The Journey

A goal is starting to take shape – there is a destination.  I’m that kind of person, I thrive on seizing objectives.  Does that sound a little Army like?  Yeah, I guess that’s what you get when you spend most of your adult life as soldier.  Thus I display snippets of a past life here again today.  But that’s neither here nor there, the point is there is a goal – things are starting to take focus.  And I realize it is a two pronged approach that I’m after.  To begin with, I have to breathe some life back into TEAM TEN Tops & Tees and get that to bring in the initial funding for the photo project.  The project is another iteration of the Objectivity Project and I think it’s going to be a compelling body of work.

Yes, the journey is all too important but I really need to know where I’m going to begin with.  Truth be told, I feel better now – I have target.

8:30am, Breakfast, Jan 23, 2004 in Iraq.  We were at our halfway point where we spent the night.

 9:00am, Preparing before we hit the road.

 3:00pm, Our destination – the team we were changing out at the 3^rd ACR’s forward operating base.

6:00pm, Dinner, before we closed out the day on another journey in Army boots.

Things That I Have Done, 3

Here is the last video I created in Final Cut Pro X for my Digital Motion Imaging class.  This one was not a commercial but rather a kind of how-to video.  I explained how I made a woodcut (or woodblock) print in printmaking after I touched on why I made this particular print.  Printmaking is something I’m going to continue to do also – it is as therapeutic as photography.  All of the photos in the video, as in all of the videos, it took.  Well, except the “DA photo” and the last one with me and the Polish colonel.  I think this video is the best.