Finding a Full Time Job is a Full Time Job

Good god. It has been crazy recently.
My mum who is now my agent, has been talking to her friends left and right because she is AMAZING! She has recently put me in contact with her best friends' brothers and sisters and cousins best friends, etc. And I have been accumulating contacts left and right. But it has been so good on the networking front, that it has been really hard to keep up. Emailing these people, responding to emails, sending websites and follow ups. My head is spinning like Beetlejuice.

But it could be worse and I could have no one to contact or email or send follow ups to. So I am saying, let's keep this up. If you can't run the marathon don't enter the race.

Finding Water in the Desert

So I'm starting to churn the butter in the networking world, by looking for any sort of connections I can get my hands on. And I have to say I started off pretty pessimistic.

Why? Well off the top of my head I don't really know anyone that works in the advertising industry that is in my family or friends of our family. My father is a general manager for a labels manufacturer and my mother is an independent contractor, that works with a real estate agency. So at first my perspective was blique.

But I've recently become aware of the power of networking. It truely is a majestic thing. For instance my girlfriend has an aunt in Rhode Island, who is best friends with an Account Executive at an agency in Chicago. Or My mum and dad live down the street from a woman who's neice works for an shop in Chicago, who then forwarded my site onto her design friend. TRUELY AMAZING.

All I have to say is, don't underestimate networking. Because even though you may think you're in the desert, but it turns out you're really surrounded by water if you look hard anough.

The Epic Journey to colinpaulmurphy.com

It is March 24, 2009 and now I can finally start networking.

But you think, "Wait a second mister, you should have been networking a long time ago." I would answer I have, but not "really" networking. I feel networking doesn't really happen once you face the inevitable monster, that is creating your own website. Once that happens you can send out your work as easy as JELL-O (because easy as pie, really isn't that easy).

And I have finally defeated that monster with an axe called Dreamweaver CS3 and an arrow called Flash CS3, because my website is up AND running smoothly.

(It's been up for about a week and a half or so, but it was not even close to being "ready". I had a whole bunch of small "detailed" problems that I became aware of every time someone had a complaint. But all of the major ones are fixed.)

So today is the GRAND OPENING of colinpaulmurphy.com.
If this were an actual, physical place there would be giant inflatable gorillas floating around with confetti and streamers filling the air while a professional marching band plays Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture.
But it's not, so I guess this post will have to do.

So now I can begin networking... Does anyone need a copywriter or art director?

Messin with Fire

My Redbull campaign was finally done.

I finished designing my final print component and I was ready to show the world my amazing campaign that would get everyone in the world to drink Redbull. So I posted it on this blog and ihaveanidea.org.

Just a side story about ihaveanidea. Ihaveanidea.com has an open forum where students post work and anyone, usually people in the industry, can make anonymous comments. This is a website that I have to say is a necessary evil. Even though a lot of people are ruthless and spare no sugar coating, they do know what they are saying. This is why I post everything I can on there. To see how my work fares against the hungry wolves.

So I go back to my first sentence, "My Redbull campaign was finally done" where there is a keyword that pains me to say but is true, "was".

My Redbull campaign is no longer done. Actually it is no longer even close to being done because I have to completely re-execute everything. After reading the comments on my work on how the style has been done 1000x and the line has been executed before, verbatim, I knew what was inevitable.

But I am not mad, sometimes you have to swallow the medicine now because it will make you better in the end. So now I am back to the sweatshop. But next time, it will be done...hopefully.