Yet another blog blog...  
I've created a collaborative blog with my friend Tom. It's about finding out how to maximize our business offerings. I'll just post the URL here once. Its jumpstart

Great Day
It's a beautiful day here in the pacific northwest. I think you value nice weather so much more if you have to deal with clouds/rain for 9 months out of the year. I like to think we savor our rain here.

I will be working on prepping for my still life shoot for "Magic Things". A collection of still lives of small magic apparatus. It has a limited market, but it's a good start towards a shoot of billiard items which would have a wider market.

Direction  
When you have direction it seems to add speed. Of course with speed and direction you have velocity.

When decided that we were doing photography things seemed to click into gear. I've been running back and forth to the lab, taking more photos than ever. We're making money. Of course we're still investing it back in, but money is good.

I was up at 6:30 most of this week. I was up at 6:30 today (saturday) even hammering a way at our custom database. I added support to track each job expenses vs. job revenue with added residuals that will cover stock sales and print orders. We plan on doing fine art work as well.

As always we're in motion....

Value of motion  
So I'd like to thank the people who read this. Also please feel free to send me mail about the topics I cover. I'd love to hear your thoughts too. My disclaimer says if you don't like the blog don't read it. But frankly if you're reading it you must get something out of it. Even if it just fires you up. Drop me a line once in a while.

The true value of "In Motion" is a conversation I have with myself. However I do keep posting because I know at least a couple of people are reading...

Theft  
Something was stolen from me. It's not a tangible thing. But a set of ideas. What hurts more say an $830 case of fraud on ebay or a set of ideas you have for a creative project. That project goes to someone profit. They are given access to your ideas and plans. They proceed to use your ideas and plans?

Makes me feel like a chump. It's not possible to pitch a client without presenting ideas, right? But is there anything to stop that client from using those ideas with a cheaper or otherwise motivated vendor. Sure a non disclosure, but since you're pitching the client they don't have to really "disclose" your ideas just use them.

Chump. Who's the chump? Me? No. Did I learn? Yes. Always learn.

In the end I have to ask myself, Did I really want that client anyway?. Did the alternate vendor get what he deserves? perhaps. Did the customer? He will I'm sure.

The un-stealable
Passion. Caring. Those were my ideas and only I could really push them to the limit. The other guy is having ideas thrust on him. This doesn't work.... So in the end the customer will suffer, but will he feel it? Maybe. When I create an image just that matters to me. The image. I want to put my name on the best work. Not someone else's ideas.

Cleanliness is next to... wait a sec!  
So what is it about a clean office? By office I mean the generic space you work in. It just feels good. Some times my office gets away from me. I mean really away. Right now I'd say its about 3/4's away. So I'm saying it is not clean. So I have on my list today to clean it. It really is an important but not urgent thing. The more time we spend on the important not urgent the less time we will spend on a. the important and urgent and more vital is we'll spend less time on b. the urgent but unimportant. Of course we need not mention the unimportant non urgent things we never do. (see "HALO" below).

We shall overcome....  
The global plant life union attacked me with pollon. I was down for a week with allergies. I wasn't 100% down, but when I'm down much I don't do this post. We must unite against this plant conspiracy and put down the pollon pollution effecting animals everywhere. I think this is something even PETA will get behind. The plants are sticking it to the animals. Of course this will create a faction IETP (Idiots for the Ethical Treatment of Plants) Of course this group has a tendancy to die out as they are usually ulta conservative members of PETA to start so they don't have anything left to EAT. We have to EAT.... EAT... EAT EAT... Ethical Treatment of COWS??? We have to fucking EAT EAT... sorry got away from.

OK I played a lot of Halo. But there was some sneezing.

I did get a cold too. But I did also finish Halo.

Halo rocks. Now I'm only interested in playing multiplayer which doesn't cut into my day as much. Or at all.

Did a good planning

Not guilty  
Yesterday I was a wreck. Why? Nerves. My speeding ticket trial was for 9 am in the morning. I had a lawer go for me. Her Idea to leave me behind. Good thinking. I was scared. She had told me several times that the worst thing that could happen is I would have to pay the fine. It was only a hundred bucks. I haven't exactly had many scrapes with the law. OK the Cincinnati public library had my picture up for a while as "shoot on site" for lost books. But this ticket was the first real scrape. I had another ticket for doing 5 over in front of the house, but it was 62 and I just paid it. This one was for 46 in a 35. I really don't think I was going that fast. I wasn't looking at my spedometer. I was looking at the officer who had just jumped out from behind a bush. He looked like Wile E. Coyote about to catch the road runner. He had a laser tracker. (The apparently really helped my case) He waved me over and I didn't say anything to him. Didn't even ask him why he pulled me over.

Aye Jaye has a way to deal with this. It didn't work for me. On the back of my licence is an organ donar card. It authorises full use of my parts. Under specifics Aye Jaye had me write "Take genitals first!". He says that if the cop laughes when he turns it over you're off. He didn't laugh.

So I was at home shaking. I didn't get anything done. Had a plan, but did not execute. I was just a wreck. I finally called her at 11am expecting to page her. But she answered the phone. She told me it was not guilty and man did I feel better. I'm working double time to catch up today, but thats working too.

XBox Day  
Yesterday we played xbox. Lots of it. Amped and Halo. Lots of fun.

Notable mentions:

Kurt Got the hat the most.
Marie won amped on "american express"
Tammy did way better than she thought she would (hence no hat)
JR loves the sniper rifle... So much so that he wants to mix amped with Halo so you can actually kill the photographers who mouth off at you.

"Boooveee."
"oh ya?" JR retorts, "Plasma grenade!" 3...2...1..boom...

Outlook, Lookout, look UP  
Well the weather here is finally turning for the better. Sunny (what?) here in the seattle area. It's novel I don't know what to do. I guess I may have a look through my telescope tonight.

It's funny to think that many sailors had telescopes before Galeleo. He was the guy who had the idea to point it up at the sky at night and actually look at a planet. Because of that he got Jupitor's moons named after him. He had to actually build his scope himself. It was like someone digging into popular mechanics building a device that other people already had and displacing the earth from the center of the universe in one swoop...

What can you point at the sky? --uh.. me.