Last month over 40 000 people visited my new digi-gallery, simppa.fi cosmos.
The FWA: Favourite Website Awards marked it as a site of the day 23.5.2006. Few days ago it earned a Dope award and I just received an email that tells me it is also a site of the today at Coolstop. I’ve received a huge stack of comments and many people have seemed to enjoyed their visit. It makes me feel happy! :)
I hope it’ll get some more recognitions so the link will spread more. I’m trying to find energy and time to create a handy way to answer and control the comments. For all of you that have asked me to response to your matter, I promise I’ll do so soon.
I’m not one of the greatest artists this global contains, but I have my principles as an artist and one of them is to offer community my perspectives and ideas from time to time. I could just spent my energy on doing money and would probably collect a “respectable” pile of currency in twenty years. For some reason that wouldn’t give me such a pleasure as comments like “This is quite a site. Inspiring.” does.
I’m not a saint, actually I feel like a monster. I do my living on whoring for advertisement industry. I give my talent, skills and youth for increasing consumption. I’m highly hypocritical person. I preach about how the over consuming will destroy our planet and still I support my living by increasing it. I’m a pitiful small human being like everyone else. :(
Eh, aren’t we all? I think most people who work in this industry have this problem in common. I hate advertisement but I love design, and I love the Internet as a medium. I couldn’t imagine working in any other field, design is and has been an important part of my life since I was small. I guess finding a job in a web agency that creates websites for large corporations but doesn’t do the actual mindfsck-ads is a good balance I have found.
I like your cosmos, but I don’t have time to sit and wait for all the animation. while i appreciate it from an exploratory standpoint, i wish there were a way to scroll through your work quicker, as that to me is way cooler than zooming in and out of an art filled solarsystem of dots. i spend more time watchign dots than looking at your work. i think i looked at 5 pieces, and now i am tired of it and leaving unfortunately, when i want to see more.