Apology

I thought I might get a bit personal here, or at least that is the sense that I have. I believe that I am a “Jack of All Trades, Master of None.” For example with this blog, When I find the time, I take a cell phone photo and post it, or I write some little bit of a thought. Then I am on to some other task.

Nevertheless, I will not devalue this blogging activity. I am confident that it is productive. I do believe that it is generating many ideas and possibilities for creating a focused body of work—photos of reversed words folded over one another on paper, photos of shadows, a cell phone “pin hole” series, photos of what I observe of the ordinary.

And oddly enough I am posting photos. I would hesitate to call myself a photographer. I am afraid that I would get “caught in the act.” I am very surprised that I am posting photos.

But back to the “Jack of All Trades.” I am interested in so many (technology-based) image making activities. These include “traditional” graphic design (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), web design/development (Dreamweaver, Flash, ColdFusion), creating video for the web (Flash, iMovie, Final Cut).

I know something about all of these. I have worked with each of them, some more than others. I lack focus.

I am writing today because I have a day off from work. I have time. I have time to write. I have time to examine this blogging activity. I have time to be self-conscious. This writing today is strangely exhilarating. Writing with the knowledge that what I write will have public venue is at the same time addictive as well as equally repulsive—characterized by “blogging narcissism.”

I have had enough.

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