Seek.Seek for the truth. Seek justice. Seek happiness. Seek confidence. Seek ideas. Seek coolness. Seek forgiveness.

Refraining from consulting webster's or googling the definition, I'll try and crack the meaning of "seek" from my gut; from what it means to me, right now, at this very instant, sitting in front of my computer at 2:49 pm on April 25, 2007.

I've always been a "seeker". Seeking is in my blood, and I think its in everyones blood, deep down. Maybe for some its locked behind a heavy door, down a swaying staircase, or in the recessed basements of their minds. And for some its the foremost emotion that drives their everyday existence. For others its a switch set on auto pilot that kicks in when life becomes mundane. What ever the case, it lives in all of us, driving, if not carrying us to new and exciting things.

I can remember being a young and hungry teenager always searching for the next coolest "thing". Constantly after the coolest music, clothes, party, girls, friends ect.

Seeking cool.

Thats what drove me for minutes, days and years. Nothing else could get in the way without being thoughtlessly knocked over by my drive to be part of the next big COOL.

Not family, not school, nothing.

My drive was a panther.

There was no reasoning with it. There was no taming or holding it back. It was born, free and hungry, in a world readily supplied with bountiful feasts of youth consumerism... I honestly don't know where I am going with this, other then at that time in my life, nothing could stop me from blindly seeking the things that made me most happy. And I guess thats where the biggest change is. I'm still seeking the same thing in principle, only the principles of what I'm searching for have changed.

huh?

I am still seeking happiness, but what makes me happy is far different then merely being COOL.

I guess the panther has been tamed in a way, I still like cool things, I'm just not driven by them now. Today I'm driven by family, by creativity, by feeling healthy, by surrounding myself with people who seek similar things . Which brings me to CARTELERA: a collective of people that dance to their own rhythm and yet feed from the creative beats that echo and resonate through ONE creative space. Its the first time I have been involved in a joint studio space and although it's still new, and the dynamic of the personalities are still blending, all very fresh, it feels like home.

It feels like the beginnings of a family... A very creative, good looking family...

Its something I have been "seeking" in my life for sometime. I guess I just had to wait for the path to present itself before I knew which way to walk.

I greatly look forward to introducing the world to the talent pool that is CARTELERA.