Back from the Grave

Hello Vlad again

1. Sorry for the almost 2-month hiatus, but life has been hectic. It's been that time where you are thinking of something but have no time. Then when you have time you forget about it. I’ve found or even rediscovered a way to keep track of the things that I need to do. Scheduling my entire day has helped a lot. School assignments, newspaper assignments, personal assignments, lunch because I keep forgetting to eat (see running on E blog post). I will definitely talk about how important that is especially since it is part of the reasoning behind the hiatus.

2. I’ve picked up some new “experiences” and ideas that I am dying to talk about throughout this hiatus. I’m not saying I took a break to get more ideas, it was just a bi-product. Let me explain!

Sometimes in photography, you have to do nothing before you do something. I call it “The Art of Doing Nothing.” While not doing this blog I became frustrated in not doing something I genuinely wanted to do, this lead me to come up with more ideas and things I want to talk about. Applying this to photography. In not taking photos you get to come up with more ideas of photos you want to take. Take this idea as your idleness propelling you into doing more and more.

You need time to procrastinate and be lazy on the couch or bed, laying there until you have 30min to your 8 am class. (Yes I did that, feel free to judge) You aren’t supposed to welcome it just acknowledge that you won’t be doing this again. (I will do this again but at a better time ;)

One thing people should do every day is, take a little sliver of time out to do nothing and think of nothing. Throughout the day our minds are filled with assignments due in 30 minutes, +3 project due on the same day, 2 that are already overdue, 1 more on the way, notes, work, stress, bills, and other God-forsaken things. They are all a bit of noise and the only way to channel all of that is to take time to do none of it whatsoever. This is basically rebooting your thinking process to prevent you from over-heating and blowing anything in a 3-mile radius.

Sorry not sorry for the wisdom, I have to make up for lost time. New blogs will come on Fridays since those are my only free-ish days. I’ve turned the same leaf over again and keeping it this time… I hope… if you don’t see another one you’ll know what happened...