November 14, 2007
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The personal web site of Kidrobot founder and president Paul Budnitz.
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The Sucklord Feb 08 NEW!eBoy Dec 07
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Core 77 Podcast Nov 07AIGA Denver Podcast Nov 07
7 comments:
So,...this is presumptious and probably the wrong place to pose such a question,...but,...never-the-less.
I'm an artist/toy collector, researching how to get a figure made of a character I've created. The Gorillaz toys are the coolest I've seen in terms of sculpt and paint job. If I couldn't get that quality,...I'd just as soon not do it. I'm surmising, from what I've read that your company, Kidrobot, is responsible for these toys. Is there a place to contact you or your company to discuss such a thing?
Thanks.
Steve Taylor
New Orleans
Hey Paul,
Its Joe if you remember me from the event, if you dont heres a picture you guys posted on the events page at kidrobot.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/kidrobotrules/2024702932/in/set-72157603176158478/
Haha me asking the dreaded apparel question.
Anyway I just wanted to say thanks again for taking the time to talk to a fan and provide great insight into the world you love and have taught so many to love, THE TOY WOLRD!!!
-Joe
Hi Joe,
It was great meeting you and it was a great question. Thank you for your support!
Paul
Hi Steve,
Yes! We made the Gorillaz toys. Kidrobot accepts submission at submissions@kidrobot.com. We're a small company so please be patient if it takes a little while to get back to you!
:x]
Paul
Mr. Budnitz,
Thank you so much for your response. I am encouraged and I truly appreciate the info.
Be seeing you.
Steve Taylor
Hi Paul,
It was great hearing you speak at the core77 event. I specifically liked your slide on the decline of creativity as a function of age/ego development. You can check out my brief review of the event on my blog.
When I introduced myself after the event you mentioned that there's much more where that came from - any chance of you sharing it on this blog?
p.s. - were you in on the Tobias Wong identity joke?
Hi Miki,
Thank you for your note.
Many people have the experience that we have an idea, it doesn't matter if it's a terrible idea or a brilliant idea. We present the idea to somebody else, who immediately shoots it down, and in the moment we quickly come to the conclusion, "I'm a bad person, I suck, I'm stupid", or something like that. In fact that conclusion is entirely false and has nothing to do with the idea we put out there.
It has to do with the fact that at some point in our lives, we discovered that if people we love don't approve of something that we do, we're a bad person. Another way of saying this is we're not really responding to what is REALLY GOING ON in that moment. We're responding to some collection of past events, maybe from early childhood, that our mind is imposing on the present.
There are all kinds of reasons why this happens, mostly having to do with a kind of survival instinct that all animals and humans have, which we are misplacing. My experience is that it is sometimes useful to work on this in a psychological way directly within ourselves, but it is just as often to not worry about where this comes from, and instead just to notice this in ourselves. Through self-observation we begin to see these games that our minds are playing on us, and that essentially rule our lives.
I am referencing this in the area of creativity, because it's an area I know a lot about through experience, but this survival instinct and our minds' misuse of past experience really permiates all aspects of our lives.
We can be more free, including be more free to create, when we learn to recognize the times when we are reacting to something that doesn't really exist in the moment, here and now. And then we must learn to act on that, which can be even more challenging.
Paul
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