Glanced down at my desk and thought it made a nice little time capsule still life thing. Baby monitor, post-its with development notes about the LR presets, a Hasselblad battery, more pages of notes, a sharpie, some CF cards, a lunchbox with homemade bourbon in it, a PS3 game that I still haven’t had time to sink my teeth into, a moleskine journal filled with ideas for shoots, a pocket knife, a 30″ Dell display with Lightroom open, a book on critical theory specific to photography, the ipod shuffle that I sometimes take surfing, and a flip video camera for documenting our growing boy at a moment’s notice.
I recently read a quote from the guy that heads up vehicle design at Ford, from a recent issue of Esquire, as I recall. Paraphrasing: “If you look inside someone’s home, you’ll see who they are. If you look at their car, you’ll see who they want to be.” My desk, at a glance, gives you a pretty big clue as to what occupies my time nowadays (if my piano or surfboard fit on there, the picture would be near complete). I wonder how true this rings for other people as well…
Sergio Buss
What about a snapshot from inside of your car??? ‘;-P
Jan 13, 2010 @ 12:37 pm
kellie
oh, heavenhelpus. the inside of my car is a TORNADO. the mess created by me and my four babes. that’s me — mommy, i guess. nice quote, nevah heard it.
Jan 13, 2010 @ 2:09 pm
Casey Chappell
Reading this really helped me today… in fact it downright blessed me. I struggle thinking I can’t do it all and be good at it all. (mommy, wife, photographer, web savvy, friend, etc…) But just seeing your desk makes me sigh and breathe and say the life of the artist is just like this at times… most times for me. I live on the outside… meaning my brain makes a poor file cabinet so thus things like post its and piles of CF cards help make me keep things fresh in my mind. So, again thanks for this glimpse into the reality of your everyday life.
Jan 21, 2010 @ 8:49 am
R. J. Kern
Doug, this was among the most refreshing thing I read today. I’ve been (self-professed) procrastinating between finishing my home office space because of the lingering question: does it reflect me or reflect a potential place to sell product to benefit the business? I’ve always leaned toward the former, but you sealed the deal. Thank you for sharing a snapshot of your life.
Jan 26, 2010 @ 7:49 pm