Too Many Ideas Too Little Time
Posted in Business / Geek / Music / Photography by CujoJune 15th, 2006 - 1:15 AM
So I want to take over the world… not really but I’d like to do a lot of things that I simply don’t have the time to do. Part of the equation is me and not being a quick starter and then another part being that when I finally want to start something another distraction comes up to take my time away. The fence, the dogs, the house, the job, the stress, being burnt out etc.
I want to take my photography to the next level. I’m “alright” with bar shots for bands etc but anything beyond that I’m confused and my pictures aren’t all that great. I need time to learn the camera better and be able to expand my abilities that little bit more. Slackhopper just recently posted some shots she took for promo pics for From Chimpan-A to Chimpan-Z which are pretty cool. She also has some “press” pics up on Big Wheel’s myspace page (first link goes to their “official site”, second to their myspace page). Seeing that photography makes me want to do it as well. Damn you!
I also have “other plans” that I want to do but not sure if I want to make public yet or not. I need to bounce the ideas off of a few others to see how viable they think they are. All evolve around the web and music and photos and the web. Put the rest together yourself. Yes I know I said the web twice.
A fun idea is (me believing my pictures are good enough anyway) displaying some of the better “rock” photos I’ve taken in the past year at a show of sorts. Just to have it out there. Seeing it all on the computer doesn’t give it justice. I think it’d be fun. But like I told Mr. Case the other night, I highly doubt the “art” would be on display for sale because the only people buying photos of Jay would be him or family. This goes for the “others” as well just incase they think they are free of my ridicule so you can insert Belsito for Case etc. Maybe some hounds will also make their way for a “Rock and Hounds” gallery. But then again nobody really wants to look at that now do they? Plus do I really want to spend the time (or have the time) to go through the process of cropping, organizing, printing, matting and framing the selected photos. It’s one of those big balloon dreams basically. Maybe I’ll just have to settle for a coffee table book.
It’s already early Thursday and I still haven’t put up the shots from this weekend. Simply no time. Hopefully late Thursday I’ll do a multi-blog and have the different sets up ready to go (sorry for all of you waiting for the pictures featuring you). The plan was to do it tonight but simply no time again to go through the pics, select the good ones, resize, upload and be witty with captions etc. I like being witty and tired witty basically becomes me just being dumb. Then again that might be my witty all the time.
Where was I going with this? No clue. But hey, some ideas are out there now so start pushing me.
Also because I haven’t mentioned them here but have everyone else check out Mr. West and Startlefish, they are one of my main “photography” requesters.
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June 15th, 2006 at 7:22 am
Heck, we’re always finding new dreams. Nothing wrong with that. Puts a little Cayene in the “can do.”
June 15th, 2006 at 8:25 am
Some are new and some are old t hat I’ve wanted to start for a long time but just haven’t for whatever reason. Which when I think about it gets me down and I try to figure out what the hell I’ve been doing instead of doing what I want to get done.
June 15th, 2006 at 8:36 am
Maybe you’ve been depressed? You did say you didn’t like you job not too long ago and when your depressed your creative sauce isn’t moving too fast. I bet given enough sunlight it will come back to full force and then you’ll be a force to be reckoned with. Boo yah!
OR maybe you’re not really into your ideas “right now,” sometimes when I have an idea in my brain I don’t start it right away. Not because the idea isn’t fabulous but because I’m just not feeling it at this very moment.
Why not try to get out there and just do something? It doesn’t have to be prefect or even at it’s finished state; just start taking random pictures to “get yourself going and experiment.” Or why not head down to the library and look for some books on photography to inspire. I find when youââ?¬â?¢re active your brain is attractive.
June 15th, 2006 at 10:48 am
Time - he has none.
I can’t see Curt in a library for anything. Sorry but the thought of seeing Curt around books makes me giggle, he hates reading!
I agree that he may be depressed but really it’s a time thing. He works until 5 or 5:30 then either goes straight to baseball on Tues/Thur if we play at 6 or comes home, eats, and goes to ball for 7:15. Then on Mon/Wed/Fri we either take the dogs out, clean the house, or work on the fence until around 9:30. And this is on days that hockey isn’t on. Weekends usually consist of taking the dogs somewhere (we can’t ignore them all the time), working on the fence, cleaning the house, or shopping for something or someone. The days aren’t long enough. His Aunt and Uncle come to town this weekend so we have to mow the lawn, clean the yard, clean the house, and keep the dogs worn out so if they come over they dont get attacked. Busy busy busy.
