Author: Seth Werkheiser

WAITING AS A GOAL

What if the waiting is the goal.

This reminds me a passage in “Why We Gather,” by Priya Parker.

The part about waiting in line to get into some big political rally. People standing in line for hours. Then sitting. All the waiting. All the downtime.

Not saying every minute needs to be optimized, but like the story above – the artist served food. Made it an event.

What slowed down, made-to-wait experience can you incorporate into your work?

(link via Sari at Sublime)

BACK UP THE DIGITAL WITH THE PHYSICAL

With all my digital dumping lately, been thinking a lot about digital media.

This from Patrick Rhone:

Here’s a (admittedly costly and privileged) thought: Instead of downloading your Kindle books and hacking the DRM from them, use the titles as a list to go buy from your local book store. Or, cheaper option, to keep an eye out for in a Little Free Library.

Back up the digital with the physical.

I’ve cancelled Disney+ because I watch the same old Star Wars movies, and the price keeps going up. I thought, gee, just buy those movies digitally via Apple or Amazon, so I can just stream them whenever I want, right?

But maybe I should just buy a blu-ray player and the actual discs. That way, if the internet goes down or I somehow lose access to my accounts or digital files, well, I can still watch those movies.

I thought this too with digital music – I was digging around for a media player that isn’t Apple Music, and oh my god, everything is atrocious.

But instead of re-building a system which keeps all my files inside my laptop, why not try to buy the CDs (and cassettes)? I can even burn digital files to a CD and play them on my CD player.

ORGANIZING IPHONE PHOTOS ON MY OWN DEVICES

So all my photos dating back to 2002 are in folders, grouped by year, on my external HD, which is then backed up regularly via Backblaze.

I have a reminder set for the 1st of every month to download all my photos from iPhone (via Image Capture) to my Mac, where I put them into a folder, organize (delete a lot of videos and screen shots), then add them to my monthly folder of photos I take with my DSLR.

I was using Google Photos to sync everything from my phone, but that’s $20/year going to Google. No thanks.

And now that I’m not backing up photos via iCloud, my iPhone back ups are smaller, so I was able to downgrade to the .99¢ plan, which is just $12/year. Maybe I can look more into the back up stuff and whittle it down to the free plan at some point, but this is acceptable.

SMALL CITY PHOTOS

Took myself to Pottsville, PA today, a nearby city with zero planning, just letting the vibes take me.

That brick storage unit building was built in 1900, has over 6,000 square space, and is for sale for just $150,000.

I’d have preferred finding a good place to park and to walk around, but that wasn’t in the cards today, and that’s okay.

The light was terrible, but whatever, it was a Saturday outside on a nice day.