{"id":2283,"date":"2012-01-01T00:37:41","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T05:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aboutrc.com\/?p=2283"},"modified":"2012-01-01T00:38:42","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T05:38:42","slug":"tacklebox-on-a-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/?p=2283","title":{"rendered":"Tacklebox – On a New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well, 2011 was fun, wasn’t it? Actually, truth be told, 2011 wasn’t nowhere near as bad as I thought it could be. Got a couple of books out.. looks like i’ve put roots down in Florida. Things seem to be looking up! <\/p>\n

Rustling Up Writing<\/strong>
\nYou know, I had spent a good portion of the year not writing as much as I could on the blog. Yes, I know this is going to sound a little bit like a resolution.. but it was one of those things that towards the latter part of the year, I got the itch to write more and more on. In a weird way, I kinda thought that I had two problems going on here. First, I thought the friends that I have would see the blog turn into a giant vat of tutorials that they couldnt really benefit from (I actually have friends outside of my Photoshop\/Photography space). I felt like I would just alienate them if I did that. Then, on the Photoshop and Photography part, I felt like very few people would have any interest in much of what I would have to say that didnt deal with what Filters I used, what Photoshop technique was hot, or what was my favorite FStop. <\/p>\n

Throughout the year however, I feel like the writer part of me has been kind of peeking out. Ive gone back to old journals that I had and reread them. I’ve revisited stories in my head and found new meanings in them. This is stuff I loved to do when I was steeped in English as a major, a degree, and a career. As all of that passed and was covered with my “tech” life, I feel this sense of atrophy in that part of my life. <\/p>\n

Waking Up<\/strong>
\nTwo things happened that started changing that. It would appear that more and more people now are asking me about my opinions on a specific topic more than my settings for a given problem. As i’m masked more about what my feelings are on something, i’ve found myself wanting to share thoughts that are in my head. Turns out – people actually want to listen to them. I’ve even started to use Google Plus<\/a> – and found a welcome community to speak with all sorts of things creative. I find myself sharing all sorts of thoughts, and taking in the ideas and fancies of so many people. I speak. I listen. I practice music. I’m even painting.. which I never thought i’d do. For this, I am forever grateful. <\/p>\n

The second has been watching and reading my friend Joe McNally<\/a> over the past year. Aside from a photographic inspiration and a dear friend – i’ve found an incredible amount of solace in watching the words he writes envelop the images he makes – at some point confusing me as to which I find more inspiring. As i’ve read more, i’ve felt more restless. The more restless I feel, the more careless I become about who or what reads this blog. The more careless I become, the more I find all of these little trinkets of thoughts in my head, waiting to be dusted off and put to some form of use. Joe not too long ago wrote<\/a> about how he thought a recent short that I did called “Proof”<\/a> was a gift to him. I’ve spent the better part of my time free checking out his new book Sketching Light<\/a> just feeling this incredible desire to make an image, and to say something. Truthfully- it was just one way that I could say thank you for helping me realize how much I miss writing my thoughts down. <\/p>\n

So, I guess that’s where i’m at now. I know that I want to be more frequent in sharing my thoughts.. and I know that sharing my pictures here is a good thing to do. I don’t want tp promise a 365 here.. but I can tell ya i’m definitely loving doing this more than I have as of late. <\/p>\n

For those of you who come by and read it.. I too am extremely grateful. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well, 2011 was fun, wasn’t it? Actually, truth be told, 2011 wasn’t nowhere near as bad as I…","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blog","7":"category-photography","8":"cs-entry"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2283"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2288,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions\/2288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}