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Don’t let yesterday’s post fool you .. 10 minutes after writing it, I took 61 photos of the world around me. Of course, I couldn’t capture what I saw .. maybe I just need a better camera, or maybe the camera needs a better owner .. or maybe I should just enjoy something beautiful as it’s happening .. at least for 20 minutes next time.
I’m sitting outside looking at the blue sky breaking through the clouds after the rain earlier today. This is the most beautiful day I can remember .. I can’t even capture it .. I won’t even try .. I would never be able to capture the smell and the crisp cold wind and the world all around .. So i’ll just sit out here and I’ll enjoy it.
So I got the new Zelda and I’ve been thinking of getting the strategy guide but for some reason it feels like I’d be cheating … Is it really cheating? I mean .. If I was really there on some random quest – and I knew there was a guide, I’d be crazy not to use it. I would already be using magic whistles and stuff like that, why not just read the script?
In this world, if there was a strategy guide to life, wouldn’t we get it – read it – and refer to it everytime we ran into an insurmountable problem? I would ..
Jamie sure is amazing .. I couldn’t imagine what I would be had I not met her. I just wish I could sort of slow down this time in my life – right now – when we can actually spend time together – no pressing issues .. healthy .. no distractions .. but I feel like it’s flying by so fast. It’s strange, I wish I was better at savouring these moments in my life .. a peaceful morning in a diner .. if I could just pause it and stretch it out forever.
This is a picture of some of the people who come over to our house every Tuesday. Chris sort of just put the camera on top of the fridge in our kitchen and took a picture. From left to right it’s: Atticus, Craig, Aimee, John, David, Stacy, Chris, Heidi, Jamie, Josh’s girlfriend, Josh, Lisa, and Seth.
I feel like all these different ideas .. all these projects floating through my head – they seem to finally be coming together – They are defining the next project’s objective and slowly pushing me to imagine ways to instill wonder and beauty into it. Over the past year my perspective has changed so much – so fast – I’m worried that if I finish something big .. by the time I’m done it won’t even matter any more or it will be missing the point .. This is partly because of what happened with Laika .. partly it’s my regrets on who I was when I made Kingdom. I just want to do it right – I don’t want to waste any more time.
I can see it though. In this past year I can see everything becoming much clearer… It’s not getting worse, it’s getting better. What’s amazing is that the objective is defining itself .. All I’m being asked to do is make it real. I am certain I can do that.
It’s the middle of the night and it’s raining again. It’s almost warm enough to go lay in it and wait for tomorrow to come. Or maybe I should just go back to sleep… They discovered riverbeds and lakebeds on Saturn’s moon, Titan. They’re saying that it’s strangely similar to earth. In some ways I’m comforted by the fact none of us have any idea what’s going on out there. Sometimes everything seems so simple .. sometimes everything seems impossibly overwhelmingly complex.
I read somewhere that the reddish images of Mars are probably not accurate. That it’s really sort of a greyish-blue sky. I think I’ll go outside before the rain stops ..
There is this red light that keeps blinking when I drive. I’ve done a surface check but everything seems fine. It just keeps blinking. I’m just waiting for the huge disaster growing somewhere inside my car.
This is sort of how I feel about everything.. how I see the world. I don’t know why. It’s strange. In the center console I have this little fortune I keep meaning to throw away… Something about dealing with problems before they arise.
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that means that David opened the hood and didn’t see anything spraying or smoking and closed it before he made anything worse… just like i do.
oops…I deleted my first comment “what’s a suface check?”
(I guess that’s what that little garbage can means).
Yes.. it’s true. And I finally took it to Saturn and they said that the coolant level was too low… hmm..
This is from the Starbucks holiday party yesterday. I thought I’d include this for those of you wondering what a Christmas tree made out of venti cups looks like…
I hear that if you move it, it falls apart.
This morning at Starbucks I saw this red car with it’s lights on.. I was waiting for the guy to back up his car.. then I realized it wasn’t a guy…
that dude is ugly!
Katy 9:27 pm on January 30th Permalink | Log in to Reply
Man… David those pictures are awesome!! I think it’s a great thing that you think pictures don’t do justice to what you can see… because then there would be no point in trying to capture beauty, even the imitation of beauty. People would stay indoors, looking pictures of nature instead of immersing themselves in it.
You did the best thing by creating a memory for yourself with a picture but still realizing that the emotions you felt, the wind on your face, how the rain sounded and smelled… was the complete experience. That’s the thing about cameras. They’re wonderful for triggering memories, but they don’t have that special capacity that humans do… to throw uplifted hands in the air, turn slowly in a circle and feel cool drops of rain on our faces. That’s a true gift, eh.