West

Incorporating this heavily into my process

GRACE

Grace Jones "State of Grace" (1985) from Jordy on Vimeo.

Getting inspired - I'll have this on loop all day.

Habits

The past 2 weeks have been spent readjusting to the office life. It's something I really never wanted to do again, but desperate times call for boring jobs. It's not a terrible job by a long shot and my brain could always use some exercise, but it runs the risk of my creative brain getting lazy. I know this is something every creative person deals with, so this won't be the most thought provoking piece I've written, but sometimes I need a to bore myself to tears. So here's to habit forming, making things like it's an addiction. Using my time to try new ways to be creative. There was a time when I longed to learn carpentry and it seemed so unattainable - I'd really love to shed that part of myself. The part of me that says it's unrealistic to accomplish these things. It's also so easy for me to ignore the fact that I have accomplished things, especially in the past year when I was trying to go full on freelance. I worked on two feature films, the second of which will feature my art prominently as set decoration. I designed vintage props for a tv show. An experience that ultimately left me cold - my props look great but I was ultimately only credited as prop master assistant, a role that was not to my liking. Oh well. I can still be proud of my work as it is. This year I finally started to get a story started that I'd like to work on continuously - solving my structure problem by expanding the narrative outside of one format. I grew technically as an artist more than I have since art school. I got hungrier to learn more. The greatest sacrifice that I'm feeling of the 9-5 job is the inability to travel. Travel ranks high on my personal list of important things, with my ideal situation allowing for the freedom to move about when I need to. Also as much as I try to stick to regular hours and practice, I'm a night owl at heart - these mornings may be the death of me. This was a bit incoherent, so excuse the thought dump.