Visual Inspiration: Waterlogged

Yet Another False Start

       First of all, I had a lovely Christmas with my family. I ate almost nothing but candy and cookies and hugged all of my family members randomly and often. After a prolonged struggle, I agreed to take the car back up with me to expand my opportunities, and I gave myself one more month to pull out all the stops, get a job, and not be a failure. I was resolved. I was hopeful. I was...

       I was two hours into my trip back home, driving along through beautiful, drifting snow, when I swerved a bit and gently spun out onto the meridian of the highway.

You Don't Understand About Me and Books: Part II

       Sometimes I swear there are magnets on my soul.

       Sometimes I open the right book - and after a decade or so of practice it is often the right book - and we snap together, the story starts, the pages in my left hand are stacked higher than those in my right, and then it's over, done. I'll surface like someone emerging from a parallel universe and blink at my surroundings thinking, "oh, right. This is Here. Wait. What time is it?"

       Other times, I will open the right book and it is less like being swept along and more like the slow burn of running. It takes time, but the momentum grows and soon the magnets are humming and then lights start flickering and sometimes I'll even have to stop, panting, to chase the burning tales of ideas or concepts or understanding as they spiral outwards, rolling phrases around in my mouth like marbles, listening to the rumble of concepts falling into place.

Visual Inspiration: Rusty

   

Visual Inspiration: Suspended

  

Visual Inspiration: Note

       I am shuffling through my "Visual Inspiration" folder today, trying to categorize the many, many photos I have into some sort of organised system. Unfortunately, I can't! God bless whatever genius invented metadata tags, because the human mind just does not work in rigid categories. The images I love are loved for being combinations of things: beautiful subjects, in interesting places, doing interesting things, evoking interesting ideas... I can't pick a dominate attribute to file most of them under!

       I am forcing them into certain categories, but I am worrying about how I am going to start thinking about them like that. From now on, I'm going to try to title my little "Visual Inspiration" collections a bit less obviously.

       Also, anyone know if there is software to organize documents with tags? The whole internet is, and most intranets are, but I would love a system for personal files, as well.

Discovery Channel Commercial

       The only thing that bothers me is the clip of what is definitely an orca whale, not a great white shark, but whatever. This is epic.

Yeah, Bollywood!

       I have absolutely no idea what is going on in this video except that it looks like a lot of fun and it cheers me up. You've got Dramatic Looks and hundreds of colorful dancers in an amusement park, not to mention (what I assume are) dancing dads! What's not to like?