03.03.2025 – 2125

FIRSTLY, THE TERM ‘MADNESS’ SHOULD BE USED IN CONTEXT WITH A SPACE YOU CAN TAKE YOURSELF, TO BE WITH YOURSELF. A SPACE OF CONTEMPLATION. KIND OF LIKE SUPERMAN’S ‘FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE’ OR THE 1960’S TV SERIES’ GET SMART’S ‘CONE OF SILENCE’, HAPPY GILMORE’S ‘HAPPY PLACE’ OR LIKE READING A BOOK OR PLAYING A GAME OR SOMETHING. (HOPEFULLY BY THE END OF THE YEAR I WILL HAVE WORKED OUT THE SWEET SPOT OF COMPARISONS TO MAKE BEFORE I’M EXPLAINING HOW TO READ THIS TEXT).

YES, IT DOES SOUND LESS MAD WHEN YOU PUT IT THAT WAY.

ANYWAY, I WANT TO USE THIS MONTH TO DEMONSTRATE MY MADNESS TO THE PLIGHT. THE NECESSITY AND INSPIRATION TO THE WORK I PRODUCE AND THE REASON FOR ALL OF THIS REFLUX. IM USING ‘MADNESS’ AS THE CATALYST FOR THIS AS THERES A LAYER OF OBSESIVENESS THAT I FIND NEEDS TO BE SEEN IN ALL CREATIVE PROCESSES. THIS IS WHERE THE LAYERS OF AUTHENTICITY ARE EXPOSED IN THE WORK. THE MORE LAYERS, THE MORE PAGES TO THE STORY.. KIND OF LIKE THE MOVIE SHREK AND THE LINE ABOUT ONIONS AND OGRE’S…

P.S.

THE COVER GRID ABOVE ^ THAT I ASKED THE AI TEMPLATE GENERATOR TO MAKE LOOKS PRETTY CLEAN TOO. DEFINITELY NOT MADE WITH MADNESS THAT’S FOR SURE… (the links work too!)

04.03.2025 – 2100

05.03.2025 – 1836

OK, LET’S BEGIN.

I FOUND MY ‘MADNESS’ PRETTY EARLY IN LIFE. POKEMON. YES, THE LARGEST FRANCHISE IN THE WORLD WHERE YOU COLLECT AND FIGHT WITH MONSTERS. CREATED IN JAPAN, KNOWN AS POCKET MONSTERS.

ANYWAY. THIS WAS MY ‘FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE’ GROWING UP. ALONG WITH MOST OTHER THINGS ASCOCIATED WITH THE GENRE (WE’LL GET INTO THAT LATER THIS MONTH).

This wont be a late 90’s nostalgia content dump I promise…

HOW DOES THIS RELATE TO DESIGN THOUGH?

THERE ARE HEAPS OF ‘FRIDGE QUOTES’ TALKING ON ‘REPETITION IN A FIELD = MASTERY ETC.’ SO I WONT USE THAT AS THE EXAMPLE, (HAVE IT IN THE BACK OF YOUR MIND THOUGH) AND IF YOU’RE COMPETITIVE LIKE ME AND ALSO CAN’T PLAY A SPORT, THEN YOU WILL PROBABLY HAVE FOUND YOURSELF IN A SIMILAR REALM OF COMPETITION WITH YOUR MIND. THE OUTLET, OR IN THIS CASE, THE ‘MADNESS’ FOR ME IS FOUND IN EXCERSIZING THIS.

let’s describe this with a visual too…

42 HOURS WERE SPENT HERE. I CAN’T REMEMBER WHEN, AND I CANT REMEMBER HOW OLD I WAS EITHER, BUT CURRENTLY ON THIS CARTRIDGE (SAME BATTERY FROM OVER 20 YEARS AGO) THERE IS RECORD OF A ‘PETER’ SPENDING 42 HOURS HERE. AND HE DIDNT EVEN FINISH THE GAME…

06.03.2025 – 0819

THERE’S AN OPTION TO START A NEW GAME. WILL ERASING THE 42 HOURS ERASE THE FACT THAT ‘PETER’ PLAYED 42 HOURS OF THIS GAME AT SOME POINT IN TIME?

“IF A TREE FALLS IN THE FOREST AND NO ONE IS AROUND TO HEAR IT, DOES IT MAKE A SOUND?”

I DON’T KNOW HOW ACCURATE THE QUOTE IS BUT THEY TALK ABOUT IT IN THIS OLD BOOK BELOW. PICTURE IS FROM WIKIPEDIA, I DON’T OWN THE BOOK. HAVEN’T READ IT EITHER.

06.03.2025 – 1838

AM I JUST DELAYING STARTING A NEW GAME IN THE FEAR I WONT BE ABLE TO REACH THE SCORE THIS RANDOM ‘PETER’ GUY MADE? OR WILL I DO IT FASTER AND ACTUALLY COMPLETE IT?

IS THE MASTERY IN THE REPETITION WE FEAR?…

30.03.2025 – 2028

MARCH MADNESS COMES TO A CLOSE.

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what? 24 days between posts? what happened??? where was this going? and still, what relevance does this have to chaos & creative process??

oh that’s right, the new game. To be honest I haven’t even turned the Color on since 04.03.2025 – 2100

I was doing this instead.

I do this a lot.

Maybe I like to go to my ‘Madness’ a lot.

Maybe I did turn the Colour on after all…

Anyway, this helps me do stuff like this.

and this…

and this.

ok one more.

SPEND YOUR TIME SURROUNDING YOURSELF WITH YOUR ‘MADNESS’ WHATEVER IT MIGHT BE. USE THE COLOUR YOU SEE THERE TO INSPIRE ELEMENTS EXTERNAL TO THE TASK IN FRONT OF YOU. A FIELD OF ROSES CAN INSPIRE A RED BRICK WALL JUST LIKE AN ALAKAZAM GOLD STAR CAN INSPIRE A LANDSCAPE.

OK IM TIRED. MARCH WAS LONG. BUT WHAT HAPPEN’S WHEN YOU CANT SEE THE COLOUR? HOW DO WE DESIGN WITHOUT IT?

AND WHAT DID YOU END UP DESIGNING THIS MONTH PETER?