June 15th, 2006 at 11:06 am
Take that camera EVERYWHERE with you and you WILL get spectacular, weird, off-the-wall shots of things you’d never expect. (Of course, if you have friends, they will no longer trust you.)
June 15th, 2006 at 3:12 pm
I completely endorse any further entry on your part into the world of photography. Hell … my site is now almost exclusively populated by CO photographs. I think your pictures are terrific, and you seem to capture the spirit of the moment at the same time as not making us look fat.
So well done, and continue on. Please.
p.s. Pics from last week �?
June 15th, 2006 at 11:05 pm
Queen - I think Jes answered your comment for me HAHA. It’s not that I don’t have the creative juices flowing it’s more the time for them. This post was made last night at 1 AM and now I’m finally back to fully comment at 11 PM the next day and simply just need to go to bed as I’m worn out.
Les - We try to take the camera most places we go but the camera plus equipment runs at about $3000-$3500 so it’s not really something you want with you all the time, plus it all weighs in at about 10-15 pds I think (camera body and lenses). I do have a backpack to carry it all in though so it makes it a little easier.
Craig - thanks for the compliments. I’ll be sure to continue on and as long as there are some people asking me to come out (okay even if they aren’t) I’ll show up with camera in hand ready to take some shots. I think my “band” technique is pretty good now but branching off from there is where I want to go I think.
As far as pics from last week that was the plan for tonight but now it’s freaking late so I promise them tomorrow (no matter how late it gets as there’s no work on Saturday — well that stinky work anyway).
June 17th, 2006 at 4:35 pm
thank you so very much for your kind words, CO…yer sweet…
I know what you mean by the no time thing. The only way I manage to get out to all these shows to shoot is by seriously sacraficing my sleep time. These band shots are very important to me, however, so I don’t mind. I hope to someday do this for a living and maybe if I photograph enough bands and get my name out there, it may just happen…maybe…BIG maybe…
June 18th, 2006 at 12:56 am
Just a thought - purchase a cheaper camera that will fit into a front jeans pocket. Sure, it might only be 4 or 5 MP - but it will help in taking pictures of non-bar/band shots. I guarantee it. Practice makes perfect.
Also, a coffee table book is a swell idea - I’ve considered that myself. I’ve seen ads for places that will book-bind your blog for a nominal fee - have you considered something like that?
June 19th, 2006 at 9:18 am
Slackhopper: I hear you on the “do it for a living” thing. I’m trying to incorporate the photography more into the offerings of Murderfly Multimedia but I’m not “there yet” for actual payment for photography I think. But one day that’s what I want to do full time as well, web design/devel and photography. Oh to dream. Tried it for a year and it was slow that I am now here and we all know where “here” is and how I feel about that.
Mark: As far as purchasing a secondary camera it won’t quite fit the need I want. A point-and-click simply operates different than the SLR that I’m trying to learn. I’m forcing myself to move more into a manual mode and this is where my pictures aren’t turning out how I want them to. I could probably switch it to the “auto” and let the camera do everything for me but then where’s the learning part of that. I also feel I get more out of my pictures when I have it in “near” manual mode (not fully there yet but I’m getting there — setting my aperture, focusing my subject etc, so very close but so very far away HAHA). I’ve also seen the “bind the blog” books as well but I think if I were to put out a coffee book of photos I’d like to have more control over it’s layout then a “grab this off my site and make it a book”.
June 20th, 2006 at 2:53 am
Amen. I can sure relate to that. Can we say “Feedzo” anyone?
I’ve been in that boat (still in it somewhat), and there eventually comes a point where you just have to say enough is enough and make a change. I’m doing several things differently now that is giving me a lot more time and it’s starting to pay off.
I realize that’s not an option for everyone, though, because there are jobs and incomes to be considered…. Not that we have any extra, just that I wasn’t making much to begin with, so I could be flexible with it until I sorted things out and at least not be any worse off.
I hope you’re able to do similar soon, Curt. What ideas do you have in mind, maybe I can help with some of it, or help with figuring out some of it, or something.
I always forget to log on to MSN, seems like we haven’t talked in forever.