Does anyone see a pattern here?
Okay, here's the dilemna: I'm a writer. I write stories now but I wrote poems and the like for most of my life. I am also, however, a student and I have a job as a programmer/help desk/tablet manager/factotum which pretty much leaves me no free time to write unless I want to give up time eating or sleeping.
Unrelated to this, although it will relate, I needed a new book bag about four months ago. I had this great safety cone orange bag that I loved. I bought it at Meglo-Mart and it was like 5 bucks and eventually like all 5 buck book bags it died. Now I love to shop so I became an expert on "bags" blowing off all or most of the above responsibilities learning the ins and outs of "bags".
This is when I discovered the LOMO sidekick, a kind of messenger bag/camera bag. It was very cool and, this is most important, it looked cool on the model. I bought. Now LOMO, for the uninitiated, is photography for sufferers of ADD. It's fast, danger driven and out of control snap shot photography and generally one hot marketing scheme.
Okay now back to the lack of time I had. I thought now these LOMO blokes are just like point and shoot and these groovy Russian, did I mention this is all with Russian deadstock which went from cheap to pricey as hell, cameras with their funky lenses that super over saturate the color and I thought, this will work.
See writing takes time, four hours a day at the desk even if you're just staring off into space, you gotta be sitting there waiting on the muse, re-working unfinished stuff. This blog stuff is just for fun. I pop this stuff off like ludes. I thought man, just point and shoot and instant art. I was going to be a photographer. I had studied and loved fine art all my life. It had to mean something. I even started using an I-Zone to prove the point before my 120 Holga showed up. (Whole differant post for later maybe.) I took hundreds and hundreds of shots, spent hundreds and hundreds of dollars and then it hit me:
I wanted to know about depth of field and then I wanted know about f-stop and film types. And then I was buying old cameras and learning about them and then it was taking up hours and hours of time. And next sememster I'm even taking a class in photography and holy crap I might as well be writing.
Next I-Zone and how Polariod isn't just for swingers anymore...
Unrelated to this, although it will relate, I needed a new book bag about four months ago. I had this great safety cone orange bag that I loved. I bought it at Meglo-Mart and it was like 5 bucks and eventually like all 5 buck book bags it died. Now I love to shop so I became an expert on "bags" blowing off all or most of the above responsibilities learning the ins and outs of "bags".
This is when I discovered the LOMO sidekick, a kind of messenger bag/camera bag. It was very cool and, this is most important, it looked cool on the model. I bought. Now LOMO, for the uninitiated, is photography for sufferers of ADD. It's fast, danger driven and out of control snap shot photography and generally one hot marketing scheme.
Okay now back to the lack of time I had. I thought now these LOMO blokes are just like point and shoot and these groovy Russian, did I mention this is all with Russian deadstock which went from cheap to pricey as hell, cameras with their funky lenses that super over saturate the color and I thought, this will work.
See writing takes time, four hours a day at the desk even if you're just staring off into space, you gotta be sitting there waiting on the muse, re-working unfinished stuff. This blog stuff is just for fun. I pop this stuff off like ludes. I thought man, just point and shoot and instant art. I was going to be a photographer. I had studied and loved fine art all my life. It had to mean something. I even started using an I-Zone to prove the point before my 120 Holga showed up. (Whole differant post for later maybe.) I took hundreds and hundreds of shots, spent hundreds and hundreds of dollars and then it hit me:
I wanted to know about depth of field and then I wanted know about f-stop and film types. And then I was buying old cameras and learning about them and then it was taking up hours and hours of time. And next sememster I'm even taking a class in photography and holy crap I might as well be writing.
Next I-Zone and how Polariod isn't just for swingers anymore...
posted by Mike at 9:14 AM
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