I really miss the "outside" - I've been in the devious Technology flow for the entirety of 2009 thus far, I haven't come out for a breath. Except to restructure marketing, and I'm so happy I did.

Side Track: $Heidi is makin' your lives as deviants better every day since she's been in place as dA's marketing director. Check out the default notice banners in our footer that just went up, one reinforces random deviant, and the second is a reinforcement of my favorite thing in the world; deviantART Loves You with a link to a forum post asking for overall community feedback. Really that stuff is the tip of the ice burg. She's taking so many bullets for me. Thanks $Heidi.

Anyway I picture the "outside" as things like this journal entry, or hanging out in #devart or #seniors, tweeting, holding devmeets, doing an interview or two... even traveling for biz dev or something. But I've been "inside" as I was saying, at HQ, working closely with Devious Tech and sprinting on a number of projects tech and non-tech for months and months.

I would love to be able to do both at the same time, but they use such different parts of my brain. One is free creativity, with structured output (being outside), the other is maybe structured creativity hopefully resulting in freedom of output for all of you. Hmm, $pachunka, $mccann, how's that sentence sound? That about right? Sounds like the start of a good way to describe it.

Anyway I'm supposed to be upstairs watching a movie with =JaninaZ - what kind of a crazy person writes a journal instead of being up there to hang out with a beautiful woman like her. I can't possibly be this much of a nerd. Hmm, yes I am. Great thing is, she's probably playing Ratchet and Clank hoping I don't come up there to watch this movie so she can sneak in five more seconds of her crack addiction with that thing.

Any of you MALE watchers who have girlfriends ever need to have the thought, "god I wish she'd stop playing video games" ?? - It's normally the girlfriend thinking this, right? I know, I know. I've got it so good.

I have a certain world famous street photographer coming to hang out Tuesday, who might teach me how to properly make photos - a skill I am very serious about further developing in the street photography style. I've really enjoyed this particular form of art on the site. I go to the Street gallery, tune to 1 month popular, and SitBack to it all the time. Many great photographs in there. Nothing inspires me like well made photos of humans caught in singularly perfect moments of beauty. The moment before and the moment after completely ordinary, but that spliced moment deeply insightful and often very meaningful.

On the world tour, I intend to practice a lot.

On the world tour. More to be announced about this soon.

In the meantime, it's got my stomach all knotted up, I can't sleep that well, it's the first thought on my mind every day. What's going to happen?