this has been one wacky week, huh? glad it’s coming to an end.
today was a surprisingly productive day at work, given the awkward tension that seems to have permeated the office. guess it’s the lack of pajamas to distract me! i’ve been pretty focused on design for just one particular thing, and i’ve kind of swung all they way over the bar on this one. at the outset, i began listing off functionality i needed to cover. i wound up having so many individual pieces to balance and track that i just started designing before i had listed it all, to try and not lose sight of what i was envisioning. i’ve since changed pretty much everything i started with, and wound up with a mutant that i can’t tell whether i hate or i love. it’s a weird, roundabout way of designing. possibly because this particular thing is some kind of crazy fractal nightmare stuff where it seems like every step in the right direction reveals another three paths i have to allow for. but i’m getting there.
it’s odd to think that my job has been my major creative outlet for the past few years now. aside from my d&d campaign, and some random tootlings of the trumpet / flügelhorn, that is. earlier today i watched a snippet from the video installation(s) that rion and i contributed to much ado. not to tootle my own flügelhorn, but that thing turned out incredibly well! it was a true collaboration between rion and myself, and resulted in something very unique. and its nature, as part of a larger whole that was a live event, made it fleeting and somehow all the more special for it. it was such an interesting experience that i sadly rarely think about now.
i’m obviously spending a lot of energy getting my head back in this space, but it’s been a lot of fun. i shamelessly enjoy my own work. and i am ready to get back on the horse. i currently have the single aforementioned written screenplay, and then a handful of other loosely tied together concepts and story outlines for a series of films. that’s where i want to head, but having watched these old pieces, i feel myself wanting to throw something quick and easy together just to get my feet wet again.