Futureben is becoming talent.
Man I’ve done nothing but crew other people projects for the past year. I’ve been busting ass on the Madagascar spider, Image Node and Tod’s LED sign. All of these are worthy projects, and I learned a lot working on them, but in the end they don’t go into my portfolio. I think I am ready to start working on my own stuff. (Like my graduate school thesis perhaps?) At some point I need to stop being crew and start becoming talent.
Q. “But isn’t ‘talent’ arrogant and generally useless without the crew?” A. Well yes, but usually that’s because the talent was never crew. Often talent is recognized early and saved from grueling labor to live a life of pampering and luxury that ultimately destroys them. But once you have faced all that grunt work that you will one day inflict on the rest of humanity, you feel genuine empathy and are therefore not a total dick.
Q.”Doesn’t talent just party all the time and show up barely able to perform?” A.Of course that’s true, but I have been working myself to the limit and still performing, and the protestant work ethic is anything but punk rock.
Q.”Are you even talented? What the hell do you think you even do.” A.Hey stop yelling at me! I do lot’s of stuff, I just don’t flaunt it. I’m going to go be a mad scientist/dreamer/poet who will resculpt the the world in MY image!
Q. “FutureBen, have you been drinking?!” A. Maybe