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An Introduction
2006.10.12
Note: This was actually authored on October 24th, but I back-dated it so it appears as the first entry in this blog.
I’ve got creative burnout.
It’s really that simple. I stare at my main blog and simply can’t bring myself to write. It’s like pulling nails just to write this now. What do I have to write about? The time and flexibility and people-meeting opportunities of college gave me fresh stories almost every day (and procrastinating from studying gave me plenty of incentive to write :P ). Now, I sit in an office 8 hours a day. I like my job, and my coworkers are interesting (though I know better than to write about them here), but the same routine day-in and day-out makes it hard to pull up stories.
But I know they’re there. And that’s what this is about.
“Three Sixty Five” is inspired by the Photojojo post about recording a year in pictures. One picture, every day, for 365 days. The incentive? A lot happens in a year, and taking a picture a day is a great way to capture that.
Reading that post really resonated with me, because a lot has happened to me in the past year, things that have dramatically changed my perspective on who I am, who I want to be, and where I am going. In general, I’d say it’s been a great year with a lot of positive experiences and growth, especially in my faith. But I look back and only have a handful of pictures to record it all. There are some people who profoundly influenced me personally, professionally, or spiritually whom I have no pictures of at all, and may never get the opportunity again. Hopefully, taking a picture a day will give me the chance to have a rich record of my life over the next year. At the least, I’ll come out of it a better photographer.
I think this project will enrich my life to some degree as well. To keep the pictures from getting monotonous, I’m going to have to do interesting things and go to interesting places. Chances are, many of these interesting places are all around me — I just have been so caught up in the busyness of life that I haven’t taken the time to slow down and just look. Already, I’m noticing all sorts of cool little details at my workplace that I never paid attention to before. Having to take a picture a day, and limiting myself to that one picture, is obviously an artificial construct, but I love that sort of thing. Limitations breed creativity. And maybe, just maybe, this little diversion might jump start my other creative endeavours.
I’ve taken pictures daily for 11 days now, but unfortunately can’t upload them to my computer. The bro accidentally packed up the camera transfer wire thingy and took it to Seattle — he’s promised to mail it back. In the meantime, I’ll just keep taking pictures, and I’ll probably write up descriptions of them here until the wire comes in.
But not tonight. It’s way past my bedtime.
I’ve got creative burnout.
It’s really that simple. I stare at my main blog and simply can’t bring myself to write. It’s like pulling nails just to write this now. What do I have to write about? The time and flexibility and people-meeting opportunities of college gave me fresh stories almost every day (and procrastinating from studying gave me plenty of incentive to write :P ). Now, I sit in an office 8 hours a day. I like my job, and my coworkers are interesting (though I know better than to write about them here), but the same routine day-in and day-out makes it hard to pull up stories.
But I know they’re there. And that’s what this is about.
“Three Sixty Five” is inspired by the Photojojo post about recording a year in pictures. One picture, every day, for 365 days. The incentive? A lot happens in a year, and taking a picture a day is a great way to capture that.
Reading that post really resonated with me, because a lot has happened to me in the past year, things that have dramatically changed my perspective on who I am, who I want to be, and where I am going. In general, I’d say it’s been a great year with a lot of positive experiences and growth, especially in my faith. But I look back and only have a handful of pictures to record it all. There are some people who profoundly influenced me personally, professionally, or spiritually whom I have no pictures of at all, and may never get the opportunity again. Hopefully, taking a picture a day will give me the chance to have a rich record of my life over the next year. At the least, I’ll come out of it a better photographer.
I think this project will enrich my life to some degree as well. To keep the pictures from getting monotonous, I’m going to have to do interesting things and go to interesting places. Chances are, many of these interesting places are all around me — I just have been so caught up in the busyness of life that I haven’t taken the time to slow down and just look. Already, I’m noticing all sorts of cool little details at my workplace that I never paid attention to before. Having to take a picture a day, and limiting myself to that one picture, is obviously an artificial construct, but I love that sort of thing. Limitations breed creativity. And maybe, just maybe, this little diversion might jump start my other creative endeavours.
I’ve taken pictures daily for 11 days now, but unfortunately can’t upload them to my computer. The bro accidentally packed up the camera transfer wire thingy and took it to Seattle — he’s promised to mail it back. In the meantime, I’ll just keep taking pictures, and I’ll probably write up descriptions of them here until the wire comes in.
But not tonight. It’s way past my bedtime.
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