I’m getting this piece out late, my apologies up front. I have been busy. This is a good thing. Busy is good. But, busy and making money is even better.
Making these seemingly divergent poles come together - often enough to be a profitable entity - is the key to keeping the home fires burning, the ideas flowing and being so excited about getting back in the saddle each day.
We all need incentives to get us going at times; more than at others. And most people - even those like myself, who really enjoy working in the shadows, listening to my own brand of music while I write, design and plan - need to get out and have contact with others of the same interests.
Creativity in a vacuum just becomes stale after a while.
And the designer - no matter how big, influential, successful and all the other adjectives used to describe some of our ‘elites - who says they work without ‘contact’ with others, is fooling themselves; but not other designers. There is no such thing as a vacuum. We are all influenced by outside influences. Granted, some people need more human contact (aka: support) than others. Regardless, we all need contact.
This is where Meetup comes to play.
Meetup offers a convenient platform, in a friendly, warm atmosphere that is relaxed and - hopefully - conducive to flow.
Meetup offers a chance to meet new people; new ideas; new opportunities. New people are new ears and new conversations. New people mean new excitement.
Meetup offers the opportunity to take your work, efforts and plans to another level. To try out ideas and concepts that have just been waiting for an opportunity to burst forth. All they need is the opportunity.
It was for this very reason that I started the i65 New Media series of Meetups. I saw a need for a public platform, covering two areas of interest, where I work and thoroughly enjoy: Graphic Design and Digital Photography.
Today we have seen the marriage of these two areas into what is called, New Media. That New Media designation entails all that is visually creative and the technologies to conceive, create, develop, distribute and enjoy them - as in no other way or time - in the history of mankind. And we have access to it here, now and in full-tow!
An i65 New Media Meetup meeting allows interested parties a common platform to share, learn and network within their own field of expertise, interest and need. i65 New Media offers new channels to share and learn, among the myriad of paths between the multiple disciplines found in the New Media.
This is, to me, the most exciting part of an i65 New Media Meetup meeting: finding new paths and making new connections.
So, I encourage all members of i65 New Media to come out for the meetings - to see who else is in your ‘neighborhood’ with shared interests. You never know until you step out and see.
I also invite all those who read this (in the Mid-North Indiana I-65 corridor) - and are not currently members of Meetup or i65 New Media, to come check us out. Your first visit to i65 New Media is ‘on-the-house’. See if i65 New Media is a good fit for you.
We feel that no matter your status, professional or rank amateur, if you have an interest in New Media, you will find i65 New Media, engaging and worth your time. You’ll never know, though, until you ‘check us out’.
So … Step Out and Take a Look. Attend the Meetup Meetings … today!
i65NMD
