Jordan l Brooks

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Thank you for your consideration.

First and foremost, I can efficiently tailor my skills to suit your needs; whenever I have an assignment it just directs my creativity.

 

To whom it may concern:

 

Modestly speaking, I'm a gifted writer-- I've won over 8 awards for poetry and creative writing. I can write most-anything, also generally everything I write comes out well-written. I love perfecting the art of writing; it's my trade. Recently, I've decided to create and maintain a bi-monthly blog entitled Jpinions. I created Jpinions for no other purpose then to give me another creative outlet as I desire to write feverishly in as many aspects of life as I can muster; also, Jpinions is aimed to provoke thought since so many people neglect to think for extended periods of time, as described in JpinDaily.

 

-I do not run out of creative matter and I work hard to achieve efficient perfection in all of my endeavors. This will become evident immediately as I use those same skills to effectively complete your assignments.

 

Briefly, in late 2006, I was a featured writer at a writer's conference in Hollywood, CA. Writers flew to LAX from around the world and I was an honoree. The writers there told me that I was an exceptionally profound writer. So although I am just a student and merely 21 years old, these 30-something year-old writers settling into the establishment of their careers highly suggested to me (when I was 19), that I pursue my writing career to the fullest of my ability and to lose my modesty. I stay humble. They exclaimed that when I become their age, I will have already established myself as a prolific entity and they detailed that I was exactly what publishers were looking for right now.

 

Well, right now all of my books are incomplete as I believe they should be. Although I will be a great novelist someday, I am not yet. I do love to write though, words come so easily to me it's just amazing. When I was a boy, after school, I read the dictionary in solitude at my house for fun; I attribute my discipline and writing skills to things such as that (and personal strength traits covered in Jpinions).

-I've written so many different articles and essays and philosophical statements and short stories and poetry and SEO copywriting and website rewrites and landing-page rewrites and even more, that I believe my skills can easily adapt to suit your tastes. I'll write for you until I am blue in the face and I'll unleash all of the creativity that I can summon for your projects. I love to write and I love writing assignments; I need to write and I need a job. Please give me favorable consideration for your writing position and I assure you that you will not regret it. Thank you.

 

Respectfully,

JlB

 

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Samples:

Blog: Please visit Jpinions.blogspot.com

You can access JpinDaily from Jpinions, also.

Creative Writing:  JlBaSilentMovie.blogspot.com

Other writing: www.artculture.com/art-news/deadly-arts

 

www.myspace.com/JelBrooks
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A brief note regarding fees:
           

Fees should be discussed on a case-by-case basis; I’m negotiable. *PayPal is almost the only way that I’ll accept payment these days. I’m sorry for the inconvenience, but there are too many people who are not trustworthy. It takes too much time to sift through potential clients/employers to determine whose check will actually come in the mail. I cannot decipher that efficiently. I say to you, consider PayPal as your preferred method of pay.  PayPal is instant, free and it facilitates the trust in our working-relationship. Trust provides the groundwork for lasting partnerships as well.

Also, we may soon be discussing the details of our first assignment together. You should be considering a retainer to show your commitment to the endeavor. Don’t worry, I’ll show you my dedication too. I aim for us to have a mutually beneficial venture. Retainers are crucial for instilling the trust that is required for our relationship to thrive.

The (frequently) required retainer should be at least 1/3^rd of the estimated fee for the assignment, but usually about half of it. The retainer should be paid as soon as you (the client) has satisfactory proof that your assignment is (or will be) achieving completion. A retainer is to help prevent the aforementioned occurrence. Also, in the future, by keeping your account updated you will help to keep things running smoothly. I have major difficulties working with people who put forth little to no effort to achieve trust in our working relationship. The opportunity-cost outweighs the opportunity-benefit and oftentimes I have to pass on potential offers no matter how tempting they are.

 

I have an approximate schedule of fees for your reference; if you’d like a copy of it, please send a request.

 

Thank you for taking the time to consider me, I’ve available to answer all of your questions.

Best regards,

JlB

*If you intend to pay with a check (in order to prevent the formerly too-common theft of my time, work and money), I’ll need a couple of references or something similar to that.

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Writing Sample II

 

The Big Art Project,

(England)

By JlB

 

The Big Art Project was started in 2006, by Channel 4 of England, as an ambitious endeavor to allow the public to influence the commissioning of immense public works of art. It also was a movement, backed by the Arts Council England, to generate new art in England (with public involvement). Courtesy of an invitation by youth of the city of Burnley, the artist's group known as Greyworld accepted an offer to collaborate with 15 of the city's youth. Together, Greyworld and the15 youngsters turned the city of Burnley into a living-canvas, the only one of its kind on Earth. This is the first of 7 public works of art to be featured in England in 2008 as a result of The Big Art Project.

 

Greyworld is a group of London artists who have created many large and permanent art fixtures in Europe. Their style is as unconventional as it is incredible. One of their artistic installations took the shape of a light-blue carpet attached to the Millennium Bridge in Dublin, Ireland. The blue pathway is embedded with a multitude of sensors that translates every person's walking into the curiously vivid sounds. As you traverse the bridge, sounds of autumn leaves crushing beneath your feet toy with your reality. Perhaps a few moments later the sound of sloshing through water will emanate, or trekking through snow.

 

Greyworld was provoked to produce "Invisible" for this project, which was unveiled March 14, 2008, and is a series of phantom images in 19 locations throughout the city of Burnley in Lancashire, England. The images are made of light and reflected throughout the city at various times throughout the night and day. They vary from being painting-style and sized to being house-sized. In the same manner that this entire endeavor will unknowingly transform the citizens of Burnley into wandering art connoisseurs, the world will soon see Burnley as an artistic creation worth wandering into, as well.

