“Man Versus Poo (MVP)” was a short-lived, dumb little comic strip idea that exemplifies my wandering mind, nearly completely. The kind of endeavor that you do, spend some time and effort on, lose interest in and then forget about until you stumble back onto it at some point and go, “Did I do that? Why? Why did I do that?”
I have a lot of those. So, when I found this old Tumblr site and saw the sketchy beginnings of Man Versus Poo, it triggered something for me. It was July, 2009, we were in the middle of pitching HTC. I was just considering putting a stop to all the creative meandering I was doing outside of work and focus my efforts on photography. And then I did. Kind of a neat marker of time as since then so much has happened.
Then just today I was thinking I should maybe make a blog for my photography and came across this strange thing I made. It would have been nothing to scrap Man Versus Poo and start a new blog. But why not just keep it here? The thought is the same: it’s me against all the crap in the world, still. Same premise, different medium. Different way to look at it. And that’s as good an analogy as I can think of for what I’m doing in photography anyway. Trying to look at something in a new way.
