There is the feeling all to often that when you're bored, you will never be able to find anything to do. No matter how hard you look, think, or try. The couch will end up consuming your Sunday in the same way your hips consume all the calories you have ingested from not moving. The inverse is true as well, when you're busy projects come out of the woodwork and there simply aren't enough hours in the day. That would very well explain why it is now 1:00 am and I am sitting here in front of a computer screen clicking away at my keyboard. It's times like these I am pretty sure my girlfriend Jenny is happy we don't live together. For our lives would be filled with far fewer "I love you drive safe!"s and far more "Turn that damn thing off and come to bed!".
As any follower of this blog would be able to attest to, there has been an influx of posts on here. Far more than I have ever published before. While most of them are short, and further more direct copies from the Pdexposures.TV blog I figure a little cross posting and self promotion wouldn't be the end of the world. So you can see where a portion of my time is being invested lately. For those not aware, doing produced video work is hard. It is even harder when you don't have a crew to write, shoot, edit, upload and promote. To put it in perspective, each minute of completed video takes about 1 hour of work on the back end. This means for your average 10 minute video, you've invested around 10 hours of work. Not exactly cheap if you buy into the whole time is money shtick.
Had this been exactly one year ago. I would have relished the opportunity to do almost anything. For as those close to me know, I was unemployed and struggling to find work. Despite how cool it sounds in your head "Creative Individual and Self Starter" doesn't wow the perspective employees like you would hope. But I was able to occupy myself with various projects, from completing my 2011 365 Project book, to further pushing myself and working on my craft. However working on a project so immense and deep as Pdexposures.TV would have (and honestly would be still) a full time job. There is still so much I would like to be doing for it to help the project grow. Which is how we go back to the 1:00am bit (see I brought that around full circle, impressive no?).
The problem - and it really isn't a problem I'm very grateful for what I have - is that I do have a job now. So there are 40 fewer hours each week to do what I should be doing for these pet projects. Luckily there are simple things that I can do at 1am. Such as get things scheduled to post on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube etc. That is a huge relief knowing that I don't need to be at the computer 24/7 to keep updating various social media outlets. And I know that may come as a surprise to many of you that I'm not actually posting those when they appear in your feed, but life is tough and the magic of the internet brings us some things that are indeed a little peculiar.
But last night I had an interesting conversation. One that started out at point A, and ended up not only at the end of the alphabet, but in a language spoken in a whole other galaxy. We talked, discussed ideas, mentioned how we should have written things down, looked at other projects for inspiration, and how to take the first very big step. I know I sound vague, and that is intentional. As I don't want to jynx something that could be very fun and rewarding down the line. But to make a long story short, it seems as if there may be something coming back into the lime light. The project that started it all for me, the project that lead me down the path that I am in today, the project that got me the job I have today, that got me the girlfriend I have today, and that got me the passion for photography that I have today.
Only time will tell if things actually come to light, but from the position I am in; at my computer desk at 1:00am on a Saturday night staring into the bright luminescence of my monitor displaying the colors of Blogger. It's looking pretty good.
