?v=glance It's called Round Trip. Cool pictures, nexus. I like the depth in the first one. Ken