I am an amateur DJ. I recently upgraded my DJ setup to accommodate digital mixing while retaining its feel that I have grown so used to in the last 10 years. Even so, I run into controversy now and then when I speak of it. Theres quite a lot of DJs that want nothing of digital, and that’s fine, as it’s an artform, and each artist deserves to use their favorite medium. However, I thought I’d explain why I converted (although i didn’t “convert”…my setup plays vinyl beautifully).
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Sometimes, creating website layout templates can get…boring (I did create this wordpress template from scratch, however, and it was kind of fun). I use Photoshop more for art than I do professional design. i shall be scouring my hard drive to create a gallery of my personal favorites. I hope you enjoy.
(PS: Let me know if you run into any bugs.)
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Zen in the Art of Archery is a book written by Eugen Herrigel, an early European philosopher and student of Zen. Originally published in 1948, it is a an influential source in the development of Western interpretations of Zen Buddhism.
I was assigned this book to read while taking an evening drawing class. This book has since become very influential on how I now approach my work and my learning.
A passage that struck interest immediately was near the beginning of the book:
“No mystic and no student of Zen is, at first step, the man he can become through self-perfection. How much has still to be conquered and left behind before he finally lights upon the truth! How often is he tormented on the way by the desolate feeling that he is attempting the impossible! And yet this impossible will one day have become possible and even self-evident”
What first struck me was the idea of how much has to be left behind. Lately, I’ve felt like I’ve smacked right into a brick wall, and was rapidly losing interest in my work. Returning to the beginning of each field I am studying has been the best decision I have made with my career since it began. Early lost thoughts and memories come back into play, and become reconnected with new thoughts and memories. The joy that this brings hits more at the spiritual level than it does at the logical and procedural levels. I now enjoy the learning process, as I don’t have as strong an interest to reach the “end”, as there is no ending as I now perceive it.
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Hello, my name is Courtney, and this is my blog. This is a true web log, as I need a place to write down my daily experiences so I don’t forget. I am a web designer, graphic artist, part-time musician & budding 3D artist.
This blog is primarily about discovery, as I am attempting to take my skillset up to another level, with hopes of converging all I love to do into something workable. I hope you enjoy it.
-Court
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