make all the dust that you can
The Lost Boy started life as a simple guerilla campaign to pitch myself to other agencies. The situation was/is that I am (to quote an ex-CD) 'an interactive whiz' with a 'good conceptual eye', who is 'very capapble in many areas'. The idea behind The Lost Boy was a series of 'lost boy' posters that'd talk about me, as having been 'last seen as an interactive designer who went looking for an advertising job and hadn't come back home'.
All in all, it looked and sounded like a good idea — a series of posters all over town, a 'bogus website' (at http://www.the-lost-boy.netfirms.com/) and maybe a milk carton with a 'lost person' sticker on it that could be sent to the recruiters.
With every passing week, doubt started to creep in and holes were beginning to show with this idea. They say a weak conceptual idea is like a pavement - doubt, like water, will find all the cracks. And it was discarded 5 weeks after I had written it down on a napkin at The Wine Hut.
There was another problem, too. The more I thought about The Lost Boy idea, the more it seemed like it was manifesting itself from the shocking low level of self-confidence that i was was facing and The Lost Boy was reflecting it.
I couldn't go on with it anymore, so I moved on to trying to think of other ideas. I had to move forward anyway, because there was no turning back.
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