Another beginning, and my ninth year of doing a 365 project. This shot was a planned play-off of my ending shot for 2016- a twist of the dice and a twist of the hand is how fast life can change!
I feel I am starting this year with an ambitious nature in this project, more so than usual in my life. I am hoping to learn from myself and from others this year. I felt like towards the end of 2016 I lost creative steam which is part of the collective process so I have learned through the years, but it was mildly frustrating all the same.
In 2017 my two goals for being on Flickr are to have better pictures to post as part of my project (part of a theme, more thought-out than a picture on the fly, etc.), and to be more social and spread a little Flickr love to people engaged in this beauty called photography.
Cheers all!
Theme: Devoid Of Color
Year Nine Of My 365 Project
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Lately I have been thinking through what kind of legacy I am building- what I am leaving behind on this Earth to make it a better place. While I have many interests in my world, I have been passionate about writing and journaling ever since I was a small child. I’ve had journals on and off ever since I was in second grade, but my current journal is indeed on of my greatest passions- maybe even my legacy.
It may seem a bit morose, but someday the light will leave my life. That is a certainty. Someday these pages of my journal will be all that is left of me and my different journeys, and I wonder what kind of a legacy I really am leaving. I find myself more and more asking what I want this all to be about.
While these pages have really helped me get through a lot of things in my life, my hope is that somehow, someway they have inspired others to do the same. I hope that somehow others may have seen the creative outlets and that they themselves can work through or document their own lives.
This journal I am writing is the legacy I am leaving behind, for whatever it is worth to anyone. Seven journals of 3,00 pages each- it will take quite a while to finish. My goal besides my journal is to build a beautiful work of art to encase and hold all the pages of my life… my legacy. I want it to be a legacy in and of itself- a building project that will take years to complete. I will in no way finish the case this year, but I hope to complete the design, and start crafting it piece by piece- like my legacy being written one page at a time.
Theme: Building A Legacy
Year Nine Of My 365 Project
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Song of the Day: Days of Sunshine, Days of Shadow
This is one of the first songs that I composed on the guitar, and I would really like to lay it down and record it as it is in my head with multiple parts. Somewhere out there are videos of me performing this song, but Lord only knows where they are.
The title of this song is actually from an episode of Little House on the Prairie- I never saw the episode but when I saw the title come on the screen at the beginning of the episode it painted such a vivid picture and story in my mind, and I transcribed that into this song.
Much of the song is played on the middle part of the neck, with the elemental theme in a mid-range tone- that is the “Sunshine” element of the song. The guitar is tuned to a beautiful “Open-D” which gives it a dark and hallowed low end sound- that is the “shadow” of the song.
Theme: Guitar Tuesday
Year Nine Of My 365 Project
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I love working with my hands, whether in my studio or in my workshop. I have quite a few different building projects for this year, so hopefully it is going to be a very fun year in this workshop.
I bought a new dust and eye goggle set for my workshop- it’s really a mask for dirt bike racing but it just so happens to work perfectly in the workshop to keep wood bits out of my eyes and out of my throat.
Theme: Re-Creation
Year Nine Of My 365 Project
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Reflective of my current thoughts…
Theme: Devoid Of Color
Year Nine Of My 365 Project
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