Voodoo Child v. 16: it doesn't have to be eternal to be immortal.

I was prepared, rather, to do this entry tomorrow as opposed to today. I am wrapping up month #3's project of digital photography tomorrow, and I'm a little sad about wrapping it up. It's been a productive month, albeit I did get started a little late...it was hard to switch gears after my trip to Chicago.

I've been thinking...that it's been interesting carrying around two cameras these few days, one my trusty 2.0 megapixel Nikon and Mango's 5.0 megapixel Canon. I do prefer my Nikon, truthfully. The pictures are so much better than his, but don't tell him that. I do think it's time to upgrade though - it loads so slowly, and I think that's what the Canon does better. From on to a shot, it goes so fast. Nikon needs to wake up, warm up, blink the sleep out of its eyes, and then can finally take a picture.

Back to why it's so interesting: the camera really does help me see things a little better. I want to stop and capture things now, not that I didn't want to do that before, but I have a fearlessness about stopping, whipping out the cammy and taking a picture. I am excited for August because it's going to be my 35mm month, and I'm debating about using my Lomo or trying to fix Dad's old SLR. I shoot so much better with my Lomo in that spontaneous style, but the SLR can't be beat.

Another interesting thing has popped up: I'm continuing to write poetry, even though that month has long passed by. Maybe perhaps I bought some new pens from my favorite store EVAR: Kinokuniya. Check out the pens. Dope, aren't they? I want to buy more! I didn't expect that I'd want to write more after having such a challenge with writing poetry, but it's paid off in ways I can't even explain. I hope the same thing happens for me with photography.

I'm a little remiss about next month's challenge: video. While I do have a video camera, it's just a little unwieldy to do video. Photography was easy enough, but I can't just whip out the video cam. Kinda weird. But I'll try to figure out what I'll do with it. 

I'm almost embarassed when people ask me when they're going to get to see my work. I'm a little surprised that people would care enough to ask, but I'm going to post it probably on my flickr soon enough. I am getting closer to finalizing my invitation list for the beatsrhymesnlife anthology, and the email is forthcoming. I am really excited about that opportunity, and am looking forward to putting that out. I am also realizing that if everything works out right, I'll have enough this year with the Year of Creativity Project to put out my own stuff as well. Assuming of course I can edit everything down, you know?

At any rate, the experience thus far: exhilarating. Some of it was very difficult so far (novel writing killed me), but its payoffs are pretty cool. Three months down, nine more to go! But um, two of those months, July and November are unclaimed. If any of you have any bright fuckin' ideas of what you want me to do on either of those months, I'll gladly entertain the notion. Put it in the comments.

Voodoo