Journal

Adobe Lightroom Video

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The same edit controls that you already use to make your photography shine can now be used with your videos as well! Not only can you use Lightroom’s editing capabilities to make your video clips look their best, you can also copy and paste edit settings between photos and videos, allowing you to achieve a consistent aesthetic across both your photos and videos.

Benjamin Warde on Adobe’s Blog: June 2022 photography releases

I have never applied a concentrated effort into shooting a quality video because I’ve been so comfortable with photos. Video editing is difficult and expensive. This seems to be a simple solution for beginners such as myself and I am digging it’s simplicity so far.

Patience

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These past few weeks I’ve made concentrated efforts to be more mindful of my language and attitude. I find myself swearing less (sorry Mom,) and exhibiting more patience with a lot of success.

A challenge to myself is one of patience towards others or circumstances.

The next time I am inconvenienced, or waiting for what seems too long, I am figuring out how to make the most of it. For me it is a moment to relax, and observe. It’s also a fantastic time to meditate and calm down.

Damned Cursor

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The cursor blinks at me in a passive-aggressive way.

It’s blue, sometimes white line set against a black screen taunts me because I haven’t typed anything in weeks and it shows.

To create something from nothing, to not being able to think about anything interesting at this point is frustrating.

This is just a simple blog post for a simple web site, yeah?

Choose Your Ignorance

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The world contains far more information than any single person can learn in their lifetime. The question is not whether you are ignorant, but what you choose to be ignorant about. Few topics are worth your precious time. Choose what you pay attention to with great care.

James Clear

Media Log- May 2022

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“There is now a little question that how one uses one’s attention, moment to moment, largely determines what kind of person one becomes. Our minds, our lives are largely shaped by how we use them.” – Sam Harris

In other words, we are what we consume. I want to create a monthly log of my media consumption that tracks my passivity, and cultivates my creativity. Example: If I go further, I could map how reading a book sparks a desire to see a show based on it for a broader perspective. A podcast could point me towards a book I otherwise would have passed up.

I’ll attempt to track the shows and movies I stream (no cable service for me!), books I’ve read, podcasts/music I’ve listened to and the rare YT video I watch. This second edition to the media log rounds out the month of May.

Views

The Toy

Top Gun

Top Gun 2

Worth the 30 year wait

Fifth Element

Frasier

F1 racing- Barcelona

F1 racing- Monaco

Sergio Perez for the win

EUFA championship

Madrid 1-0 over Liverpool

Stranger Things S4 pt 1

Strange New Worlds

Books (April/May)

Laser Writer II

Debt- the first 5,000 years

The Utopia of Rules

Bullshit Jobs

Podcast

Not Lost

iPhoneography Podcast

Music

Streaming Audio Denbow playlist

That’s all for the month of May!