It's been a minute since I've been extremely focused on a particular project. A few months ago I was living and breathing the music video for D.T.A we did and it felt great to be working and creating something. Before that was months before when I spent literally everyday for a few months working on our album. There have been a few projects here and there around those but they have been on such a smaller scale. Always after a big project I get kind of burnt out and spend a few days just loafing before having the energy to start something else.
Lately I've made a few attempts to get back on track with a ton of little projects that I've been meaning to work on but haven't been able to for one reason or another. Probably because a lot of times I'm a lazy piece of crap. I started to get on the up and up in the last week or so with a few things but then, after some pushing from friends, downloaded the game Diablo III for my computer. Not too far into it I decided all is lost and this is me for the next few months: going to work and playing this game. When I was a kid and all the way through high school I played A LOT of video games and it always seemed to take up all my time. I stopped playing as much in college and since then, pretty much only jumping in to play a particular game or two when they come out and then I generally step back from them. In other words my creative juices tend to suffer when I get into game mode, yet strangely something weird has happened this time. It's actually doing the opposite.
I'll start to play the game for an hour or so, then get not so much bored with it, but tired of playing and turn it off. In the middle of playing a game I get the itch to be creative and get something accomplished. When I get frustrated with whatever I'm doing, usually a video, I use the game as a reward system. Finish this crap and go play the game for awhile and vice versa. Sort of. I dunno, I've just seemed to notice a larger influx of work getting done this past week despite playing a lot of this game. Maybe it was just the right amount of distraction that I've needed to get the blood flowing.
