So things are both more and less this week. Obviously it’s a week late, or contains two weeks, however you want to think about it. More inside.
My wife is away, family things to tend to. This affords more time for my own things, and some care taking things she usually tends to (i.e. garden). Maybe it’ll get me hooked, idk. But her concerns are my concerns, so it’s been an emotionally taxing week. The coming week isn’t looking to be any better.
Two advances this week. Ok, really there were three.
First, I made a suburban recording up on the hill in front of my house. Over 25 hours of raw recording, with the intent to record the wind in the trees during the afternoon blow through1. Hopefully I’ll get a few hours of the wind, after trimming the construction workers, the yard workers, and the folks walking by on the path having conversations. We’ll see.
Second, uploading the long overnight recording of night 2 in Death Valley, at Coyote Canyon, is imminent. There have been lots of annoying hangups on my post processing that I am still ironing out. I would really like a script for it, but that seems to be easier said than done.
Which brings me to the third half of progress here: made some advancements in understanding ffmpeg, and am trying to just remember my manual process for doing this. It will get easier with practice, but I would rather not rely on my memory or incomplete notes. I am going after all of that surface area, but also just trying to get caught up on my back catalog of recordings. I think I have over half a dozen long files to get out there. Can’t improve the inputs if I don’t ever get to the outputs.
I don’t remember how I got to doing it, but I went through my recent photos over the last 6 months and looked for the themes. I avoided labels of what your “supposed” to make pictures of, because if I’m honest, I doubt I really have a solid understanding of what all that means. They’re just words, and maybe some collections of pictures to go with them, and it’s left up to the viewer to decide what it really means. Maybe there was a side of ego in there too. I’m trying to put all that away and look at what I am interested in, what gets me excited in my own photos. Not some art that I’ve seen that I want to mimic. I watched at YT of someone’s Antarctica trip, and it was very very cool2 and exciting etc etc. And no doubt I would have a good time if I ever get the chance to do something like that. But there aren’t any pictures of Antarctica in my archives. So I went looking for what was in there that tickles my own resonators, even it’s just the potential of the photo and I am annoyed at some aspect of the reality of it. Why did I take that photo, something got me excited about it.
I found 25 themes in there. And I started to organize photos with tags and folders and stuff. It’s a lot of admin work. I’m taking it easy on that, no need to burn out. There’s no rush. I do wish that the iOS tools were easier to work with. I’m trying to figure out how much LightRoom, how much Photos to deal with to try and get it all straight. As the different bodies came together and confirmed the different themes, I also tried looking for some work by others that is similar. That’s probably going to be difficult. I might have to ask for help.
I also printed a couple of photos. One is framed, it’s for the kitchen. It’s a loaf of bread that I baked a few months ago. The others are hanging on the wall, temporarily, unframed, to get a feel for them. One has already been rejected, I see what I did that I didn’t like, and hopefully I’ll remember to look for that when I try to make another similar photo. And not just of that particular subject either.
I mostly used the tools that I added last time. Iterated a little on the two projects. Did a single work from my pre-plotter days on the plotter. Mostly still trying to formulate the correct next move.
Several good “odd an unusual thoughts” collected. Not sure what to do with those yet. Sort of echoes my efforts in the photo themes department that I was mentioning above.
Made more progress on Darwin, speaking of which I’ll read some more of that tonight. I also read a few random sections of the a book on Complexity. I’m trying to decide if I should keep it or not. It might not be written for me.
It’s a fallow month. Exploring some other ideas, playing with them a little. Nothing committed though. This is fine.
Wins this week: pasta con squash.
Plans: a loaf of bread for egg and cheese sandwiches.
Tending the garden. Literal garden.
Note that I2. Drawing, I4. Synthesizers, I11. Family Tree, and I12. Astrophotography are all deferred to later times. I identified several other interests beyond I12 that were not yet numbered and are also deferred to later. I10. Travel is not really an ongoing concern to so only added in as needed.
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