Event 2

11/23/15

I went to Getting Away With Shit: Real Talk with Timothy Goodman on 11/23/15. This event was about designer Timothy Goodman talking about his life's work. He told us that he was from New York, he was not around his father much, and he used to be quite the little trouble maker. He told us some things that he liked like dick jokes, swearing, stand up comedy, hip hop music, and of course design. He used to work for Apple but then he saw a design that just looked like a scribble and he thought that it was incredible that someone got payed just to paint shit on a wall. He asked someone once what do they do with their job and they replied, "whatever I can get away with." That was incredibly inspiring to him and to the audience of the event including me. The 6 rules to this were to know the rules, have some audacity, don't ask for permission but ask for forgiveness, listen to yourself, get into your work, be curious and stay young. Then he showed off his work. He showed us a CNNpolitics.com bar sign that clearly looked like a penis that he designed and got away with. He designed a room in Los Vegas that has Tupac lyrics written on the walls as tribute to him. Then he attempted to write the most valentines in one day using social media which Guinness had to deny as a world record. Then he talked about his famous experiment were he dated a close friend for 40 days. He and his date were complete opposites when it came to dating. The notes that they took from the experiment were turned into a book and apparently they sold the movie rights to Warner Brothers which is currently trying to make a screen play. Then he ended with some Instagram poetry that he wrote. I really like how he talked about his inspiration of his designs.