Thoughts about the project

Have been working the better part of the day. Not with things that really need to be done like cleaning or so.

No, I have been submerged in my new project.

So the better part of this day I have been busy creating templates, creating a workflow in Dreamweaver, making the buttons for the galleries, modifying the Lightroom standard HTML-galleries so as of January 1st I can start with my project.

Now the only thing to do is being creative.
Had a talk about this project just yesterday. Told her, I’m engaging myself in taking one meaningful image each day. She looked at me as if I had asked something immoral, she stayed silent for a moment, took a sip of her drink I had bought her, looked at me with these beautiful eyes I would love to drown in.

This is really something stressful she said. Trying to create something. Hell, day one will be okay, maybe even day 30. But what then, when will art be overcome by pressure to do even better than the day before?

I thought about that for a little while, what she had just told me was true. Being creative, each day, doing something that is worthwhile of sharing with the world, it suddenly seemed like an impossible mission. She said, your project seems like a Twitter thing, something you do on Facebook, a photo a day. How stupid is this?

She is right and in a way wrong too. It was just a discussion over some beers, you can exchange ideas with a perfect stranger and the result can be at least satisfying. But it remains shallow as you don’t know each other. You have no idea what makes the other one tick. Saw her leave, in another world I would have asked her for her cell number. I didn’t though, regretted it later on that evening. Things can’t be undone.

At home, drinking a beer, smoking a cigarette, I was thinking, hell, this is a serious engagement I’m taking. 366 Images, every day one, can I coop with this? When will stress kick in?

After the third beer I got more serene about this project. It is no more than being aware of what is happening around me. Seeing and seizing the moment.

How difficult can it be?

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