Thoughts on Art

I have never been artistic, but have been drawn to expression in many forms. Music, visual representation, spoken word, writing, and blending of many forms and mediums to get to a larger truth, both of self and the larger world.

My movements to channel my inner energy into a medium have been sporadic. Many times I do not know where to start, I take on an overly ambitious project, become frustrated, and move on to another venture.

Some projects and ideas I have had:

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• The twitter mood lamp- Still want to tackle this. Seems super doable, need to learn some skills to get there.

• The SYNTHECYCLE - this idea is simply insane to take on. I don't even know where I would start

• Neural Network Tattoo generator - Mostly successful, took way longer than anticipated. Spent so long learning really mundane things (esoteric python package dependencies, AWS things, Linux memory and storage limitations, some image recognition concepts).

• Music generator with Neural Networks - This seems like its also going to be insanely complicated.

• Learning about synthesizers

• My digital note taking app. Using OCR to capture my writings, then upload digitally. So many moving parts to this. May have not been worth the effort

Other ideas I want to pursue, not necessarily art:

• The Data Science Badges idea - I would need to get more graphic design on this. This would be pretty doable

• Learning musical instruments in general.

• The concertina - this is a chicken and egg thing. Should I learn the instrument first, Or should I learn the music first?

• Being a better developer in general. To make it easier for me to access and do other things, a strength I could always come back to and lean on. But do I actually want to do this myself? Not sure.

• Woodworking - this is probably one of the more straightforward. There are just so many resources out there to get started.

The Problem: There are so many things I want to jump into, but I have so much to learn. Where do I start, when I have so many things to learn along the way? And when there are so many things I want to be able to do?

I often will jump in, get overwhelmed with how much I don't know, I get stalled, then drift away, then move on to something else.