24 posts tagged “kuyler”
Sorry about writing here again :). The persistent allure of content creation got in the way of the realization that writing a blog may be a futile effort. However, it's almost summer and I want to start keeping some sort semiannually (lol) updated online journal. That puts your here, once again on the Kuyu Blog.
It's been a while, eh? You'd be appalled at the number of things that I've done since I last posted an entry here. I've written about eight songs, taken tens of thousands of pictures, developed as a photographer and writer, learned to play the piano, drawn plans for houses (it's something to do in Chemistry), told hundreds of jokes, and kept an excellent relationship with Stephanie which is now approaching 1.25 years. I've also designed dozens of websites that I never did anything with (face it, they never got out of Photoshop) and written things that I never turned in to anyone. Which just seems like a waste to me, the guy that always likes to not only show off but to show out. Introversion in the field of creativity... is it even worth writing down? I never understood that one.
I suppose you'll want to know all about the travels that I've taken as well, eh? Well, I'd like to try and impress upon you, you wonderful handful of readers, the magnitude of my journeys through Photography. And maybe a few words, just for effect.
The following shots are all from the trip I took in band to Mexico and Belize by way of Royal Carribean ship Navigator of the Seas. Also, we stopped at Disney World on the way down.
Thanks for reading,
Kuyler
I've done a lot of different things. I think my favorite is taking pictures. I'm not really sure when I started taking pictures, but I know I've always been fairly interested. It just seemed like a perfect blend between technology (something I'm good at by nature) and art (I'm not particularly good with pencils, pens, paintbrushes, crayons, but I can do fingerpaints) I always liked looking at pictures. I thought making them might be fun.
Feedback is a thing to be cherished in this here online world. You see, whenever someone posts a comment, it gets me thinking about the next post. Then I get more comments and more posts. It's a vicious creative cycle.
I haven't really had much to write about in a while, but today I think I'll write a post. Lots of stuff to cover.
A couple of years ago, you could've found me eagerly writing a blog for pretty much every day of the year. That went on for probably two years. Then I sort of slacked off the pace. I still enjoy writing, but sometimes I struggle with things to write about. Writing about my daily life doesn't really work anymore as most days are pretty much nothing to write about that's interesting. And sometimes I worry that I'll write something that I'll think is cool but no one else would understand. Sometimes I worry about my writing not being as good as it could be. It's also time consuming to write something like a blog. That's time I could use to take a hundred pictures and upload them to my Flickr. (I got a Flickr Pro account for my birthday, check it out at http://flickr.com/photos/kuyman)
But sometimes it is fun to write a blog. Sometimes it's just worth the effort involved. If I have a story to tell or a point to make, I'll go ahead and write it. I feel like I should always be able to tell a story worth reading in my blog, but sometimes I just can't. And that's annoying. It's one thing for me to tell you "Hey, I got a thirty foot pool" but it's another for me to tell you how really neat-o that thirty foot pool is. I feel like i can do that better with pictures. That's why I got a Flickr Pro account. That's why I don't write blogs so often. But I promise I'm still going to find time to write my blog and find time to do things worth blogging about, more importantly.
So for now, think of my Flickr Pro account as a Photo Blog. Think of it as an extension to the onlineness of me. Think of it as easier to digest a large amount of information in one dose. Think of it as a nifty place to get new desktop backgrounds ;)
Also I need a small army to tag, title, and descript all of the pictures I'm going to be uploading to my Flickr. Any help with that would be totally cool.
In no particular order
- Learn how to program adequately well for my purposes
- Convert at least one more person to Mac
- Get to the beach
- Finish my website
- Band Camp
- Take at least 3000 pictures
- Blog Frequently
- Compose a whole CD of songs
- Summer Reading
- Hang out with Stephanie and Elyssa
- Go Swimming
In no particular order
- Learn how to program adequately well for my purposes
- Convert at least one more person to Mac
- Get to the beach
- Finish my website
- Band Camp
- Take at least 3000 pictures
- Blog Frequently
- Compose a whole CD of songs
- Summer Reading
- Hang out with Stephanie and Elyssa
- Go Swimming
Kuyman Style means nothing in particular, in reality. It means getting back to the top of the Google Rankings, if that counts for anything. But it doesn't really mean anything particular, other than that.
However I do have a story tell you.
It was the period between twilight and darkness, the time of near darkness while the thoughts of daytime mixed with those of the night. In a park nestled between a small, old school and a large hill, some children played baseball. Boys and girls stood in a line, waiting for a chance to hit the ball. The ball was thrown by John Smith, or at least that's what his shirt said.
His name's not really that important anyway.
As the next girl stood up at the plate to have a chance at hitting the ball, a group of spectators stood just outside the fence, observing a game of baseball.
None of this would be worth telling at all if they had been in the same dimension.
No really, the two ball fields were exactly identical. But the people just weren't the same. Instead of one group of people, there was another, occupying what looked like the exact same space.
Go figure, huh?
In... uh, the fourish years that I've been producing Internet content, I've never really stopped to think why any of it's really important. Never thought why it was important to have stuff out there, to have a presence, even if no one pays a single bit of attention.
After about twenty five seconds of thinking, I came up with this. It's important to have a web presence in order to better yourself. No one's perfect when they start out, but basic human nature is to get better. It's hard to get better when you don't do whatever it is you're trying to get better at. At least a little bit of doing. And at least a little bit of getting better.
I've written well over three hundred blog posts in random places on the Internet, made dozens of forum posts, written close to a dozen websites, composed eight or nine songs (you don't really want to hear those, I don't think), made four or five videos, photoshopped hundreds of pieces of digital art, and taken roughly five thousand pictures, all for an audience in total of less than two dozen. (Approximately) I personally think I'm better because of it. Sure, nobody reads this stuff, but that doesn't mean it's unreadable. Maybe if I had blogged constantly for the last year, people would be reading on a regular basis.
Bust it's just the need to express myself that makes me blog and do all those other things, even if no one reads them. I personally find that the more you express yourself online, the better you get at it. I could be absolutely crazy though.
Not there's no craving for people to read my stuff. In fact I'd really like it if more people did read my stuff ;)
It's a habit of mine, to start something and not finish it, let it sit around for a while, and then start something completely knew. Personality flaw, and I do it all the time. Anyhow, I'm currently trying to re-establish my web presence. Try Googling my name. Depressing, huh? Now try Googling kuyman. Better?
While Googling for kuyman is a lot better than just doing a search for Kuyler or Kuyler McComas, I would like something really cool to pop up in the first place for all of them. I'm still working on ideas for my movie, even though I don't have any real evidence except what's in my notebooks, a bit on my computer, and in my head. And I'm always working on some sort of website for myself or someone else. Writing a bit of "music" in GarageBand, playing around with my camera and Photoshop, and any of a number of other things that no one ever sees.
Maybe someday I can actually finish something.
Until then, enjoy some of my fantabulistic pictures I took in Universal on the band trip.
