Tom Pearson's Multimedia

First of all I'm not writing about the ecology of animals, rather more about the creative field of work. This book by Jim Shorthose was on the reading list last term. Actually scrub that, no it wasn't. It was recommended by my lecturer to be used whilst I was writing my essay about networking. Unfortunately due to such high demand and only 3 copies in the library I was only able to read the 3 hour loan version and I didn't get too far on the one. Oh well.

After numerous requests it finally came in with the New Year commencing and I have only just got my hands on it a few days ago. So I thought I'd post a little about it.


I'm now about 50 dense pages in. Although not a long book it is fairly solid with text and pretty pictures. The concepts it comes up with are good and these are relevant. These are relevant because the book was produced with the Nottingham Creative Network in mind. It gives good foundations for business plans, networking and being successful in the creative field also referred to as the "weightless industry" due to the fact that creativity is a weightless thing (ideas and concepts).

One thing I’ll pick out since this was meant to be a short post about the book and not an in depth review. An issue of working for the industry is that you can lose creative focus. Shaping your own autonomous work made with your own personal motivation can be a beautiful thing. However it is sometimes required to bend the work for commercial success. I think it is very important to keep individuality and autonomy in creativity for work to stay partly unique. Although almost all work is not original, it is possible to have an edge.

Any who, got to get back to finishing this book. Laters