07:23 AM
There is an overwhelming and unnecessary pressure at the end of the year and the beginning of the next. I’m all wound up trying to either get projects wrapped that I said I would do this year or am plotting the projects for the next year. The swapping of one cheesecake calendar on the wall for the next one is an arbitrary constraint. An artificial deadline. No one needs this. Projects, especially the ones that bring enjoyment or relaxation, take as long as they need. Just because I received a bunch of supplies and tools at the end of this year doesn’t mean that I need to rush through a bunch of projects next year.
Just because the calendar says that we are done with 2020 doesn’t mean that 2020 is done with us. Collectively, there is still so much left to do. We will need to retreat every so often to gather strength for the days to come.
Again, I remind myself that this site isn’t about checking off the boxes. And that’s a difficult things to say from a person who really enjoys completing to-do lists. It’s about recording the progress. That progress will come at its own pace.
10:22 PM
Managed to wrangle up a few projects that I cared to photograph. Images are collected and edited enough to present. Now I just need to write them up. I look forward to sharing them.
I played around with a couple of ideas for how I want to shares those on the site. WordPress turns out has a couple of ways to do this. A while back, galleries and slideshows were incorporated into the architecture of WordPress. They function very differently. A slideshow is very much what’s described on the tin: A collection of images that can be viewed individually in a rotation. Galleries, though, are more like a collection of images that are presented simultaneously as a grid or array on the page. It is possible to link the individual images to its original, but that opens to a separate page.
More recently, WordPress introduced the Portfolio. Nested in a portfolio are projects. Projects can be categorized by type. Projects can contain text and images. Galleries and slideshows can also be inserted into projects. This appeals to me because I’m an old school artist-type person. If you are putting up a collection of images on the wall, then you will probably want an artist statement to help lead the viewer to the message you are trying to convey with the images.
This suits me very well. Some projects are about the one thing made at the end. Other projects are about the many things made over a period of time. I will likely have a bit of both. For instance, my first projects will be a collection of 3D pinups that I put together over the past many years; the workbench and storage shelves I built in the garage; and the backpack I designed and fabricated from raw materials. After scanning my photo collection, I saw a couple of other projects that I felt are worth sharing here, too.
Know that I something to share excites me.
