rarely post anything here. Most of you have probably followed
me because of one interest - creativity. Not talking about
creativity but anything else feels almost like spamming LOL
But well, the ".. and about anything, that comes across my
mind in my everyday life"-part in my introduction has been
there forever, so I guess, you might also have known the risk
before ;-)
Today I want to show you my new tools - a Japanese knife
(most left) and a digital voice recorder. Spectacular, no? LOL
The four knives from the right have been accompanying me
for about 22 years and served me well in my daily kitchen life.
I mostly work with the smallest one - it cuts nearly everything.
The fifth one was bought by a friend, who came for a visit and
couldn't deal with any of my knives (I on the other hand cannot
really deal with this new knife - we must have different way of
using a knife?).
Anyway, for weeks my hand asked me for a bigger knife
whenever I was cutting something. So two weeks ago I finally
bought one. Working with a big knife is so different than
before. The movement comes from the arm rather than from
the wrist, which is great. I'm cutting less accurate (which was
the reason why I never bought one before) and less speedy,
but that's not really important for me at the moment. It's the
flowing movement that I love - almost like a dance...
The idea of buying a digital voice recorder came on the same
weekend. I had a long walk and one idea after another came
flowing. At home, as I wanted to write it down, I only managed
to capture a small percentage :-(
Right now I'm still practicing in using it. Technically it is not an
issue - I could even do everything with closed eyes. But from
my experience with microphones, I know, I'd act different -
insecure, low voice,empty head,... - as soon as I have to speak
into a microphone. Also, I always thought it is odd, whenever
I saw people talking on the phone using a microphone - looked
like as if they're talking to themselves.
So, I'm recording a lot of nonsense at the moment and replay it,
just to make me use to the microphone and my own voice. I'm
taking it with me everywhere. I also have to learn dealing with
people's reactions, thinking I was speaking to myself (which I'd
indeed do in this case LOL). I hope, the next time I have to
record an idea, I'd be able to speak to it just as I was thinking
in my head.
How do you capture your ideas on the way?
