Day Zero

Yesterday, while on a random outing with my dude (Henry), we ended up at good ol' Barnes and Noble. We had been out getting food and didn't particularly want to go home, so we went and browsed the books.

We always end up in the same spots - the magazines, the discounted items, the art books - but this time, I found a book I hadn't seen before. The title is 365: A Daily Creativity Journal by Noah Scalin, and however weird this sounds, it was calling to me.

Along with the 365 book, I also purchased a crochet bible, because I was also attempting to finish that skill i started, roughly 6 years ago (so of course I don't remember shit). I got home and dug into the crocheting book, without even looking at the 365 book (yes, i ignored the call). The next day, while being bored with the college football my brother had on, i dove into the creativity.

The subtitle on the book says, "make something everyday and change your life" and I have been looking for a direction to go in recently (whole other personal shit that i'm not going to bore anyone with), and there was something about this book that said, "here's your starting point". The author had done a 'skull-a-day' project where he, well, made a skull everyday. In some way, shape, or form, he made a skull, documented it, and posted it (skulladay.com).

Now, I have already attempted a '365' project back in 2010-2011. I did a photo-a-day project. Since doing the project, the hard drive on my laptop and back up external hard drive went kaput *tears*, and hence, I've sort of lost the motivation. This book sorta pushed me to think about attempting another project. I'm kinda teetering on if i'm going to do a photo-a-day again, or create something daily and photograph it, or hell, maybe ill try my hand at self portraits again. Either way, I'm going to be making something, EVERYDAY (*cross fingers*) and posting it on here.

I've titled this entry as "day zero" because i'm making it my "brainstorming" day. Figuring out the direction (not the complete year, because i sort of suck at planning in advance, but the gist) of what i want to accomplish. I know for a fact, photography is going to be involved. Not just cuz i gotta post something, but because it's partially what i want to focus on. I think for now, i'm just going to complete the daily entries in the book and document them, see what direction that takes me.

ONWARD!