Needing inspiration

Posted by stephen on Saturday, 13th August, 2005 @ 23:35

Well, it's seems I've done an excellent job of making some high tech tools available to me that could allow me to explore all sorts of creative outlets.

I'm all tooled up to write (both on this site and any fictions that may come to mind), to produce music (probably the least likely avenue I'd explore), to produce photographs and art (even 3D stuff) and to produce film (probably the one I'm most excited about).

I don't know if I've got much talent for any of that stuff. But I'm free to explore myself and find out, which I think is pretty exciting.

The only major barrier left is being inspired, finding something that gets me excited enough to actually drive me into making something.

The really cool thing about all this is that most of the stuff that I've mentioned above has been enabled by a single tool, my Mac. I suppose it could be said of any computer, but the Mac gets me most of the way there out of the box, and I think more than any other computer I've used, it gets out of my way and lets me do what I want to do.

I guess it's made me less of a geek in a way. Computers feel more like a means to an end now, which they absolutely should be. Before I treated them as an end in themselves.

Oh well, at least I've been inspired enough to write another blog entry!