Mario Breskic : Social Wall

Meine Social‑Media‑Beiträge – offen und ohne Anmeldung

  • This isn’t a first. This is not even one of the firsts. But I hope that it is the first next.

    Hello, my name is Mario and I want to communicate better than I did before.

    So now I want to put myself right. I want to know what I’m saying, so that you know what it is I’m saying. I used to make lists of things I’m not, and then write those lists out. Thinking about that, it makes me wonder if I then claimed to be all the things but those I said I wasn’t?

    If I never said I wasn’t a hare, how would you know?

    And if I was a hare, wouldn’t it be nice to just say that?

    I’m a graphic designer. Making graphics interests me. I study to learn how to make better graphics than I did before. I struggle with applying more time towards that goal. I am interested in fantasy and sci‑fi illustrations, especially that sweet spot occupied by book covers, be they books or graphic novels/comics.

    I’ve learnt a lot during my years studying for my degree, but I feel dissatisfied with my own knowledge: I think I know too little, and I suspect that I am alone in this among my fellow students from years past.

    I want this blog to serve the purpose of communicating what it is I am doing, what I am studying at the moment, to honestly leave a trail and I cringe at that thought: maybe years of being a punk have left me with an unhealthy view of working? But that is why I wanted this, why I even brainstormed a name for this blog, a name different from my own name: to maybe work through this strange feeling of lacking the knowledge, the craftsmanship, the skill, the talent, to really feel like a graphic designer.

    And maybe arrive at a new understanding of myself and what it is I want. I tried being cool online when it was all about coming off as cool. I tried self‑marketing, and I quickly quit doing that, because, you know, that too felt as fake as trying to be cool. Couple of other things, burnt out on these too.

    And now? Now I want to communicate with my own voice. I wonder what that’s like.

    I put together my study plan for this week, and I managed to study three days out of six so far. Imagine, before I put that into words, on my screen, I’ve felt like a failure because of that. I tend to ignore the sheer amount of stress and maintenance in my life, so when my own lofty plans for myself do not succeed completely, I beat myself up over that. I think some people call that perfectionism, but I think that is just a noun meaning many things to many people.

    I think my issue is my own inexperience with dealing with myself in a constructive manner that’s holding me back.

    This is still my first life, so I want to keep the study going. I don’t know if I want to work as an illustrator but I sure would like to be able to capture someone’s likeness and communicate an emotion.

    To me, graphic design is what I do. Not only what I do, but also. Maybe that is a good way for me to look at what it is I am doing and how I’m doing it. And now I want to know what is next.

    Some graphic designers have all the talent. Some are in magazines. Some drive nice cars, and like sports.

    I like to study design, and do studies. The world just might be large enough for me to allow myself to exist as such a designer as I am.

    Consider this me turning on my own lighthouse. Who knows for whose benefit? Who cares? Right now, this is for my own benefit.

    I just know that I need to be myself. Kind of forced to, really.

    Source: My after‑hours blog on Tumblr Code & Canvas

  • I’ve pulled away from social media throwing things my way: the distraction is mostly fueled by ennui , what my edition of Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English defines as a “weariness of mind caused by lack of any interesting occupation”, and I can’t deal with that anymore. That, and because everything on social media is an ad: there might not be a product being sold, but the advertism as a style is firmly in place there. You might have noticed. You might have your own words for that, too.

    So here is how this will go: I have a few good ideas about how to go about studying graphic design for the next few months.

    I will invest time in finding out what a couple of books I have have to say about how to study successfully.

    I have already my bachelor’s degree, but I have noticed that I need to know and understand way more than was needed to pass my classes and grades.

    So, after a good nine months of figuring things out, after my defense, I am writing this to let you know that I am starting now. This is what studying for adults can look like. Expect chaos.

    This project will run for a few months, up until mid­‑April, so there will be weekly posts like this one, each Saturday. Why?

    Because I care.

    Next week is all about finding out how many hours a day I can realistically study, what I need to take notes, and how to stay away from said ennui. And I’ll start right away, reading up on how to use my time‑keeping software, Focus To‑Do. Next Saturday I should have a working schedule in place for studying. And maybe I can afford to rid myself of constant imbroglio.

    Source: My after‑hours blog on Tumblr Code & Canvas

  • @mariobreskic ↩️:

    Of course drawing and its pompous sibling also can afford us with that same toolkit, but I honestly have never thought of drawing and painting in such a way before: to me, they were both about creating what isnʼt/wasnʼt there before. Am I making sense or is this sleep-deprived crazy talk? asca

    Source: My Threads Account Mario Breskic

  • @mariobreskic:

    The existence of software like Blender has given us all the opportunity to recreate our memories of spaces by creating a representative of these spaces. I keep coming back to this idea, because it goes beyond a ready-made sort of photography, with props and abstractions. I find that neat. asca

    Source: My Threads Account Mario Breskic

  • No luck, restrictions in place, workaround takes too much effort as a workaround. Will wait for #ifttt fix #asca

    Source: My Twitter Account Mario Breskic

  • Instagram is offline for #ifttt due to changes to the Instagram API.
    I will try working around this using #rsshub in the same way I use RSSHub for my Threads account. #asca

    Source: My Twitter Account Mario Breskic

  • @mariobreskic:

    Art and design are businesses. I believe that this is not trivially arrived at in terms of understanding what this means for artists and designers because I myself was having a hard time understanding what this means. asca

    Source: My Threads Account Mario Breskic

  • Decided to spend the next few hours or days curating my library further. I am using Zotero for this, and after having added a few books over the years, there are a lot of tags in my library I have no use for.

    These tags have been added automatically, since I mostly add books by International Standard Book Number. So when I add a book to my Zotero library, it also adds all the tags someone has added to the database entry for that book. So, this is what I now deal with:

    Working with the web version of Zotero is faster, if you ask me.

    My system is really simple: I remove all the tags, and then add my own.

    I will then continue working through all of my graphic design study literature in the same way I have done before. With a bit of perseverance, I might be done with that by the end of the week.

    Source: My after‑hours blog on Tumblr Code & Canvas

  • Ich habs doch gesagt. Nachdem ich alle alten Ausgaben verschenkt hatte, blieb ein Tōa-Schwerindustrie-großes Loch in meiner Designerpsyche.Natürlich beim Fantasy-Store meines Vertrauens gekauft: Fantasy Strongpoint in Böblingen.

    Sieht cool aus. Print bleibt Königsklasse.

    #toaheavyindustries #tohaheavyindustries #tsutomunihei #comicbook #hardcover

    Source: My Instagram account Mario Breskic

  • Hey @jkantel Danke für die Inspiration. Auch wenn man sich nicht persönlich kennt, hilft es doch enorm, dass man von jemandem weiß, der auch einfach aus Neugier forscht und baut #asca

    Source: My Twitter Account Mario Breskic