The downside of having a career is that one is always married to their job. Working a standard forty hours a week, over five days is just a fantasy really. In the reality, one puts in six and sometimes seven days a week for their chosen corporation or business. And that is just the way it is. We do this without much complaint because it funds our Hierarchy of Needs. I mention Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs because it explains why we willingly give so much of our lives to one corporation or business, and to me it explains very well why we rarely leave these companies. In Maslow's model, which is shaped as a pyramid, the bottom two and most basic needs are the Physiological needs (food, water, warmth, rest), and Safety needs (security, safety). These two basic needs are essential for our survival and the modern day survival tool is money. The sacrifice for our time, knowledge and labor for the exchange for these most basic needs is an easy one to make. Starve or thrive, this is our choice.
Also on the Hierarchy of Needs pyramid are the Psychological needs (Belongingness & love needs / Esteem needs) and Self-fulfillment needs. I believe that most of us never reach this last step in the pyramid and somewhere along the line we just give up trying. Self-actualization is achieving one's full potential, including creative activities is the highest and most fulfilling of all the needs. To be able to reach this level into the model has meant that one has achieved and fulfilled both their basic needs and psychological needs. To be in a position where one can have the time and the tools to create and attempt to achieve their full potential is truly rare in this world and it can take a lifetime of hard work and sacrifice to reach this last step. More than likely, it takes several generations passing on their knowledge and resources for one to be able to reach Self-actualization. This is where I am now, and this is my journey into achieving one's full potential.
Now I mentioned earlier that one usually works six to seven days a week and is married to there job. That is me in a nutshell. I am still doing this and have been doing this since age sixteen. That is the age I landed my first job and from then on, it has been six to seven days a week of both schooling and working, for twenty three years and counting. So to achieve creative activities are mostly done on one, sometimes two days a week, at least for the video creations. I would love in the future to be able to pour all of my time and efforts into these creative activities.
On this particular week I received some good/bad news, it depends on one's point of view. For me it was good news because it meant that I would have the opportunity to have one more day to create than expected. So upon receiving the news that we would have a business shutdown on Friday July first, I made plans to go to Squire Boone Caverns & Village. To be completely honest, I was really excited for this trip because they offer a zip-line tour. I was having visions of zipping through the air, camera capturing my excitement the entire way. Well that didn't go as planned, I was so exhausted from working those six days a week that I ended up sleeping until noon! by the time I ate my breakfast, prepared for the trip and traveled there, it was just too late for the zip-line tour.
In this video I continue on with beginning, middle and end in the same fashion as Vlog 3. Traveling to the event, the event, and traveling from the event. The first part of the video and all the way up to the cave tour was shot with the Canon Vixia HF M41 ( here is a newer model), and also the last part of the video leaving the park was shot with the Vixia. The cave portion of the video was shot with the Finepix xp80. I believe that this was the correct camera to use in this cave simply because of all the water. This particular camera is waterproof and I was having water splash all over it. Unfortunately, some of the water got on the lens and ruined many images. Another lesson learned in film making and shooting in challenging environments. Overall though, I believe that the camera performed well under the circumstances. The video editing software that I used was Corel Videostudio Ultimate X9. ( here is an older version of this software). I am still learning the software, which I believe to be a very user friendly and powerful program. It has many features built in including forward and reverse, and variable speed. In this video, I play around with some of these features. I was so focused on the fact that I could at this point, I didn't stop to consider if I should. In retrospect, I wish that I did not play around with the water wheel. It gives the impression that the bearings are going out or something. Anyway, thanks for reading this and don't forget to subscribe :)
Equipment that I currently use.
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