Wednesday, October 22, 2008

A couple months back I was exploring the internet when I came across this series of videos featuring Adam Savage of Mythbusters fame.



He discusses how he has a creative projects folder.  His definition is of a creative projects folder is simply a folder that contains photos, videos, documents, and audio files that may interest me.  

After seeing this I was inspired.  Now, whenever I go on the internet and find something that interests me, I save it to a 'creative projects' folder that I created on my external hard drive.  I have been accumulating material for this folder since September 14th, 2008.  At that time, I was fascinated with NASA.  I was anticipating the launch of the STS-125 mission that was supposed to take place October 8th at 1:35 a.m. but was postponed due to equipment that hadn't arrived yet.  As of now, the launch is scheduled for February 17th, 2009.  Ugh that seems so far away.  Anyways, I came across a site that featured photos of the Space Shuttle in the vehicle assembly building at Cape Canaveral and was totally fascinated.  There were huge cranes that were there to lift the shuttle so they could attach it to the boosters and the whole process was simply awesome.  You can check out some of them here.

As time goes by, the more that is in the folder represents my interests.  At this moment my folder is almost 2GB.  It contains about 600 images of NASA stuff, trains, cars, art, geologic stuff.  There are 2 movies: one about H.H. Holmes, and the other a documentary of the Red Hot Chili Peppers recording their Blood Sugar Sex Magik album.  I plan on adding even more when I get a chance.  I am creating a library of my interests, and I like it.

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