Gimme a deadline, any deadline, and I’ll slide under the gate as it’s closing to deliver whatever it is I’ve just finished, after having procrastinated until the night before. Do I love the fear of maybe not making it? No! Then what? Having important work to do is the only time I actually feel like doing housework/matching jars to lids/pairing socks/sewing up hems instead of stapling them. God, recently I even weeded to avoid work.
The disappointing side of this apparently common habit is that I also procrastinate about doing work I like, and that’s just dumb. So even though I had 2 months to work on a bookmark design for The Book Depository’s competition, I still left it until the night before I had to drive up the stinking Hume Highway to my Mum’s for Xmas.
But wait – it gets dumber. I decided to create my image by almost pure collage – intricate, tiny collage requiring tweezers and patience I only have when I shouldn’t. Even the fact that when I looked at the final image I realised I could have created it in photoshop in a quarter of the time didn’t phase me – it might be indiscernible to the naked eye, but that background is one complete piece of tissue paper with letters cut out. Wacky! And stupid.
I pompously sent it off to the UK only to be bitterly disappointed a month later to discover that not only did I not win, a bunch of bozos did. Meh/whatevs/talk to the hand. I’m using it as the first of the bookmark and postcard designs I’ll be selling here in my soon-to-be-opened on-line Patsyfox shop, so I guess I’m a winner after all.
If you make it to the exhibition, please do justify my old-school ways by getting up close and noticing all the teeny pieces.
{ 4 comments }
danielle 03.08.10 at 11:48 pm
I want one. NOW. My take-away chop stick plastic bag cover thingy isn’t quite doing it for me as a bookmark. 🙂
Mary 03.09.10 at 12:44 am
You totally should have won that. The winning entries are beyond meh. I am outraged!
Patsyfox 03.09.10 at 3:59 am
Why thank you – I agree!
Patsyfox 03.09.10 at 4:00 am
Ha ha, I’ll get right on that production then. : )
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