The Secret Language of Five Corners

Since this whole blog is an experiment in giving people a glimpse into the Five Corners studio, I thought it might be appropriate to let you in on the types of things that can often be overheard while we work. Although 'appropriate' might not be the word some would use, 'odd' is possibly a better one, or 'ridiculous'... whatever.

In no particular order here are some of our most common phrases:

“Coke me”

This is by FAR our most commonly uttered phrase, seeing as how we might as well be sponsored by Diet Coke (and oh, wouldn't that be glorious? Coca Cola company, call me!) The fridge in the studio exists for the sole purpose of keeping our precious cans of Diet Coke properly chilled. Approximately every five minutes one of us will call out “Coke me” to whomever is closest to the fridge and a cold can of liquid heaven is immediately sent our way.

“Is this stupid or awesome?”

There's a fine line some days. A felt cactus or a mustache necklace? Could go either way, frankly. And most of the time it's hard to see your own work objectively. So fairly often one of us will push back in our chair and ask the other to make the judgement call. Sometimes the project goes into a timeout so we can take another look at it a few days later. Sometimes awesome wins, but sometimes stupid wins and the project goes into the failure drawer.

“I want to BE us!”

On a particularly productive day we bust out this little gem to pat ourselves on the back. It was first uttered in a spontaneous fit of self-congratulation when a challenging set of projects worked out even better than we could have hoped. I think it originally used to be longer, as in “We're so awesome, I just want to BE us!” But we are masters at patting ourselves (and each other) on the back, if we can't appreciate ourselves who else is going to?

“We should clean up this mess”

Oh messy studio, we love you so. But every so often we will take a look around and realize that we have crossed the line. That we can't find anything we need, that bits of clay have been ground into our poor carpet or that yet another pile of random papers has toppled over onto the floor. And then it becomes studio clean-up day.

“Director of Awesome”

This is a fairly new phrase for us, but it captures what the last few months have been about for us. Like most creative people, both of us have always struggled to find a balance between working for a living (ie: paying the bills) and living creatively. Basically we both want to get paid to do something we love for a living. But jobs that involve making messes and gluing stuff to other stuff are hard to come by, oddly enough. Hence our mythical dream jobs as a 'Director of Awesome'. If you happen to come across a Director of Awesome job posting one day, now you'll know just who to come to! I'll start putting my resume together...