I dug into an old backup drive at the weekend and found this. I’ve been looking for it for ages. It’s the very first piece of video that I made and shared via the internet. This was August 2005, 8 months after I’d started podcasting in a similarly impulsive, unplanned and amateurish way (three adjectives…
I’m trudging across the gap between my aspiration and my ability to fulfil it. Too much b-roll, not enough meat. Never mind. I’ve managed to get the red nose treatment on the thumbnail here. It’s all helping me to see what I need to work on more. And in the meantime, I’m lucky enough to…
Stating the obvious today. I got sidetracked today, thinking about how to make a silk purse out of a pig’s ear.
Another day, another videoblog. I went up to London for a couple of meetings and remembered how tiring it can be to just exist sometimes. It was nice though to hang around the West End without the tension I used to feel that I ought to be somewhere else doing something else. Fun to see…
“I don’t know if this will be a ‘daily vlog’ or a ‘daily vlog except when it isn’t’” “I don’t know what I’m talking about” Classic Davis Vlogging Something something, whatever it takes to get me working out loud again. The convention will be that the date on these will be the day they get…
It’s my blogiversary. Here’s where it all started in September 2004… Some thoughts now on my thoughts then: “The world really has changed” – I obviously thought this needed saying. Who was I trying to convince? Will there ever be a time when this isn’t true? “I am connected to a very diverse network of…
So, I woke up thinking about practice. Just choosing to do a something, over and over again. Like, this morning, at 7 a.m., the kettle’s boiling, and there I am, setting up my camera, pressing the red record button and talking to myself in the kitchen like any other ordinary person in the 21st Century….
One of the things I’ve been reflecting on lately is that I’ve been making things on the web for at least 20 years now. It’s been almost 20 years since I started this blog, and that got me thinking about why I called it “Perfect Path.” That’s a question nobody ever actually asks. People always…
The quiet early hours, from 5 to 7 in the morning, have always been my most fertile time for ideas. However, there’s a catch: when I sit down to type, I lose the flow of thoughts because I’m still processing them while trying to write. So, this morning, as I sat with my half-drunk coffee…
I recently came across these gems among my sixth-form reports: “I should like to see a minimum of 15 hours study per week at home to begin with; then a greater commitment to the detail of his subjects and less reliance on his natural flair. If he exerts himself next year, the reward could be…