this morning i opened lightroom and travelled back to early 2011.

a lot has changed in a year. i’m now working full time in san francisco doing something that i’m really passionate about. i’m learning a whole bunch about web development and strengthening my overall capabilities as a designer. everything kind of effortlessly fell into place. 

sadly i feel like i’ve lost some of the spirit of adventure that was so prevalent a year or two ago. is it because i don’t have enough time or energy now? maybe it’s because i have way too much new stuff i’m trying to do now? or is it because i simply had nothing better to do back in my useless days in rohnert park?

whatever the case i think some prioritization is in order. i’m going to take dan warren’s advice from the lastest issue of imaginefx and focus on achieving three personal goals to the best of my ability this year. as of now, i’m thinking they are:

1. Get better at illustration. I’ve kind of falled off the wagon in the past few months. tumblr was a great motivator for me to post new stuff all the time, i’ve found a bunch of great artists and a few of them even started following me which was encouraging. i’ll start trying to draw everyday again and stop using the fact that i don’t have a cintique as an excuse.
2. Get better at web and design. I was fortunate to get my current job, especially with relatively zero web experience. while i feel like i’ve learned a whole fuck ton in a few weeks I still feel lightyears behind where I want to be (the usual feeling I have about most things I want to be good at.) I’ll keep up with my reading and blog searching and daily html/css doing and hopefully by the end of they year I’ll be doing some cool stuff. I’ve come too far to suck at that.
3. Adventure more. The first two goals are kind of solitary, sedentary things. I feel like shit when I don’t go outside and ride a bike, but my current place of residence just doesn’t have the same aesthetic of sonoma county. part of me misses the chilled out attitude, naturalm rustic feel of rohnert park. no one gave a shit there. here it’s all hustle and bustle. commute and business.  don’t get me wrong, that’s pretty cool but when there is always something to do it’s hard to make time to do something for no reason. i need to find my niche here, gotta get back into photography, gotta get back into doing shit for fun.

so yeah. kind of an unusually long post for me. i was also thinking about switching my blog over to word press since tumblr is a wasteland of reblogs and pinterest-like bullshit. god i hate pinterest.

better than xbox.

i made a new friend today.

quail look like this.