- January
- 14th
- 2010
Photo by Jesse Fernandez
New Year’s Resolutions for 2010, plan A:
1) Blog more
2) Facebook more
3) Start Tweeting
4) Hang out more on other people’s blogs
5) Add at least 10,000 app’s to my iPhone before year’s end
6) Get my iPhone surgically implanted into my palm
5) Get a feeding tube hooked up to my computer
10) Gain 5o pounds
11) Avoid actual human contact as much as possible (on account of swine flu and all)
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New Year’s Resolution 2010, Plan B:
GET A F–KING LIFE!!!
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I mean really…the interweb is great and all, and I love technology as much as the next guy…but things are starting to get a little ridiculous. The gurus of the week are now telling us that Twitter and Facebook are not just cool and fun, but that we must use them–nay, that our very lives and livelihoods depend on us getting dialed in on the whole Facebook/Twitter/viral constantly-updating content-carnivorous bandwagon of infinite bandwith and instant virtual gratification…That in order for our passions and relationships and businesses to thrive, we must be providing hourly updates to our ten thousand closest friends on our every move…and alert EVERYONE the instant we see something funny or cute or interesting or patriotic or heartwarming or somehow relevant to NOW on the internet…and pass on all the tweets we get from people we are “following” so they will “follow” us…Well if we’re following them and they’re following us, then where the hell are we actually going?
I’m just sayin’…
Look, it’s all good, and I’m not saying I’m opposed to it. Hell, here I am on my blog typing away after all. And yes, I am on Facebook and sometimes use it to shamelessly promote myself. But on the other hand, I worry about us. I worry about all that good organic human energy going to waste as we stare at LCD screens and move our fingers in precise mechanical motions. How far we have come from ages past when we could read the ground beneath our feet like a book, when we would entertain ourselves and our friends and family by singing and dancing and telling stories, when we had time to look up into the sky in wonder, time to pay attention to our own thoughts, make our own music, listen to the wind, hear the wisdom of the sages….
Now obviously some of that stuff got to be a little old or we wouldn’t have moved away from it. But as the techno-train speeds faster and faster to some unknown destination of pure virtual nirvana, are our bodies and souls beginning to atrophy in inverse proportion? Yes, we have learned how to maintain our bodies with diet, exercise, and medical science, but to what end? So we can keep holding on to the wii controller for ten more years? How horribly unfulfilling.
To be honest, my real motivation for this rant is that I’m sick of trying to keep up with it all. Those who are good at keeping your blogs up to date and facebooking and tweeting on a regular basis, I take my hat off to you. And I do solemly swear to try to at least blog a bit more regularly in the coming year…Already the guilt I am feeling about all the great blog posts I didn’t make this year is unbearable….”The Ole Swimmin’ Hole”–an ode to the fresh-water respites of the Appalachian summer (which the NYTimes put on hold because it was incomplete, and then summer ended)…”The Holy City”–a small piece on Charleston, SC, where I went on assignment for the New York Times this past August, and fell in love with the architecture, the swampy air, the smell of horse piss and the echoes of history and aristocracy….”The Island of Flowers”–a little travel piece on the island of Flores in the Azores….”Old Boys”–a short pictorial essay of a weekend reunion with my old prep school friends at the Episcopal-Woodberry game (the longest continuous high-school rivalry in America)…”Home for the Holidays”…photos from my family’s first Outer Banks Thanksgiving and Christmas, which came about mainly because our old house in Norfolk was ruined in a flood…we had such a great time..
But that’s all behind us now. Maybe I’ll throw up some of those posts way after the fact, but to be honest, my plate is just way too full to think about it. This year however I pledge to commit more to this blog, and to my web presence in general, even if I have to drag myself back to the computer kicking and screaming after a long day of shooting, editing, answering emails, mailing out prints and books, meeting with clients, working on new book designs and promotional materials, and all the other things that keep money in the bank and keep me feeling like I’m moving my career in the right direction….
Okay, so…today I am heading out to Los Angeles to meet with curators, publishers, photo editors, etc. I barely have room for my camera with all my portfolio books and super-large prints (and my wetsuit), but I resolve to take some pics of SoCal, as my journey will take me from San Diego (where my brother lives) to Ventura (where Patagonia is headquartered)…My old friend Mario Gonzalez, who moved out there a few years back for better surf, has promised to round me up a decent board, so I’ll get to do a little surfing, which will be welcome, since it’s been hovering around freezing here for weeks and I just don’t to the icicle surfing thing…
Shortly after my return, I’ll be heading down to New Orleans to shoot the Carnival/Mardi Gras season, and then ride out the rest of the season working on photo projects and following second-line parades. Rough life, I know. But my bank account is hovering near zero, so it will be an act of supreme magic to pull it all off. All you prospective brides out there, take pity on me and my situation and book me for your wedding! I’ll give you a good deal, I promise:)
Okay, that’s it for this post. Here’s wishing you all a prosperous and fulfilling New Year, and for god’s sake, put that device back in your pocket and do something REAL!!! If only for an hour or two…
:)
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