Miha’s response
I received the following response from Miha via email this morning. Please contribute to the dialog by commenting further!
Miha’s quote begins here:
Thank you John, appreciate! On the other hand i wonder if my contribution to the conference was not taken too much as an “entertainment” ???
There is a problem all software companies share (the “burnout factor” for instance) :
There is nature around us and in us. As soon as one separates electricity out of “Her” and starts developing and intensifying it “downward”, this becomes a “sub-nature”…all the way down to the nano-technology and beyond.
If one starts with the journey of inner human (soul/spirirt) development, one begins climbing creatively above the nature, into the “supra-nature”.
I belive firmly that the “supra-nature” and the “sub-nature” must be in the balance in human life and deeper we go into one, higer we have to strech and develop above into the other one, or we can go sick in various ways.
Poeple working in software industry (and indeed the grat part of the younger generation nowdays) have to constantly live and work in the sub-nature realm and i think the interactive musical process, the way i try to develop it, is one of the ways to gather inner strenght above to cope with below. It stimulates and brings inner life. And of course, as value added, it doesn’t “harm” young people to (re-)discover great classical music as relevant to the preassures of their entrepreneurial persuits?!
I wander if anyone got the understanding of this dimension last Wednesday morning???
www.mihavision.com
August 29th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
I, for one, received a great deal of inspiration and knowledge from Miha’s presentation - well beyond “entertainment”. The entertainment factor kept me glued to the presentation - but was just the icing. Much of what I learned while watching the presentation probably stemmed from my own interpretation of what he said.
For one, he knows the industry, or any industry it seemed - from my experience, there are so many disgruntled, unhappy, complain and moan and complain some more employees within this industry. I feel this is part due to the fact that the Flash industry is part of the emotional “design” industry. We’re surrounded by by great award winning sites, and every Flash designer and developer wants to be a part of that, to be part of a project that is flooded with their own passion and hard work, and see it come to life. But, it’s not always possible: due to budget, companies’ client-base, process and procedure and a zillion other factors. It’s the industry’s passion, when its pushed down and squashed, where a lot of these issues and the unhappiness occurs (imo). However, his presentation said to me: this is the nature of the business, its all part of a path forward, and you need to realize these things, deal with them, and keep going. Also, when he touches on the repetition in Bach, and how that same repetition can exude so many different feelings, ideas, and emotion - while always being the same notes at the root; How many times do we write the same code day in, day out, build another pre-loader, cut a hundred pngs - it’s the same crap, day in and day out, but when compiled it can create something very unique - even though the core items are the same every single time. My two cents - I thought it was great.
September 26th, 2008 at 7:35 am
You are totally right. In my eyes it is just about willingness to break out. I wish every single designer and developer to be happy with his/her job!