i've been working hard over the last six months to try and build up the audience on my courses, just recently that has involved daily recording, editing, posting, distributing and the usual 'social sharing' that we have to do to raise awareness and attention to 'anything' these days.
i realised this morning that i've really missed getting out with my camera and making - in summer i was out with my trusty oldskool ixus 200 IS (720p) playing with and making cinemagraphs - turns out i love doing it and i want to do more so badly to fill the other sister site to nomad.pictures the video version, nomad.video
YOUTUBE CINEMAGRAPH PLAYLIST <<< if your interested in what i was making in summer.
i'm not going to lie, the last year has been a struggle, i've not earned a lot and i've been barely keeping myself afloat each month, i'm behind with rent and that looms over me each day, it's the thing that keeps me going that keeps me so focused on trying to change things for the better - i've been trying to be less about material things but right now having a new camera to shoot some cinemagraphs at 4k would be perfect - i'm desperate to get back to that.
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you see i promised myself that if i could not fit in and play the 'game' of the 9 to 5 job without expressing my distain for the ways things are run, how submissive we become in those job roles that i would just be a great, loving father. that i would work around the money aspect somehow, teach my daughter to understand what to feel loved felt like. i mean, we should do that anyway but i see so many parents dragging their kids around town centres and just not connected to them like i feel i am with my daughter - she is literally my favorite human being.
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it's not that i don't want the best for her with all the spoils and trappings and experiences of this world. those at times of course cost money, at least in the sense we know it. the world we are heading into (i'm unsure how much human world we might have left sometimes) is going to be different, financials and money will have to be different, value and trust and authenticity rattle around my brain like some distant reminder to remember to share that with my daughter.
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so i turn up everyday right now, making. creating, sharing. progressing forward and skimming a little bit of cream for myself of the top while i still have a roof over my head, heating and food in my belly. i know in some ways i'm blessed. other people are fighting today to stay alive. i feel for them too, hell most of the time i feel everything when the earth rumbles underneath reminding us we are on the spinning rock
i turn up everyday because i have too. i want too. i believe in me and i sure as hell believe in her, her spirit and her smile, the way she looks at things, the gift of love that she gave to me. it's my duty to fight for better days, better days we can share together and make super memories from - i'm so looking forward to getting that camera.
we have so much to capture yet!
http://socialgandalf.com/legacy → pinterest epic wins pinboard → i was a brand advocate for nokia, 1000heads, verisign → won a vloggie for involvement in node666 (san francisco 2006) → on television for time team history hunters 1999 (burton on trent) → sold me.dm to evan williams (twitter) in april 2011 for 5 figures → went to phil campbell, alabama to help repair/recovery/help raise money month after a tornado ripped through the town (was on sky news, bbc news, al jazeeza, nightly news, alabama weather channel?!) → CNN for sxsw 2013 about austin south by southwest event → video chat with robert scoble from rackspace → i was in a music video can you spot me? → won the digital derry contest for 5k euros to kickstart web tv studio → did project work with sleepydog indirectly for nesta (responder) → crowdfunded digital signage concept called the pi street (do it for steem?)
