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Fitness: Back down to 202.0 this morning! I’m debating my workout tonight since I’ve got Concatenation-related things to be doing, but I’ve definitely got another workout like last night’s (the one I wrote about on Friday) in store for Thursday. 200 is in my sight! On to experiences and experiments! |
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As you may have noticed by now, almost all of the things I’ve written about on For the Love of Creativity so far are related to these two topics. I plan to dive a little more into the ideas behind the blog with this post. Experiences I’m a firm believer in that what a person experiences affects aspects of their life in some way or another, whether it be the most exciting of things or the most mundane. I’ve already written a few monstrous posts detailing my past experiences and how they’ve molded who I am today, and I’ve still got a few more of those posts to write. As it stands, my focus in life has been rather narrow in that I really haven’t experienced a broad variety of things. Instead, I’ve chosen to focus on the things that I already enjoy and create new experiences in those areas. I suppose everyone does that in their own way, but I don’t think I’d enjoy doing new things that aren’t related to the things I already enjoy at this point. I’m still full of energy to experience new things relating to the things I enjoy, but broadening my horizons sounds less and less interesting. It’s likely due to the extreme lack of free time I have these days, since work and my commute takes up about a third of my week and sleep takes up another quarter (yeah, I don’t sleep enough). Then again, that’s still about 40% of the week that I have to myself, and I use that to the fullest to experience things in the realms that I enjoy. If you’ve been reading the blog with any regularity, you should know that the things I focus on are music, fitness, gaming, and beer. Sometimes, these things come together and when they do – that’s when the magic happens. For example, if it wasn’t for our love of music and gaming (and game music), the [WCS] would have never come together and all of us would have missed out on close to five years of amazing experiences together. That said, I imagine that once I get a few more goals achieved and a little more time freed up, I’ll be able to shake off these constraining feelings and go broaden my horizons some more. It’s gonna be hard to write about things in blog and story form if I don’t open myself up to checking new things out, so I’m sure I’ll relish the opportunity to once it arises. Experiments I’ve conducted more than a few of these since starting up this blog – as a matter of fact, the blog is an experiment in itself. I wanted to see if I could keep up a weekly blogging schedule and I’ve managed pretty well with it so far. Some days have had better topics than others, but it’s hard to bat 1.000 with something like blogging. This post is proof! I’m always thinking and wanting to try new things, but that doesn’t always mean doing something completely new. Sometimes, I want to set something up that takes elements of the things that I’ve experienced and combines them to create something new. This is where experiments are born. Of course, I can’t go a week without mentioning my Philistine on the Sidewalk project, which is easily my most successful experiment in a while and is breeding more ideas and excitement as time goes on. The project was intended to be solo and internet-only, but now I’ve got people interested in collaborating and I’ve already planned a few albums in various forms of media. I’m getting ideas for t-shirts and I’m considering a monthly or bi-monthly podcast once I get at least 10 songs done. The quality of the project in increasing as well, since the production of the songs is sounding better the more I work with all these new and unusual sounds. In that way, it’s been an experiment to get my production skills better and it’s working quite well so far. Also, I keep finding more and more clips of things that I recorded months and years ago that I can work with to create new music. Concerning the latter, going through all my music folders and looking for “new” material to work with is going to be one of next month’s projects. It’s really starting to expand and I’m surprised at how fast it is as well - not too shabby for a project started a little over a month ago that was an experiment in creating music using only the barest (and rather different) essentials. Since I’m not one to throw all my focus in one pot, I’ve got some more experiments up my sleeve for this year. I haven’t talked about them yet, but most are somewhat related to the ones I’ve already started this year, and they build off of experiences I’ve had with certain things over the years. Conclusion I know as long as I keep experiencing and experimenting, I’ll have a good time with life – that’s the idea, right? Discuss this post at [The Forum of Jason Vincion]! Posted on February 24th, 2010. |
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