FAQ
what’s a creative?
creative (n.) – 1. A person who works in a creative industry, e.g. graphic design, advertising, publishing, writing, (the fun, arty, idea-sy bit not the corporate bullshit statistics-and-marketing bit.)
creative (adj.) – 2. What teachers call you when they don’t want to say you are a dumbass.
so what’s an engineer?
1. engineer (n.) – To the engineer, all matter in the universe can be placed into one of two categories: (1) things that need to be fixed, and (2) things that will need to be fixed after you’ve had a few minutes to play with them. Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems. Normal people don’t understand this concept; they believe that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.”
engineer (n.) – 1 A kick-ass uber-genius with godly math and science abilities, the training for which being at the expense of those abilities for spelling and talking to members of the opposite sex.
huh?
this blog attempts to bridge the gap between two seemingly unlike groups of people. since creatives love coming up with esoteric, abstract and usually “meta” ideas and engineers create stuff from stuff, here we attempt to cross the streams (which in itself was a creative idea from a writer, but probably debunked by some engineer not long after Ghostbusters came out.)