 

The zeal at which the youth of Burnley administered this project shows what a sense of belonging can do for a community. The world can also learn from this revolutionary new art proposal system where local people dictate, commission and generate art for their communities. Afterwards, the art of each community would be a direct representation of that community's personality through choice, and would correlate to the quality of life and respect that even visitors have for those respective communities.

 

More art will be showcased as part of The Big Art Project in the England cities of Cardigan, Mull, Newham, North Belfast, Sheffield and St. Helens. All of the projects have projected completion dates within 2008. The Big Art Project, inspired by Channel 4, has joined local communities with artist for the artistic development of the populous. The result is a fervent uprising in art for England and the world.

www.greyworld.org

www.bigartpro.co.uk

 

By JlB

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Sample III

 

What is art?

By JlB

 

Art, to me, is the appreciation of anything set-aside from reality. Dictionary.com defines art as being something that is appealing or more than ordinary in significance. Art is the story of a culture. Whether the art topic is Michelangelo's David or Colors by Joe Shmoe, it all symbolizes one thing and that's the extent of human ability. Art could be considered magical sometimes; as it resides in your subconscious and awakens from time to time giving, only humans, a sudden urge to create astoundingly, beautiful, works of art. Art is the search, appreciation and compliment to the question, "What is Art?" Art is intangible and it translates into all languages. Art is my appreciation of the greening brown leaves on the trees outside. Commonly art could be defined, but this is only specifically; as I can designate it in daily life. "That is art." Generally, however, art is undefined; art is, most importantly, an idea.

 

From toxic swirling gases on an uninhabitable infantile earth to pictographs etched into caveman walls, prehistory is all of time before writing. With the creation of art, humans also developed the ability to speak, thusly evolving from the dumb-fog of animality. We developed the ability to think and create. This is the significance of art; it's indicative of the growth of the human-brain. The ability to conceive your own creation without seeing it first and then creating it is half of the generation of art; the appreciation of that creation is the other half. Language Arts is art in its most basic form; primitively it was made of pictograms or pictures representing words, and even this defines art in itself. However art is a true shape-shifter, as it can take numerous forms.

 

Art is a man sitting beneath a tree, alone in a prairie, witnessing a rainbow and comprehending its beauty. Art is a woman on a phone, in a busy New York train station, getting bumped and brushed past, while a painter paints from above in marvelous colors. It's the writer when he observes all of this as he walks by and documents its significance. None of this, however, can truly be considered art until the girl on the phone stops for a second as she reaches the top of the stairs and gazes at the painting momentarily; not until she stops for a second to admire the beauty, or understand the reasoning behind it, or attempt to understand it, or live it for a second, is art actually art. Art can, however, be hidden forever and still be art too; this is the power of art.

 

Art is made by artists. Artists are adept at their craft or they are modest in skill. The only criteria for artists are that he or she makes art. Some artists are, indeed, better than others. No artist, however, can refute another artist's name as such or would they attempt to, because art is a coming together of spirits. It's the bringing together of people. It's the dive into intellectualism; it's the foundation for our lives. Art is the backbone for everything and everything can be considered art. It is not vague but it is obscure. Art is up to you to define. Simply put, ultimately art is a cloud of creativity that encases the earth and gives us the ability to feel any emotion we are capable of by allowing ourselves to be submerged by an alternate reality which is stress-free, and can be left as quickly as turning your head, to me at least.

By JlB

 

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Writing Sample I

 

 

In cartoons the main character often has a robot or robot-like device that has all of the information of the world readily accessible. People have been waiting for our robot to materialize for years and now they can finally take a sigh of relief. It's not quite a robot, but it easily manages all of the information of the world right in the palm of your hand. Let's take a new-look at the 3 year-old device. The Nintendo DS-lite is raising eyebrows and forcing double-takes around the world, but why?

 

Gamers like it because of its simple gameplay, touch screen and WIFI capabilities. Now tech-gurus all over the world are buying mod-chips for their DS and turning Nintendo's portable game-playing device into a movie player, a music player, a web-browser, a camera, a free worldwide phone, a chat system, a dictionary, a language conversion tool and anything else you can probably imagine. This new mini-laptop is really kicking-up dust and has some critics saying, "Why purchase an Iphone when Apple isn't doing half of what Nintendo is capable of." (Plus a DS doesn't have a monthly bill!) It doesn't take an economist to see the changes taking place in the gaming industry. This new revolution doesn't come without some drawbacks though.

 

Although you can modify your DS to make your own games and programs, the real fantastic perk of the mod-chip isn't just its drag and drop capabilities, but now you never have to purchase another DS game again. Gamers, like music-lovers, are now jumping on the bandwagon of corporate theft. Simply boot-up your computer and type in a few keywords in a search-engine and instantly you have direct access to all of Nintendo's games. What's more, so far Nintendo has done the opposite of what the music industry did, instead of combating the change in procedure, Nintendo has embraced it, creating a whole new site specifically designed for the download of homebrew applications for you DS. Nice.

 

The DS is easy to use, occasionally hard to find and relatively inexpensive. At $129.99 you could pick one up at any store that you can probably buy a CD from or easily online. The mod-chip varies in price and can only be found online. The R4 is $80.00 and the M3 is $40.00, you can find these for $20.00 cheaper if you're internet savvy. Get it in the mail, drag your files onto an SD card and you're good to go. See you online.

 

JlB