nineteen-eighty four
ishmael
brave new world
my ishmael
the story of b
the masterpiece
one flew over the cuckoos nest
the stranger
siddhartha
the catcher in the rye
I smoke cigarettes and drink beer, don't bitch at me about it.
I love graphic design, photography, and the arts - mainly digital forms such as photomanipulation and illustration, as well as combining those and forming mixed media pieces. I am well versed in both Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Dreamweaver CS3; I'm currently studying in Final Cut Pro, and hope to soon learn more about Flash.
I own and operate a freelance design studio: PROGIKTdesign
I attend Westwood College in Ft. Worth in an effort to earn my Associates in Applied Science Degree in Graphic Design & Multimedia. I am just more than half-way through my eight terms and should graduate around the end of July '09 - just after I turn 23 ><
After college I plan on [eventually] moving to New York City in hopes of obtaining a career in the graphic arts and advertising industry.
I have a child, her name is Mackie. She is a Macbook Pro 17in, Mac OS X, 2.5GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM. I love her more than [almost] anything in the world. She is my present hope, and my future career.
I love to write. Poems, expressive-word, fiction.
I am currently working on a fictional novel entitled, "They Call Me David", and you can find a few excepts from it in my blog. The story follows David through a terrifying religious and psychological experience in a near-future society where the entire nation is Christian. David struggles to find reasoning behind what the government and his fellow man tell him, and his questioning is considered blasphemous. In a country where free speech now has certain limitations and Christianity is deemed absolute fact, David's quest for freedom-of-thought and individuality take him through a dangerously compelling and dramatic journey.
Here is a quick excerpt from the working manuscript:
“We as Christians believe that God is eternally existent, meaning that God exists in an alternate reality or conceptualization of time – eternity. That is to say that God has always existed, is existing and will always exist. That God exists within human nature’s correspondence of time, but outside human comprehension. Meaning that God created Life inside a set barrier of time; however, is observant and omnipotent outside the barrier at the same time.”
My head was spinning.
“How is this possible?” I asked. “How can an entity exist eternally through all aspects of time? How can a being continue persistently since when and until forever again?”
The man, again, sighed.
“Oh, David… You are asking all the wrong kinds of questions. In fact, you should not be disputing this at all. You must have Faith and simply believe what is put forth here.”
“Why?”
He shot me a look of disgust. That question seemed to spark a sense of distrust in him. He looked upon me with those luminous green eyes for a few moments, coupled with multiple sighs.
“David, you must not ask such a thing.”
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There was an acrid silence in the room for a few minutes; I could taste it on my dry and cracking lips. The doctor sat there in his wooden chair, staring at me intently. I tried hard not to make direct eye contact; however, the more I tried to keep my focus forward, the harder it became to look away from him. I fully knew that only a few moments had passed, though with the wretched stench of the prolonged silence, it felt like years had gone by.
“So…”
“Yes, David?”
“You are telling me that I am not at liberty to question Christianity? That is what you just said to me, right?”
“Yes, David, you are absolutely correct. Once you question the very beliefs of the system, then the system itself fails to exist. You cannot simply ask this or that out of curiosity, you must be steadfast in the Faith and believe.”
“…Blindly, I assume?”
“You are not blind if you believe, David. Believing is simply a feeling of assurance in what is true. That Christianity is the absolute truth and anything but that is blasphemy, a sin in it’s own right. In a way, having Faith is clarity in your sight, whereas questioning, in fact, is blinding. Does that make sense?”