Editing and uploading and linking and such like a made the little button on the corner of my channel - the one that says BLOGGER - almost invisible to my video editor's eyes... Until I DID notice it last night and... OMG, it suddenly dawned on me that I had actually created a blog years ago, circa 2013, and, after a couple of articles, had abandoned it completely!
Then a nasty thought crept into my mind... What the hell did I write in those old blogs and how will those ramblings "affect" my business, reputation, image, prospects, (pick one or all) etc.
So, after fumbling around searching for old passwords and gaining access I actually READ them with the fresh mind of many years of loves, hates, traumas, pitfalls, pinnacles, and waters under many bridges.
First off, I didn't remember the amount of work and thought that had gone into them - photos, captions, and, well, musings.
Secondly, I was surprised to find that most of those musings are still very relevant today, albeit, ironically so, considering the subject matter of some of them.
For example, one of the earliest ones has to do with the disappearance of written language due to visual media, TV, computers, mobile devices, etc. Our Twitter of a President makes this a very engaging read indeed.
Another has to do with my love of movies, in which I expressly mentioned Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey, a movie in which TIME plays an integral part of the story - a factor that has impacted me immensely for years, and continues to do so...
I watched the movie in a movie theater, in gorgeous 70MM FILM PRINT... Yes, NOT a digital transfer but an actual, physical, frame by frame rendering in acetate thanks to Christopher Nolan of Dark Knight, Inception, Dunkirk, and INTERSTELLAR fame - this last one owing a hell of a lot to Kubrick's masterpiece.
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| Christopher Nolan poses with prints of 2001, A Space Odyssey, for a news photographer. |
A Space Odyssey, as does the subject of time, keeps showing up in my life during pivotal moments - when I was a child, when I first moved to the US to finish my BA, and now that I'm back in the States because of hurricane Maria.
Having rambled about all this, I decided not to worry too much about my old blogs. I don't think they will affect my life too much, first because hardly anyone reads anymore anyway, and, if anyone does, (hats off to the NSA, and other Trump-infested "intelligence" agencies) I don't think they will decide to hire or fire me because of them.
No one has that power over me anymore.
So, maybe I will dish out some blabber here for that shrinking minority of readers who still gaze at words not linked to a moving image.
Write to you soon!
- roscoe
