When I was really little I never liked taking pictures. My reasoning was that why capture something on a piece of useless paper when you can spend that time experiencing it instead.
Then somewhere along the way my hate of pictures gravitated to myself. I started to not like having MY picture taken. Mostly because I started to not like how I looked and I always seemed to be captured when making a really stupid expression. And even if I tried not to I looked like a very uncomfortable and unglamorous statue. Fast forward to now, and all I want to do is take pictures because I feel like I won't remember anything unless I have some sort of visual cue to go by. Thinking about this I find it kind of funny how my view on one tiny thing has varied so much over the years. And if I think about it, my attitude towards this one thing is pretty telling of myself as a person. As a child if I saw something that looked like fun I wanted to do it. I didn't put any other thought into it. As I got older and became a teenager I did not like how I looked (surprise! lol!) and did not want to be reminded of it. Now that I am older my thoughts are usually taken up with so many necessary and boring and frustrating things that I forget about all the FUN things. So I naturally want to capture them so they don't escape! It's funny because I have now come full circle. My mom always wanted to take pictures and I would get so mad. But now I know why! Haha! I still have that lingering dislike of having my picture taken. Though I realize that is just a visual reflection of the fact that I've still not yet accepted who I am. When we're kids it doesn't matter if you look silly. It's all about experiencing life. But for some reason as we get older our appearances and the way we do things matter more than they should. We forget that life is SUPPOSED to be experienced. Not analyzed. Well....maybe not if you're a scientist. Even so, how often do you just do something because it looks fun? And how often do you think about doing something that looks fun but then don't because you can find a million excuses not to? For me the answer to the first question used to be never. And the answer to the second was all the time! But here's the thing: if you keep making excuses, even good ones, you will let life pass you by. I've had some opportunities lately and I almost didn't take advantage of them because they cost money and I'm pretty broke right now. But if I wait until I have enough money I could be 90 years old. Or dead by then! Other excuses I've come up with are: That's too scary, what if I hurt myself, there's too many people, I'll look stupid, etc., etc. And when I say these things out loud they sound pretty lame. So, what am I trying to say? It's cheesy, but if you think about it...it's really true. And that is: SEIZE THE DAY!!!
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Earlier this week I slipped and fell down a ladder. When I came to I had a vision, a picture in my head! A picture of... Actually I'm kidding. Back to the Future anyone? I did slip and fall on a ladder, but it was pretty minor. I CAN tell you that I had a near blackout experience and that it was VERY unpleasant. So what have I been doing this past month that I have not wrote any blog entries? Besides falling down ladders anyway... Well, as you may have noticed I've been slowly updating and changing the site. I've been creating a handful of original designs. I've also been working on my first yarnbombing project and planning out other video ideas. So yeah, been pretty busy. Also this week I have been taking pictures of the new shop items for April: These are the ribbed leg warmers. These are in Antique Teal. You'll notice that they match the style of the ribbed infinity scarf HERE and the ribbed arm warmers HERE. These are the ridged leg warmers in the color Yellow and they will also match the ridged arm warmers. These items will have 16 colors to choose from as well. You can taste the rainbow! Yay!
I will be taking proper store pictures of both types of arm warmers and the slouchy hat later this week. So...more pictures to come! I'm really excited about how they came out. In addition to crochet I've found that I really enjoy playing with my camera! So it is important to note that all these pictures were taken by me, of me (I'm the model) and of the actual items. This might sound like a weird thing to say, but I've noticed that a lot of professionally done things these days are SO professional as to seem almost fake and you have to wonder how any of it would relate to or look on an actual every day real life person. So you can be sure that I AM a real person, this is how the stuff ACTUALLY looks, and I am definitely NOT a stick figure. I am a normal size and shape so if it looks good on me it'll look good on you too! =) |
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