Completing the word map about myself really got me thinking about everything I consume, everything that makes up my time and my life and me as a person, and I have been trying to analyse these into some kind of theme or order.
One thing that became very apparent from the map and my wondering was that I am very interested in LIFE. The nature of life, the story of it, the journey that we all experience; these are things that are always on my mind and are more often than not reflected in what I consume daily and what I am passionate and interested in:
Some examples:
- Interviews - reading/watching interviews of people I look up to, listening to their stories and ideas and opinions and their lives.
- Day in the life/Slice of life videos - these are usually of skateboarders but also there are some good ones out their about creative people. I'm very interested in other people's daily routines and how specific people spend their time.
- Podcasts - Similar to interviews but also NPR's This American Life podcast is wonderful, hosted by Ira Glass. It picks a topic for each episode and they have experts, the public, famous people etc telling stories and information regarding the topic. Also Blackbox radio on soundcloud is amazing, which is a similar idea but infinitely more diy and rough and homemade.
- Films/Series - The films I love are usually very character and narrative driven, usually realistic in their settings and situations and style. Such as; Drive, No Country for Old Men, The Place Beyond The Pines, Pulp Fiction, The Big Lebowski, Mad Men etc. I am very aware as well that they are all very escapist, depicting lives and situations that I would not get into, such as the crime and violence orientated ones, yet they are still driven on the quality of the film making and writing.
- Vlogs - Watching other people's lives, usually ones that I aspire to live similarly to. Casey Neistat, Caleb Babcock, The Lowes are among the few I regularly watch. Again, there has to be some merit to the film making for me to fully enjoy and get into them though.
- Advice/Guidance - Along with the self-improvement side of my life, I find a lot of value in seeking out guidance and ideas about how to live life and how to develop our character's as people. Websites such as The Art of Manliness and people like Elliott Hulse have provided me with a lot of value in the past and I always end up coming back to these two specifically in times of need.
I don't really know where all this speculation is leading as of yet, but so far it is one of the most apparent and grounded discoveries about my self so far in this project.
Hopefully I can try to make sense of this all visually as an option for my poster or material for the presentation.
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