Stretched

I find myself battling for time with all of my dearest mediums.  I love being involved in everything, and am currently coping with specialization as I must dedicate all my time to single endeavors with few outbranching mediums.

Right now, for the Portal fan-film I've had brewing for quite a while, I'm constructing the Portal Gun in my welded metal sculpture class, and I'm also doing another gaming related video.

When I'm not at the shop working on the gun or the assets aren't aligning to work on siad second project, I feel guilty about doing anything else.

I've been working on photorealistic digital painting, and my several projects I've put off have been put off for too long...and I've recently taken up music, whose instant satisfaction in creation is relatively intoxicating.  All the other things I'm involved in I can't even remember right now... oh yeah there's photography... but I'm sure there's 5 other mediums awaiting my return in practice.

For a while there when first learning Logic Pro I dedicated myself to reading the manual for an hour and learnign something new every day.  I'm pretty good in the program right now, enough to supplement anything I can currently imagine doing with my current understanding of music (Thank God I randomly took Music Theory, I would be so lost right now).  This study also carried over to Final Cut Pro, an app I thought I had relative mastery over, but now I'm digging up all sorts of little timesaving tools developed by frustrated editors over time.  Things I used to take 3 steps to do I can now do in one.  It's always fun to learn something new, especially in your most advanced areas of proficiency.

Anyway, even with these so called hard economic times I got another job, albeit not steady nor able to pay a living wage.  Still looking around, but I know this Portal fanfilm will be the one great outlet for all of my skills in film and an exposé to any would-be employers.