Today, I spoke to the graduate students at VCU Adcenter about what we at Green Team are doing, and where we hope to collectively go. Now I’ve given this spiel before at FIT, the One Club and AIGA. But today I tried something different. Rather than opening as the “I knew about sustainability before you so stick your head in compost doodoo” eco-friendly communication expert, I opened as the schmuck from Fort Lauderdale who stumbled into this whole thing by accident. And it felt damn good.
It was a nice reminder, even for myself, of where I came from and how far I have to go. Sure I’ve achieved some great things and traveled to some great places. (Six years ago I had yet to live alone, yet to vote, yet to leave the country, and most importantly, yet to produce an ad.) But being around the energy of the students and their campus here at VCU reminded me of why I got into this whole thing in the first place–to create. So as nice as it is traveling and speaking about what I’ve been doing, it’s time to cut back on the speaking and really up the doing. (That is unless you’re an agency big wig who’s running a school or a creative institution, then I’m more than available.)
I want to give a special thanks to Karen for inviting me, and to David Byrd for picking me up from the airport and showing me around his school and city. He might think I was there to inspire him, but it was actually quite the opposite. David and his friends Beth, Brian and yet another David inspired me. A short evening with: two designers, a painter, a journalist, supposedly bad pasta salad and even worse karaoke were exactly what the “I don’t know, I’m just not feeling into it what I’ve been doing lately” doctor ordered.
Click the thumbnail to view the opening slide of my presentation.
I always find joy in the doing too!!! Glad to see that you are doing the same. Have fun and enjoy the experiences. Take Care
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