Small Places : Nick L Belardes [23 of 128]

• I'll think up copy for an ad, sure. This industry is so C3PO. We help protocols speak to each other. He was a protocol droid.
• We translate. We can buildicon that gizmo. We can help protocols speak to one another.
• Only, like C3PO, I can't help but feel impending doom when I think.
• Eight.
• The day I saw boxes filled with pink sponge packaging I stared in wonder at the little rectangles. Here was my temporary answer to fun.
• Most corporate folk consider 'fun' a ludicrous non-serious detrimental work behavior.
• Creative marketing people are freaks who live for fun. Fun: more than just ball-game beer. Sorry to offend you simpletons.
• Fun is a complex process often meaning hyperfocusing on the mundane. There is something inherently appealing in a block of pink sponge.
• In and of itself it has no real value other than as a packaging product. You stuff them into empty spaces in boxes.
• They fill voids. Yet I see living shapes. I decide the sponge rectangles will make nice puppets.