While sensible people are busy making five-year plans, we're wondering whether a photograph can tell a joke, if a melody secretly wants to become a book, or whether a blank sheet of paper is simply waiting to be politely startled.
We write, paint, design, photograph, compose, sing, build, dismantle, rebuild, celebrate the occasional masterpiece, quietly escort the spectacular disasters out the back door, then invite them back in because they usually have the best stories.
We collect ridiculous ideas like some people collect stamps, firmly believing that every truly terrible idea is only one cup of coffee away from becoming a brilliant one. We fail enthusiastically, improve accidentally, laugh constantly, and repeat the whole gloriously questionable process until something wonderful appears.
If, somewhere along the way, we make you smile, think, wonder, or spill your coffee because you weren't expecting any of it, then we'd say it was a pretty good day's work.
A successful website features products, services, some well formatted graphics, inviting, clickable. No lengthy blurbs of fantastic ideas, or unrelated mind prints.
But, that's where our work truly begins. In inspiration, wild explorations of wacky ideas, the empty canvas. Everything and all has been done, in art, in literature, in photography, and in music. All of the good stuff started with an empty piece of paper, a pen, and ideas that were jotted down, to be crossed out and replaced, refined, corrected, to find the first idea might still be the best.
So we don't design things, we don't write music, we don't take pictures, we don't write books. We dream, we think, we plan, sketch, copy, paste, cross-out, start again, and present the seemingly simplest idea, backed by true intellectual development, what feels like a hundred years of trial and error, successes and never to be discussed or admitted failures. Art is a process. And success is a byproduct of "doing".
So - we do things. Lots of things.
And they all go hand in hand, melodies that come from geometric shapes, wacky hand sketches that inform the next story for a book. It all flows, and becomes one.
But, we didn't start here. Nobody ever does, though the good stories always pretend otherwise.
The actual beginning was in the love for geometric shapes, and, strangely enough, mixing beats on tape. Not something you'd put together in a cohesive sentence, but somehow, that's how it started. Add a Commodore 64 and learning BASIC into the mix, and everyone's confused.
Learning by doing, joining a rock band, to be let go for being "too Karaoke", working for years as a duo with a classical pianist to find out that music doesn't just sound good, but actually has method and theory, to eventually starring in larger-than-life shows, being seen live on TV singing to millions, it's a crazy roller coaster ride. None intended or planned, yet all enjoyed and celebrated, wins, mistakes, every moment worth it.
From the singing spotlight to a flashy office in Berlin, a dancing camera in hand, to writing books and designing artwork in solitude, to composing new music and staging shows, it's a circus. Chaos, in the best way.
We've been given trophies we didn't quite believe we deserved and titles we've mostly worn sideways, because the truth is none of it was ever really about the winning. It was about the noticing. And, any modesty aside, it does feel good to be seen.
And there was the "we" again, what a sneaky little word.
"We" does have that certain undertone, that smell of a one man show trying hard to make things sound bigger than they are. Wouldn't it be nice if it were that simple, all glory ending up in one bank account. A name on a trophy might be singular, yet the path to such accolades is laid by a team. Singing a love song against a mirror might have its place, nothing wrong with some self-affirmation, but it just comes across far more believable with a counter part on stage. Ideas ask for inspiration, collaborators, financiers, marketeers, photographs are modelled, assisted, developed, music played by musicians, shaped by arrangers, conducted, produced. Teams grow and shrink, and all of it is "we".
And so, "we" continue. And we're here for new ideas, new sketches, new tunes, new made up words, and, who knows, we might be working together some day, somewhere, on something exciting!
And with it, let's write the next chapter together…
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