absolute tirade

for reasons I'm still to gutted to talk about and that are far to volatile to air in an open forum such as this - i find myself about to embark on several crusades all at once. Ive opened up a western and eastern front and by all accounts my southern and northern borders are looking likely to go to all out war very soon. the storm clouds are brewing and regrettably the dragons of war are the inevitable unleashing.

i have very quietly run my little QJD design studio very much under the radar in cape town for 12 years.  and now I'm  sticking my head up to take on several respect issues which have all come to a head at the same time,  quite by chance really.

the first one is my good friend and confident vivaladraught has decided to take on the entire architectural landscape single handed - you might want to read his latest "remember , remember the 5th of November 2011" blog insert. (click him next door to this blog - the Che character with pencil in ear.) Ive been reluctantly roped in because as they say in the classics - we are joined at the hip and it seems a few other places as well. vivaladraught could not help himself,  - the mans a complete animal - awaiting to be shackled in the bastille or worse - devils island - next to the count of monte cristo. vivaladraught  vows and promises he will escape and throw lavish parties and invite everyone round to talk of times before all these foolius dillemas.

my other flat out war is still simmering - however both have one thing in common - basic - R-E-S-P-E-C-T.

it is suffice to say
when bureaucrats, academics , regulatory bodies , design forums , contemporaries , industry start to show absolutely no respect towards the rights of the hard working man in the street , professional Joe public and working class citizen x. history tells and shows us what will happen next. (let the reader use his own discernment)
it is the rule rather than the exception that men who are so puffed up by their own self importance , they fail to simply validate and respect the property and rights of qualified through experience  (QBE) professionals. the professionals and designers who have worked there way up in a profession through experience of years and not full study. we see these puffers develop gloating pride - this pride gives rise to absolute greed , which gives rise to a countries landscape with exclusively locked rooms, where a very few fat puffed up men shoot fish in barrels. often these puffers, whilst thinking they are feathering their own nest are in actual fact digging all our graves.