Saturday, January 02, 2010

it just takes some time, little girl

Hello!

I'm at the arse-end of the lethargic phase of my holiday, and from that you can take away the fact that my room is more organised than the Emperor Bonaparte's regiment1.

I have a list of things I want to say, but these are written next to a list of things I need to do, so I won't look at it just right now. Instead, I'll tell you about two things I'm doing to acknowledge twenny-ten.

  • I've decided to do a year-long photography project, which is made up largely of taking (at least) a photo a day. So not the hugest bulge on a daily to-do list, plus phone cameras make it easier to do. I'm hosting it as a project on my Flickr, called, quite predictably, irfaan365. I severely recommend you do something half similar, because apart from it being sillily easy, by the end of a year you have a photofolio. Win.
  • The second is keeping metrics for the year - to be able to quantify the consistency and variability of things. So exercises, moods, cups of tea and some other things. Lifehacker shows some cool free life graphing tools and you might like lifemetric com and joe's goals for the simplicity it offers.
And now, Saturday!

  1. that's to say, quite lovely and inspiring to look at, but very capable of being fucked up.

6 comments:

Saaleha Bamjee-Mayet said...

Massive.
I'm going to hitch a lift on your wagon. A poem a day? It was meant to be one of them 'resolutions' anyway. Let's see how this goes. Seeing as I'm heading into day 3 of a little less shiny 2010, I'll have to triple up on output for tomorrow and run with it from then on.

Azra said...

Great Stuffs. Wishing you a happy new year Irfaan, with everything you could ever hope for and more. Don't think, I could do the 1 pic a day though, I'm commitment phobic. But lets see shall we...

Hasina Suliman said...

Photofolio :) Nice :)
I like the idea :)

M Junaid said...

this is a win :)

Antonio said...

Nice

Irfaan said...

@saaleha, well done you on keeping up with a spectrum of pieces.

@azra, you could do one a week, or one a month - just think of a theme and go with it.

and thanks @hasina, @MJ and @antonio for the props and thumbs up :)