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2/21/2009 Coming up for air Do you ever just feel like you've just woken up - except instead of having slept for a few hours, you feel like you've been asleep for months? I honestly believe I go through periods of mental hibernation. I stop being curious, I get heads-down and focused but I don't end up creating anything - it's more like I go thru the motions of preparation for my next bout of creativity. Then one day just like the proverbial groundhog - it's spring and its time to get busy and creating. This is pretty cyclical for me and I'm sure it all happens for a reason. Blogging's a good example - I see that it's almost been a year since I created any real original content. The last few months have mostly been spent on Facebook passively posting links or commenting on other people's posts. Since I have both a blog and a fairly active Facebook page I've wrestled with the decision on when to use my blog and when to just use FB. I've concluded that I'll continue to use my blog for (somewhat) original content that might be of interest to friends and strangers alike. While hardly state of the art, this site makes it relatively easy to create and format this content to my liking - whereas Facebook's "Notes" feature is pretty damn primitive. Likewise, FB Notes are only viewable to your friends. So expect to see more blogging on any number of topics - I've already setup my FB newsfeed so it will also publish these blog posts on Facebook. As far as creativity goes - right now I'm feeling my curiosity taking me in different directions. Photography is something that I've had on my list to explore more and I've recently discovered a large group accomplished photographers at ArenaNet. One of the reasons I decided to work on the studio side instead of the publishing side of videogames was daily access to creative people. They've certainly made daily work a joy - but I feel like I've barely tapped the potential here. I work alongside some of the most accomplished designers, writers & artists in the industry - and I intend to use that proximity to spark my own creativity. Illustration is only a short hop away from photography in my book - and fortunately there are friends here who are more than happy to instruct. My own drawing skills have atrophied over the years, but I hardly think they're beyond recovery. Writing, photography and illustration seem more than enough to keep my creative plate full for now - the dreamer has awoken. |
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