Motivation - Blog Posts
Watch "Ape Regime - Andaman EP" on YouTube
This video has been shot by my buddy Pietro on his trip to Cali two years back and the tune is entitled after the Andaman sea after his trip to Thailand. It is a nice little video timelapse and you can find more music on the 45Drakes Records Bandcamp page here:
https://45drakes.bandcamp.com/album/andaman-ep
Watch "Emo Riddim" on YouTube
So this is a tune from one of the latest #45drakesrecords releases, under the #Taelorsmyth project moniker.
The EP is called #VictorianOverflow and It is a bassy, soundsystemy production, listen to some London Underground Sound
First radio show of the year! Tonight Saturday 2nd Jan - 10pm-midnight UK time - lock in @ www.aajamusic.com @aajadeptford (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJjxGtyHPTX/?igshid=13uiyirxnhnuq
this is an article I wrote for Vocal.media, a lovely platform for blogging where writers like to unload their creative impetus. this one is about past experiences and personal flaws and how your shortcomings and limitations can serve as a design tool for your personality and life.
If to feel you need to be in touch
with what you are feeling (by air, sight or skin),
if you can't feel yourself then,
does it mean you are not in touch with yourself?
But then again, how can that be?
If you are alive, you must be attached to yourself
somehow, by some aspect of you!! It must be!
But what if it isn't?
There's always someone to talk to
There's always something to talk about
Salsa es everything 🔥🔥🔥
Imposter sindrome:..FUCK YOU!
Who do you think you are:...FUCK YOU TOO!
Are monotasking and multitasking mutually exclusive?
The answer I would give is NO.
Juggle many projects but focus on each one singularly at the time of dealing with it.
My thoughts are deep
My memories shallow
My intellect curios and hyperactive
My Ego fragile, attached and rigid...
I feel too much
Yet I don't feel enough.
So you can see the problem
With asking me what I think.
MINDFUL FUN MULTITASKING
When Bruce Lee was reading a book, he was often stretching his legs and lifting some weights or some malarkey like that. He was cramming as many things he could into his precious time and he wasn't wasteful with it either. He wasn't just multitasking mindlessly, he was methodic and focussed
The Bassist of the Winery Dogs rock band used to sit in front of the TV for hours, watching his favourite shows and practicing his bass technique
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Recently I discovered this for myself. One day I was listening to @richroll podcast (fenomenal! Listen to it! NOW!) or maybe actually @brucelee podcast (yes he has a podcast, run by his daughter, great stuff, listen to it! NOW!) and at the same time I wanted to practice drums too. So I did both. Then I realized I can do that with videos on youtube and now I am doing it with movies
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So here I am, studying a monologue from #shakespeare, then taking a break and watching a kickass movie while doing #bassguitar excercises. THE DREAM LIFE!!
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I have a long list of movies I gottu catch up on and long hours of bass and drum practice to catch up on too. So this is it. Back to The Future trilogy, then all the Indiana Jones, then many more. Got to refresh my pop culture memories
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Watching Back to the Future now, OMG, I forgot how awesome it is...and @realmikejfox ...Looks so young, a kid!! It is crazy, when you are a child anybody a few years older looks like and adult, in your 30ies anybody below 27 looks like a child 😱
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#backtothefuture #basspractice #dreamlife #moviesfromthe80s #moviesfromthe90s #artisticcreation #training #music
With drums, more so than anything else, (here comes the pun...) you gotta keep banging on (EL OU EL 🙌😂). You start shaky, then you warm up and then you start slowly flowing. Practice practice practice.
#electronicdrumkit #tourtechtt22m #drums #drumfills #drumpractice #drummers #drumming #music
THE SHAPE OF YOUR ESSENCE
Follow the light trails. In your own depths, where the light is scarse and the pressure is boneshattering, you have to shine of your own light and give birth to your own inner strength. There is a light somewhere that is yours and yours alone, a burning flame of fluid destiny that is lit for you to follow. But your eyes have to be open, your soul must know it. If they are and if it does...well, surrender to it and follow the light trail. Aren't you curious? To find out where it leads? To find out the shape of your essence?
#lightphotography #lightdrawingphotography #nightphotography #photography📸 #phonography📷 #creative #art
A higher perspective, a sobering expanse of visual space, a breadth of fresh air and view, soothing red lights of the dusk from #telegraphhill . The climb is worth the prize
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According to @hubermanlab the view of a far and open horizon during the times of dawn and dusk is a powerful natural method for balancing the nervous system
To know your N.O.s and O.N.s
When you know what is N.O. and when it's O.N. for you, life gets considerably better. Not that I know for me...just sayin! (It is something I keep relearning everyday)
![[...] The Phantom That Runs On Before You, My Brother, Is Fairer Than You; Why Do You Not Give To It](https://64.media.tumblr.com/33feb10bb13f1c1bb9c6e90757de29ad/tumblr_o1ttgewo5F1tkznoio1_500.jpg)
[...] The phantom that runs on before you, my brother, is fairer than you; why do you not give to it your flesh and your bones? But you are afraid, and run to your neighbor.
You cannot endure yourselves and do not love yourselves sufficiently: so you seek to mislead your neighbor into love, to gild yourselves with his error [...]
Friedrich Nietzsche - excerpt from "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"
I find this quote devastatingly insightful. What does it mean to you personally? To me it means this image:
“To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
ralph waldo emerson
🌿“It’s quite possible to be a good man without anyone realizing it. Remember that. And this too: you don’t need much to live happily. And just because you’ve abandoned your hopes of becoming a great thinker or scientist, don’t give up on attaining freedom, achieving humility, serving others, obeying God.”
🌿© Marcus Aurelius, “Meditations”.
Unpopular opinion of Marcus Aurelius – and highly thought-provoking:
“In comparing sins (the way people do) Theophrastus says that the ones committed out of desire are worse than the ones committed out of anger: which is good philosophy. The angry man seems to turn his back on reason out of a kind of pain and inner convulsion. But the man motivated by desire, who is mastered by pleasure, seems somehow more self-indulgent, less manly in his sins.
Theophrastus is right, and philosophically sound, to say that the sin committed out of pleasure deserves a harsher rebuke than the one committed out of pain. The angry man is more like a victim of wrongdoing, provoked by pain to anger. The other man rushes into wrongdoing on his own, moved to action by desire.” © Marcus Aurelius, “Meditations”.
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Why have I been getting so many new followers lately?
I haven’t posted anything new since January since it’s been pretty hard to stay motivated to posting my art at all. Last year I tried to post as often as possible, I even posted every single day on Inktober, yet, most of my posts had absolutely no feedback. I feel like I draw too slow to keep up with trends, If i do keep up, I feel like my drawings are ugly and rushed. Sometimes I feel like my art hasn’t improved at all in a while.
I know this is the absolute worst mentality to have as an artist but things have been moving really slow since I started about 2 years ago, most of my drawings get very few likes, some of them don’t even get any and in the best case scenario i get 30 likes max, yet right now i got +10 new followers in such a short period of time by doing nothing.
Should I go back to posting? Maybe if this time a I come back to a fresh start, things will move at a more comfortable pace?
This dosen’t apply only to Tumblr but also the rest of my social media, especially Twitter. I’m considering on opening more accounts in places like Facebook and Instagram.
MercyMe - Grace Got You (Official Lyric Video)
"Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning." Give yourself grace because the almighty already has. I hope this song moves your feet & blesses you with a smile. " You just got away with something....ever since Grace got you."
ig: @RoslynnNikole
I started creating a 'baker's dozen' to do list each week, which allows me to write down 12-13 tasks I want or need to accomplish. 💜🌙🌌