About 3.5 years ago I was scared of computers. Well not so much scared, as just didn’t really want anything to do with them. This I guess was due to my brother, who when we brought a computer back in 93 or whenever, decided to methodically trash the thing, and install viruses on for shits and giggles. Obviously my frustration had it’s limits and I just didn’t bother with the whole thing.

Fast-forward to University and I got by using the Uni computers and borrowed a 586 from my buddy Richard who’d just bought a Laptop. I did a bit of word processing, e-mailing and message boards. Very little else. My main creative output was to actually drawing and painting. I would spend days on end on a single drawing. After I’d compiled enough work I decided to set up a website and have an online portfolio like all the pros. The only person I knew that could help me with this project was my brother.

We spent an entire month sorting out my website. I would sketch it and he’d do everything else. I’d ask him if he could make this happen or that happen. He came through in grand style, and that’s when kalscreations was born. It was updated once, and never again. This was back in 2000.

When I graduated in 2001, I decided it was time to get another website up and running. Again I enlisted the help of my brother for this little project. This time however he didn’t last. If anything I was even more demanding than before. You see I’m a complete anal perfectionist. It’s a sickness I guess. He lasted 2 weeks this time before he just looked at me, having reached the end of his rope, and said

' You know what, if you want that effect, DO IT YOURSELF'.

‘What do you mean do it myself? I don’t know how!’

‘Learn.'

So I did. It was tough. It took months upon months to understand photoshop, it took agest to understand how Flash worked. It took a while to get to grips with vectors. The main thing was persistence. I don’t know what reminded me of this story but I thought I should write it down and say thanks to my bro who pushed me into the deep end when the time was right.