Since getting back into the swing of university lifestyle, I've relearned and revalued the importance of establishing a clear link between the creative journals I keep, and my online presence through my PPP blog. I was quickly flicking through it last night when I suddenly realised: "Shit. I take a lot of notes. I could make entire blog posts out of some of the paragraphs I've scribbled into here". So I'm going to do that. Setting up that connection will massively boost productivity, because let's face it. Online blogging & creative journaling, they aren't enemies, they're simply singing the same song on two different octaves! And it's not just going to be useful for PPP either, I make countless notes by hand in studio whilst others do the same or frantically type into their laptops, so getting up to date with my thought processes in other modules will be certainly beneficial too.
So to start with, heres a quick round up of the stuff that's going on in my creative life: (I may go on to expand on some of these with their own blog posts if I feel it's necessary)
- It would probably be beneficial to do a round up of last years PPP, to reflect and build upon this and to assess how I've changed as a designer. It's also potentially worth sitting down and reading through all previous creative journals from last year too for the same reasons.
- I aim to do a quick write up on here about how my new living arrangements have influenced, boosted, and hindered my creative drive. I've got total freedom now, and that's sparked some interesting things that I look forward to sharing.
- Because of the freedom I now have in my living space, it's given me the opportunity to visually demonstrate the thought processes I've had and organise them to make them look more interesting, and seem more achievable. But I'll talk more about my genius system of thought & idea representation in a separate blog post, and I'll write up the individual ideas I've had in blog posts to come.
- I want to get a roll of white paper to make an infinity board, to bridge the gap between amateur and professional photography at home. I can't stress just how much the importance of quality photographs mean to me. They're so useful for representing work.
- I have a new app: 'Balanced'. It helps me focus on the productive and creative parts of my life, and do more of them, as opposed to lying in bed doing nothing. Procrastination can go f**k itself.
- I've been watching a lot of lectures and motivational videos on YouTube and Vimeo, it's definitely worth giving a quick write up on here for each.
- I'm going to start integrating more of my own lifestyle and what I choose to do in my free time into my PPP blog, and try and make an understanding of how it's relevant to my practice. I want to talk more about books I'm reading, documentaries I've seen, films I've watched, new bands I'm listening too, technologies I'm pursuing, magazines I'm keeping up with, my decisions and choices when it comes to fashion & style, gigs I'm going to see, my thoughts on what's happening in the news etc. And I think the best way to tackle this is to commit to doing at least one blogpost on creative life through my PPP blog everyday. This attitude will hopefully feed through into other modules too.
The last point is especially important. And not just for academic purposes, but so that I can concentrate on being a reasonably interesting person on top of all this. PPP is just a formal way of me scribbling down a lot of my creative thought processes. It's important to me that I do well academically, but at the same time it's about finding that balance. Enjoying myself, and stimulating myself with interesting stuff is important to me too.
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