on a whim i enabled nyan-mode in emacs. in life it’s a tired old fad but still amusing to this hermit.

my computing life is now done in emacs. perhaps i’ll finally write that book?

regardless.

i can’t write about my art but i can write about my life.

i try and fail to define my practice, my life, my everything. goals and rules, for me, are things that get broken and ignored so why make a liar out of myself?

if i weren’t a failure i’m not sure what else i could be and i watch my work fail even more but hope that one day it won’t–that it will succeed in its vision of representing my life and soul.

stripping away every hindrance to work comes at a price. one must embrace plain-speaking. direct words and action that cut to the quick of matters.

honesty.

frankness.

representation.

everything else is a waste of time.

The bananas are dehydrating as we speak and the house is coming into order.

My work style is getting to be increasingly reductionist. Becoming something like this:

• photography - adobe
• video - adobe
• writing - emacs
• blogging - hugo
• painting - studio
• coding - emacs, pycharm, phpstorm, clion (needs to be reduced)

Media work remains in the proprietary world because of the tools that were developed for it being highly capable. Gimp is a great program but learning that and sticking with adobe for video, etc. makes flow uneasy since the commands, work flow, etc. are vastly different.

after much procrastination i’ve finally decided to sit down and learn the emacs.

i find myself less and less interested in a computer with smooth graphics and eyecandy. maybe i’m becoming an old?

regardless, i write this now in Kate (update 6/15/18 - see below) as I’ve given up on Atom. I loved Atom but the lack terminal integration was a hindrance to the hugo workflow and in the previous post about stations you’ll understand that this makes sense.