Creating
Recent arty web projects
- new website ‘studio’, mainly for personal use
- new weekly newsletter of my art with adjacent web page for readers
Next
- a photoblog of my ‘best’ photos, to complement the newsletter
- home page for my art
- maybe a portfolio gallery in the future
Summer has arrived!
The iPhone takes great photos but I needed to underexpose this raw image by 1.7 stops to get the look I wanted. Minimal tweaks in the edit. 📷
I had a super busy day today. It’s been epic.
I’ve been very creative. I’m in a clarity and inspiration phase. But being careful not to overspend spoons.
A lot of making of art, but also building workflows and infrastructure backend for publishing. Very happy with how it’s going.
I have pushed myself too hard again with chores and things today. I can’t believe it’s nearly 5pm already! I haven’t really been looking after myself, I’m hungry, sleep deprived, and I haven’t been outside yet *stamps feet*
also: 11pm
Would anyone like to sign up for my new arty newsletter? (Photography, doodles, etc). I’m hoping it will help me out with getting back on my feet, creatively.
It’s on PencilBooth and I’ll be sending out the first one this evening..
Holy moly what a track!
I’m sitting in my local Costa, writing for my new art project and this song1 is moving me so much2. It reminds me of younger days and the sheer joy of music I had at that time, and still have. 🎵
It’s been a pretty good day. I took my big camera for a walk. I was out for a couple of hours in the heat. (It suddenly got up to around 20C where I live in the last day or so.)
It felt good to go for a dedicated photo walk. To commit a chunk of my day to deliberate creating was a good move. I felt like I was getting into the zone a little bit again.
I nearly always have my darling Ricoh GRii with me everywhere I go but this time I swapped it out for the Nikon Z5. It’s a camera I’m still a little intimidated by. I’m technically proficient with cameras but I get lost in the differences between brands and models. Overwhelmed by the different systems, menus, and terminology they use.
And of course they have their strengths and idiosyncrasies. This is what I’m still learning with the Z5. It’s taking a long time to get to know it. I feel like I never really ever get there with any camera I’ve owned.
Anyway. I really enjoyed my walk and I got a few shots I like.
I would really love to get them out and published soon but will have to see.
I got super tired, not being used to the warm weather and being in the sun for so long. And I kinda zonked out after and have been feeling a bit lost and wiped out since then.
Photography feeds my soul, but I’m so sensitive I have to pace myself.
I’ve been having a successfully productive day today and I’m about to launch my new project. It’s been years in the making!
I’m excited to have given myself a fresh way of sharing my art. Feels really good.
If you’d like to receive the first email, pop me a message. Email link below this post
Making a new intention:
I intend to spend less time consuming, and more time creating. For this is what gives me energy and feeds my soul.
I received a notification that my photos were ready in Hipstamatic. And it took me through this little process of opening an envelope and pulling the photos out one-by-one. Very cute!
Recently, the Hipstamatic X app on iOS has received a much needed upgrade. So I’ve been playing around with it today after a few years of hardly using it. I’m impressed! I grabbed a few photos today on my walk using my home made preset called Thistle, which I updated to add one of the flashes (not sure I like it but I love my base preset).
The photos are set to “develop later”. A cute idea! Apparently I’ll get a notification later when they’re ready..
Here’s my neglected membership page: https://hipsta.app/@Aeryn
Blog Notes and Changes to Being Me, and Art by Aeryn
I decided to split this blog up.
aeryn.me
- It all began as a catch-all blog on the Micro.blog platform (previously on Blot). Just for anything I was working on.
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And that suited me very well. I’m a haphazard creator and just need to go with that until stuff begins to make sense.
Then Micro.blog upgraded their
I need to better prioritise creating. By the time I do all the things I need to do, I’m too tired for some the things I want to do. Like making, creating, expressing, building.
Creating is a need. Creating is living. It’s oxygen.
I reached out to a blogger I’ve been following for a few months to respond to a post they made about feeling unappreciated. And they replied telling me my email meant a lot.
It can feel pretty lonely being a creator. I feel it. It’s hard going.
Anyone reading this, I appreciate you.
Pencil on paper.
Feels good to be sketching again. This heron is from my photo of about a week ago. 🎨
Still pondering how exactly to use my additional Micro Blogs. Whether to have completely separated blogs, or have some overlap, in terms of whether some posts are duplicated or not. And how all this would work with newsletters, and cross-posting to Bluesky. And whether to create an extra account for posting to the feed. Hmmmmmmm..
I’m looking forward to ordering a new iPad soon. My 2022 iPad is almost unusable to create on because I ordered the 64GB base model to save money.
I’ve been taking my time to decide how to implement an additional blog(s) on my Micro.blog account. I used to be the kind of person that would be all in and create too many things that overwhelm me. These days I’m learning to hang back and see what feels best, creatively.
Today I learned to play a bit of Love Will Tear Us Apart on bass guitar. The first tune I’ve ever played on guitar. (And a bit of a Stone Roses song too).
It was a very joyful moment.