I Wrote This for You

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If you are looking for elegant poetry with wonderful imagery and words put together in a beautiful way you've never thought of before, skip this book. You were better to the ones that were worse for you. And worse to the one that was better for you.” As much as I respect wordcraft, the author turned out bludgeoning its beauty. The writing was a mixture of simple words crafted ambitiously. Yet, it barely pulled through. Here take a read: His work has won numerous local and international awards and can be found in Communication Arts, Design Indaba Magazine, Ad Vantage Magazine, bestadsontv.com, Contagious Magazine, Archive, The University of Pretoria’s Permanent Design Collection, X-ings: Shaping Culture Through Design Exhibition, The United Nations Gallery of Sustainable Communication, TEDx, Heso Magazine (Japan) and http://www.inpursuitofelegance.com I recommend this book to jejegirls who are either in love or in need of love or broken or just feeling all the shit the world gladly offers.

Don't be angry and make art often. For those of you who do not make art, will make war. And those of you who do not make war, will be left to make art from what remains." pg 22Another short poem: "The Dreams On The Line"... "I chased my dreams until I caught them/I chased my thoughts until I stopped thinking/And I chased my heart until I found you.

I Wrote This For You is a little bit magic and words. It's a simple idea. The book is filled with poems and photo's. The photo's are simple. As a creative director, he’s a champion for innovative design and communication for his clients which have included Nike, Levi’s, Johnny Walker, The Design Indaba, MTN, apple and many more, from Los Angeles, to Amsterdam, to Johannesburg, to Cape Town. His work has spanned everything from monuments to biodegradable posters. This book is a collection of prose and poetry written out of intense heartaches, depressed judgments, schizophrenic thinking and Fly High drugs. At first, I adore how the author contemplates about human emotions - how they revolve around every core of our atoms, how they trigger earthly and heavenly impulses and the plenty little things that they offer but then, its exaggeration and sugarcoating has flee to Pluto that I no longer know how to fathom them. Some stuff were cliché - lyrics from a song, a segment from a quote, a phrase from a television advertisement.

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Don’t you worry. Everything will be easier when they can just plug a fountain pen nib straight into your heart.

If the thing you said you'd do makes other people happy, that's great but don't say things or do things just to make them happy." pg 15 Through the project, he was also able to have skateboards delivered to The Uganda Skateboard Union on behalf of Stacy Peralta, director of Dogtown And Z-Boys and Riding Giants and he’s previously acted as a creative consultant to Brian Wayne Transeau or “BT” (whose previous collaborators include Peter Gabriel, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and David Bowie, amongst others) on his last album, If The Stars Are Eternal, So Are You And I. In the book's powerful introduction, Thomas begins with "Dear You" explaining to readers he has written the book which had been previously lost, and was leaving his hands-- finding its way to each individual reader. He continues, that he hopes the writing, poetry and photos will find "You" well and simply signs it "Me".The bad news is, people are crueler meaner and more evil than you’ve ever imagined. The good news is, people are kinder, gentler and more loving than you’ve ever dreamed.”