The View From The Crow's Nest | EP70

Welcome to Episode 70 of my podcasts The view from the crow's nest. It is Friday. Friday the 14th of August. And today, was kind of like a continuation of yesterday's kind of decline in wanting to actually do any business work, and instead of wanting to do creative stuff I just really was not in the mood I've kind of lost my I lost my flow on business stuff I think I need to recharge myself with some creative focus. And so, the. This morning I did something I haven't done in about three or four months I opened up my subscription to groove three group three is a whole load of video courses on various different audio production tools and techniques and whatnot. It's huge. There's so much there. And I wanted to sort of reacquaint myself with Cubase which is the software that I use for recording music, and the myriad of plugins that I have for it which I still don't know how to use. And so I did a little tutorial, I started that course, and then after about 20 minutes of watching. Obviously watching it about two or three times the normal speed, you know because I like to do things more efficiently. I've got inspired with this particular course Google's on a plugin called hallein. And I won't go into details but basically I was like, I would open Cubase and actually record some music I've got an idea. So I was playing around with that and I was thoroughly loving it. It was really cool. And yeah I thoroughly enjoyed it but then it was a bit difficult for me to get out of that zone and into some work for what is needed which needed doing and eventually I did do it. And, but that was pretty much you know my kind of down kind of reconnecting today with them kind of following on from what I said yesterday in my blog and my blog in my podcast about keeping an eye on the bigger bigger picture like the really big picture. Where do you want to be in your life, what do you want to be doing, what is your day to day look like etc and if something doesn't take you towards that. And it essentially takes you away from that. Then, you know you want to really question use that as a, as a barometer for decision making. And so, you know, music is entirely towards that I'm writing and fiction film and photography is entirely towards that. And so that was kind of my focus today. And as a consequence, I also did my lack of vocal practice I haven't done a vocal practice and again like good six eight weeks for funding and I could feel that my voice is already you know lost a bit of where I was at. It's always a bit of a challenge for me to get into any kind of good singing technique and habit. You know, I feel I have to work particularly hard to, to be able to sing in any kind of decent enough way. And so that was good I did a very simple, very light practice but it was good to kind of get back doing that. And part of the reason for that is because I want to finish the grip the sky experience. And part of that will probably require me plan a couple of songs acoustically and be able to sing them. Thus, so this is actually still kind of part of audience ninja because grip this guy experiences like proof of concept for audience ninja to be able to offer products and services to other musicians which will be our kind of Nisha, and record labels. So, it was all still joined together but it's now, you know, that's what I'm talking about having the bigger picture in mind and then working towards that and making sure everything is aligned with that and outside of that. I recently in the last two or three days have been re picking up studying Italian. I'm using an app called fluent forever, which is brilliant. And sort of got back on that, and then today also started reading. Like this kind of Italian bought this book for taking the Italian b1 test. So, in order to become an Italian citizen. I qualify because I'm married to an Italian, but I need to take a test and thankfully they changed the rules on that. It was like a written, and a reading and all of that test