Not a complete list, because I am notoriously lazy about logging these things. But overall, I did manage to surpass my goal of 22 books in 2022.
Next year I want to integrate more non-fiction titles which is a challenge for me. I read books to escape reality as opposed to reading about reality.
Also, I’ve updated the Library page to include 2023 books to be read and a rating system.
Time to make the opportunity to review my backlogged photos, and a new opportunity for me to make new photos.
Not photo “editing”, instead, photo culling and photo curation.
The art of choosing the photos you care for, the art of image selection. If I shot a thousand photos, which few photos will I select that I want to hold on to?
Now that I have all my images organized in the Archives on one external hard drive, it is time to cull and curate. Keep the keepers and remove the rest.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
– Steve Jobs
7:00am
Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States: ☁️ 🌡️+42°F 🌬️↓14mph
I decided against using Flickr, because again, another subscription. Why bother with that when I already have Adobe Portfolio or any other photography platform like Glass, when I have my main photography website? So, I just created a mobile photography site as an add-on.
I have finally migrated all the posts published so far in 2022 from ChrisDenbow.com into Brainiac.
Your birth certificate proved that you were born. Your death certificate proved that you died. Your photographs proved that you lived.
G. Stanley
“Is not this a glorious time of year for your deep inward fires?”
Henry David Thoreau
November is a great month to stoke those internal fires.
Over the past thirty years, I still struggle in figuring out the ideal camera which will best suit my photographic needs.
I want a camera to always be ready to shoot, but I can’t always bring along a DSLR or mirrorless camera because they are bulky. And who wants to carry a big camera bag everywhere? This leaves out, my Nikon, Canon and Sony professional cameras.
The digital camera that does fit those criteria is the iPhone but it is not perfect, however it is currently the least bad camera which exists for my needs. This is the main reason I purchased the iPhone 13 Pro Max- not perfect but it is portable and does not need a bag.
I don’t plan on printing images taken from the iPhone so I can go ahead and minimize the format and the size of the photographs taken with it. Sure, I could shoot RAW images with the iPhone camera app, but why? Space is a premium, even though I have plenty of storage space on the iPhone and my external drives (future-proofing.)
DAM
I discovered too late, what it means to have a digital asset management (DAM) system. I can create all these photos, and publish/share them to but am currently limited by my hosting plan. This is not sustainable. Should I invest in an unlimited subscription to Flickr or SmugMug again? So for now, I’ll just shoot in a small, .jpg format to save space.
Future Usage
I want to eventually explore other platforms for publication such as audio and or video podcast, e-books, newsletters, digital zines, etc.
A scary thought occurred to me during a 3AM quick stop to the bathroom and back to bed: “Do I want to maintain or keep my 22 year-old website?” I woke up a few hour later and wondered if I dreamt this, but then realized this was an idea worth considering.
I have always considered this website as a public journal. Yes, I have posted a ton of articles regarding my experience with the latest gadget or software. These were designed for me in mind to help look back and think, “okay, this was cool”, or “what the hell was I thinking?” But others throughout the social internet (NOT social media) have come to appreciate these articles as well.
I do not want to give up writing or journaling altogether and am thinking of keeping it local. Keep it simple, private and future-proofed in a .txt format inside Brainiac, the self-built database.
I’ll keep my web domain name and personalized email address, however. Having your own slice of the WWW is fantastic. My server hosting subscription runs out in late February 2023 so I have until then to decide.
That is in the future, I want to look at the present. Today is November 1 and instead of the usual crash and burn delusions of writing a novel every November, I’ll focus on writing a post here every day for thirty days in a row.
No-shave November is off to a great start. The beard is growing out every direction on the compass but it’ll trim up nicely. That’s it for today. Stay tuned for the 2nd of November’s post.
If you’ve been reading along the past few years, you know I am into wall murals in a big way. I finally had a chance to fully appreciate one of the world’s largest augmented reality (AR) murals right here in Tulsa.
Scan the nearby QR code and you become immersed into a new world right there on the sidewalk.
“There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations.”
– Mark Twain
Reading a book on a Sunday allows you to travel and escape. It will get you to think and think more and to ponder and sometimes have an epiphany. It will cause you to want to finally create that plan, write that long over-due letter and go on that hike. Sometimes it’ll get you to cry, to become a page-turner and/or laugh out loud.
Add some light jazz, a good beverage and perfect company and you get that Sunday bliss.
Currently reading “Rising Tiger” and listening to Julian Lage’s “Squint” album.
My website has being going for over twenty years. In that time, technology has transformed my life and the way I write has gone through some pretty major shifts. What was first typed into a frustratingly slow WordPress installation can now be published from a variety of apps with surprising ease, and often now straight from my phone.
It’s amazing to me that I can sit in my car waiting, and type out my thoughts to instantly post online.
I love pushing the “Publish” button, and appreciate even more the ability to do so while I am mobile as opposed to sitting at my computer all the time.
