well, well
When you spend enough time online you revert back to childhood habits. Like having imaginary friends - only when you’re adult, they are more like imaginary people-you-know. This includes every one whom I never met, but read enough from online to have a distinct concept they are a person. I have a special space in my head to remember these people, just like the lyrics of songs I never really listened to or stories from Radiolab about some dude who was breeding a moth under his skin.
Anyway, today my RSS reader picked up an update from a blog of one of imaginary people-I-knew, first time in years (I might have filed for bankruptcy and hit “mark all read” few times, too). It was a somewhat nice find. So I thought, I’ll let you know that rumors of my death are exaggerated.
Since October following things happened:
My so called “professional career” picked up. I am… working in documentary film production. Which is why the word “career” is in quotation marks.
About 50% of my job is online or making content for online re documentaries. This is generally what I wanted to do for a while. So well done me, I guess.
Another 25% is spent on various festivals drinking heavily with other idiots who got themselves into this industry. It’s a really close bond.
I also make interviews for magazines and translate a lot between Polish and English. Texts vary, but at some point translations included CSR reports and a catalogue of descriptions of porn movies. Good times had by all.
I do social media and community relations for 3 different projects. I puke facebook and cry twitter.
I spent 10% of my time failing to communicate with graphic designers and webmasters. I have become that pain in the ass client.
10% is replying emails and writing global action plans for projects for the next 3 years. I started to have trouble differentiating between the two.
Then there’s 5% when I actually do my own creative work. Or lay on the bed.
So there. I hope this finds you well.
Farewell
Dear Friends,
I hate it when cliches turn out to be truth. But life indeed happens when you’re making other plans. I am now in Warsaw for over a year, which initially was supposed to last 4 months. And I am – to the best of my knowledge – staying here for much longer. Hence, being the particular type of intellectual-ADHD person, I’ve taken on new writing projects that are appropriate for the place I’m in. It’s target=”_self” time for me.
abinarylife.com is over 2 years old and I feel it has come to its end as my writing/online experimental playground. Dan generously offered to host yet another of my crazed ideas, and so i packed my toys and went over to thewarsawblog.com. There are way too few English resources about urban life in this up and coming city and it only felt right that I should stick my beak in the matter. It’s not all Warsaw though, if you liked in here – you will enjoy it there. I’m just as cranky as I’ve always been.
All the binarylife archives are staying here for the time being. In case you only just got here, there’s a choice of most popular posts underneath. Come visit me in my new home. You can still find me on twitter as binarylife, and under the same uncanny name on identi.ca
Thanks for all your support and comments. You have made one self-proclaimed writer very happy.
always yours
Ana
The idea behind #AnaSellsBooks (August 10th, 2010) – about a DIY way to help finance your project, that I deployed to rise some founds for my film “30summers”. Few tips on how to use social media and particular other web tools to your benefit.
Audiotales: Erasing David Interview (Monday, May 31st) – audio recording of my interview with director David Bond for Exklusiv Magazine about his film “Erasing David”. Charming man and important matter of data privacy.
Deliver us from discourse (April 13th, 2010) – getting political about DIY/independent cinema. This was particularly popular with the film community on twitter. And sprung most emails out all my post.
Open models for digital projects (#oggcamp10 talk) (March 16th, 2010) – Prospect of talk planned for Oggcamp10 in Liverpool. I wanted to first discuss it with folk on the blog and identi.ca turns out heading the crew at Oggcamp was so much work, my talk didn’t happen. It’s still in the back of my head. Maybe next year.
Best Pictures of 2009 (January 5th, 2010) – I loath any type of annual lists/countdowns/summaries, because they mainly provide cheap material for lazy journalists, that can be chewed over and over. So – beat them with their own weapon! I decided to summarize the year in funny pictures – one thing I am truly an expert in, making this the most viewed post EVER.
4 things they won’t tell you about Linux (May 26th, 2009) – popular among my Open Source friends. This was an interesting experiment.
fun with research (May 12th, 2009) – 3rd most viewed post and probably most linked to. Apparently many people want to have fun while they work. Few tips on how to make research stage of any project more pleasurable.
Portrait by Laura Cuch (January 16th, 2009) – Meet me. Laura is a great photographer.
To Kill a Mocking Bird (January 9th, 2009) – an article on life and death of online communities based on the story of one jaiku.com. Great service that encouraged community building just by the way it was constructed. A cautionary tale.
A Day in Brands (May 22nd, 2008) – the true start of abinarylife.com. First post which went over 2 000 views. Part of an online experiment with branding, identity and place of logos in our routine. Back in the days before whiskas became one of the most prominent brands in my life.