where am i going?

With so much good in life to celebrate, why is it that there is an ever present focus on what is not right and not perfect? If one were to study and calculate the odds of Earth being a planet in a solar system in which is conducive to origins of life, much less the development of intelligent life, this individual will find that the random and chance occurrences were all steps that helped make now. Good and bad alike all were steps to here. Yet how often do we forsake the ever present realities that we have come to not only expect but take for granted, such as breathable air, drinkable water and even the scantest of nutrition to be able to survive second to second. Yet almost inexplicably we take these things as well as ourselves and others for granted. The media of the United States are reporting on not only the current economic recession - manifesting itself in low consumer confidence, the housing market plunge and depreciating futures, but also stories of government scandal, fraudulent voter registration and terrorists on twitter. I am not an advocate for removal of this sort of journalism rather a proponent of looking on the bright side. Previously I have struggled with such an outlook, preferring the view of the realist - who looks at a situation and tries to be objective in its evaluation and methods for moving forward. However, I feel i have spent already too much of my short 26 years in this consciousness to live moment to moment in skepticism and doubt. From now on I am going to actively choose to feel better and attempt to take what life provides and make sure it something good for my family and me.

my friday blithering

Today is friday, great. I am currently off of work and instead of doing what i would rather be doing i am here typing for you, the reader of my blog. Why? Why do i care? Why am i not doing what i want? The answer is simple, i want to share a bit of myself with you here in this forum. I shall soon go out and begin cataloguing the world by means of my d70s but for now i type. I would like to direct your attention to the right hand column where i have edited my links. I have posted a link to my flickr account so that you may take a visual tour through some of what i have experienced. I am always looking for suggestions on how i can improve on any image that i work on. some of my photos are in the process of moving to the begneaud_manufacturing flickr account. These pictures of re-thinking louisiana and joel barker have lived on my personal account for too long. I think they should still be available so that people may know that the event happened and may learn about the good that came from this two-day event; however as i begin taking more pictures i must differentiate and distinguish the difference between photography for photography's and art's sake and photography for general multi-functional documentation. Documentation is not the face i want to portray. So feel free to check out begneaud_manufacturing's flickr for all things exclusively begneaud and my account for my take and spin on things.

I am going take pictures.

humbly panjandrumistic

And so it begins. I humbly present a fourth and fifth dimension of myself for world viewing. Now of course these fourth and fifth dimensions that i have referenced of course may puzzle many. However i see these dimensions as a continually renewed reality. I can imagine you are ready for me to reveal the true nature of these dimensions rather than running around the issue, with much prose. These dimensions are of course my 1. thoughts and messages (in this arena-most frequent typed rather than verbal) that i present and 2. images and pictures which have the possibility of multiple real time viewings around the world. Here is where the panjandrumistic nature comes into the picture. As of now, even though i reference this world view of my images, artwork and thoughts, the reality is, even minimal blog traffic will be a tremendous step for me.