Durgid Tiction

Emergence

Held off on any tangible commentary regarding the goings-on of late instead leaving communique to pictorial interpretation. Well, until now.

It’s funny. I maintain a significant web presence, revel in electronic communication, and keep a finger on the pulse of several communities while at the same time never declaring a major in this sprawling university of interaction. It’s like a former job I had as a jack of all trades but master of none. “It” being what I’m about right now I suppose.

So what’s Ryan been up to?

Pete’s Wedding.
My circle of friends narrows in to a very tight cylinder (or maybe a monochrome hula hoop?) around very few people. It was they that were involved in a whirlwind of travel and celebration on Pete’s behalf this past weekend. I really don’t have the words to how much I enjoyed the process from start to finish. Whether bouncing along asphalt and busting a cornfield U-turn for pie or watching a maelstrom of near-cataclysmic creativity circle two life-long friends I was saturated in an environment that had become utterly foreign.

My narrative or image-laden attempts at explanation can’t really do the experience or its impact as a whole justice.

…I had THREE wing(men).

Writing at The Weekly Geek

I won’t trace back the non-linear footpath that led me to this site but let me tell you thus far it’s been a fucking blast. It’s like a tiny itch right behind my eyes, deep in gray brain meats that gets exposed to air and scratched every so often. Still lacking in any actual, you know, direction but I prattle here and there and am having a genuinely good time with it.

Quit the Office Job
Touched on this briefly at inception and have been trying to unfuck the damage done to my already questionably unstable psyche since. I’m torn between the unending glee of knowing I’ll never, ever do something like that again and the eternal facepalm when thinking back to the two YEARS I wasted there. Lesson learned.

Got a 360

Something I’d like to call an impulse buy but yeah, not the case. Been jaded to the thought of gaming for a while due to the spastic entropy of my gaming PCs, finally caved, and have had a good time so far.

On the Slab

• Meeting some peeps tomorrow over at the Field. Plan is to continue on the Wired NEXTFEST. I intend to put a recent lens acquisition through the motions throughout.
• Traveling back out to Germany to meet up with a buddy stationed there. We did the fest last year and intend to do the same this one, then continue on to Berlin and possibly Paris, Budapest, or wherever. This will wrap up my joyful time spent unemployed.
• Still playing with the photography thing. I actually got to SHOOT PEOPLE this weekend. Insane, I know.
• New Job. New Digs. Same wandering, delphic agenda. Tactical pants, sun, sand, and my trusty leatherman.
• ?????????
• PROFIT