BEDA 13 – Daylight

sunset by merlijn72 @ sxc,hu

The days are getting longer and longer everyday. It was still bright at 7.30 pm and around 9 pm I could still see a hint of the daytime blue in the sky. Just a hint, but it was there.

My favourite thing about mid to late Spring/Summer/early Fall is all the hours of daylight. And of course the further north you go, the longer the days are. Someday I'm going to go North (destination unknown as of yet) and enjoy the endless hours of summer sunlight.

BEDA 1 - Alex and Luke Travel

I love watching travel vlogs. I prefer the unpolished videos of real people telling their stories
about travel far more than any travel show that you can find on television. I'm always on the lookout for new ones. Particularly ones made by Canadians.


Somehow today, I was lucky enough to stumble across the blog/website (here) for two
friends named Alex and Luke.

In late 2009 the duo planned a cross-continental road trip that would take them to every
province in Canada and every State in the US (except Hawaii) all in Luke's VW Golf.
Thoughout their journey they took direction from the audience following their travels on
various social media websites. They went where their audience directed and ate where
their viewers suggested. They put the destiny of their travels in the hands of people they
did not know, trusting them to not steer them wrong. Brave souls.
I've spent the evening going through various posts and videos, becoming inspired and
 forming (weak, for the time being) ideas of my own travel adventure someday.

If you enjoy seeing the sites of Canada and the US through someone else's eyes check
them out.

Their latest video (part of a new project) has them in Aurora Village, Yellowknife. Despite
me hating the cold, someday I would love to see the north of my beautiful home country
and this is one of the places I want to visit.

Goals #10 & #11 – Visit the beach and other trips.

Byron Bay's Blue Lagoon by TreeFaerie @ www.sxc.hu

Goal #10 is to travel. Goal #11 is to visit the beach. While I have set these out as two separate goals, they may possibly end up being one in the same.

While I would love to say it would be a visit to a beach in Mexico, Fiji, Greece, classifying it as travel as well as visiting the beach, it won't be. It will be here in Nova Scotia somewhere. It might be an afternoon spent lounging in the sun, or a weekend trip to a beach resort in the province somewhere.

Which ever route I take, the goals are to return to a place I love (by the sea) and to take steps toward being comfortable traveling solo so I can take larger, more adventurous excursions.

A New Year Starts Every Day...

"Time for a fresh start" by James Oconnell
 @ www.behance.net

I have been meaning to write this post for just over three months now. Yes, it was suppose to be a New Years post about my “goals” for 2011. I had made a few lame attempts at starting it, but they never went very far. Was it because I'm a hopeless procrastinator? Or maybe the fact the my mind can be so scrambled I have a hard time organizing my thoughts into cohesive strings of text? It could be. But to be honest, I'm not one for making “New Years Resolutions”. It just hasn't been something I have really done in my life. But, I thought maybe it would be a good way to start of the year for this blog. After all I haven't actually been making any real effort with it yet, and that is something I want to do. I kept putting the process off, making little excuses for myself. Then it just seemed irrelevant.

So much time had past since the year started, but my birthday was coming up. Bright Idea – Birthday Year Goals. What I would strive to achieve between birthday 2011 and birthday 2012. Well, my birthday came and went and I still put off sitting down and gathering my thoughts.

No more. Here I am. And here's the list:

1. Read More – I mean novels. Not more blogs, not magazines, not the back of the cereal box.
2. Try my hand at animation in some from. Learning to make a ball bounce is a good start.
3. Make a video a week and post to YouTube. This could be the weather, the cats, anything.
4. Capture an image of something everyday with the camera on my iPhone. The sky, a tree, probably a cat. Anything at all. Post it to this blog. Possibly through Daily Booth.
5. Take more pictures in general. I have cameras. I should use them.
6. Procrastinate less. Just damn well do it. This blog, case in point.
7. Do at least one sun salutation a day. I learned yoga, so I should use it!
8. Learn to use Adobe After Effects. Motion graphics! It's the future of graphic design, right?
9. Relearn Flash. This also relates to #2.
10. Travel. I have to do this one alone, so I need to start small. It could be a weekend trip to White Point.
11. Go to the beach. Stand at the edge of the Atlantic ocean for the first time in 20 years.
12. Create an actual vlog and post it before my birthday 2012.
13. Use the dollar store canvases I purchased years ago. After completing each painting, photograph and then donate each to the Salvation Army.
14. Lose weight, get healthy, eat better, move more. Vlog about it?
15. Be present in each moment. Appreciate everything.
16. Blog at least once a week. Capture this year, here, on this blog. In words, in pictures, in video.

This list isn't really in a particular order. Just how it came out. I've probably missed a few things I hope to do, but that's okay. I have to learn to embrace change as well.