Sometime This Week Polyhacker
posted by Scott Hsu-Storaker at 5:59 PM
I recently started thinking about my lack of sleep and how much of a challenge it is to find quality time to work on art. What got me going was reading Noah Dyer's bravely insane public attempt at polyphasic sleep. I have effectively switched my schedule over to a semi-early bird schedule. I wake up, usually without an alarm, an hour or more early than I used to. The only problem is that I still find I want to stay up late to work. I can't hang much past 1 am like I did a couple months ago, but even so, falling asleep has become a strangely different experience. I no longer cross over to unconciousness easily. I often drift into a wierd twilight stage. A kind of fugue state. I am awake, I know I am awake, but I am completely unable to do anything. I can't move... well, I'm not paralyzed, but the urge to remain in a resting position is overwhelming. I can stay that way for up to an hour. I often drift off to what I consider sleep and then return to this phase. Very, very odd. Late night now has become a thoroughly unproductive time. Dangit!
~---~
Tick, Tock, D'oh
8 weeks and counting to Babyville. Productive art and writing time is slipping away -- I will be back in full force at some point though. The coming period will be a true test of my philosophies on maintaining a vital virtual team, with me being less involved for a couple of months.
~---~
A Small Roundup
Khaine has been busy, back on modeling stuff. I've been stuck on one texture all week. Here are a few to show off, though.
~---~
Thousander Club Update
Welcome to Casey, two weeks into his thousand hours. Good luck, man!
Casey Dunham's hours (started two weeks ago) -- 18
GBGames' hours (4/3) -- 61
GBGames' game ideas (4/3)-- 212
I'll do it on monday's hours (3/20) -- 133
Scott's 1000 hours (4/3) -- 111
1000 models -- 140
1000 downloads -- 840
~---~
Stay free.
~shs~
Related Topics
How to Grow an Artists' Collective
Non-phasic Sleep
Inky Spots
Twilight and Fugue
I recently started thinking about my lack of sleep and how much of a challenge it is to find quality time to work on art. What got me going was reading Noah Dyer's bravely insane public attempt at polyphasic sleep. I have effectively switched my schedule over to a semi-early bird schedule. I wake up, usually without an alarm, an hour or more early than I used to. The only problem is that I still find I want to stay up late to work. I can't hang much past 1 am like I did a couple months ago, but even so, falling asleep has become a strangely different experience. I no longer cross over to unconciousness easily. I often drift into a wierd twilight stage. A kind of fugue state. I am awake, I know I am awake, but I am completely unable to do anything. I can't move... well, I'm not paralyzed, but the urge to remain in a resting position is overwhelming. I can stay that way for up to an hour. I often drift off to what I consider sleep and then return to this phase. Very, very odd. Late night now has become a thoroughly unproductive time. Dangit!
~---~
Tick, Tock, D'oh
8 weeks and counting to Babyville. Productive art and writing time is slipping away -- I will be back in full force at some point though. The coming period will be a true test of my philosophies on maintaining a vital virtual team, with me being less involved for a couple of months.
~---~
A Small Roundup
Khaine has been busy, back on modeling stuff. I've been stuck on one texture all week. Here are a few to show off, though.
~---~
Thousander Club Update
Welcome to Casey, two weeks into his thousand hours. Good luck, man!
Casey Dunham's hours (started two weeks ago) -- 18
GBGames' hours (4/3) -- 61
GBGames' game ideas (4/3)-- 212
I'll do it on monday's hours (3/20) -- 133
Scott's 1000 hours (4/3) -- 111
1000 models -- 140
1000 downloads -- 840
~---~
Stay free.
~shs~
Related Topics
How to Grow an Artists' Collective
Non-phasic Sleep
Inky Spots
posted by Scott Hsu-Storaker at 5:59 PM
2 Comments:
I haven't really done anything toward my thousander club committment lately, and I haven't even been blogging. I guess i'm just lazy. I'll try harder soon though.
How come it is that all us indie types who blog, don't end up coming up to the level we think we should be at. There's got to be a reason, like the reason for our blogs. Personal Productivity and Time Managment seem elusive creatures like the Unicorn or the Mermaid.
If we could identity what we all have in common that's stopping us from reaching our goals, I think we could overcome those obstacles.
Keith
12:04 AM
It does seem to be all I write about these days. And it's all I read about, too. Maybe I just spend too much time doing that instead of working.
Seriously though, this is something I was discussing with my son's teacher the other day. I have a difficult time starting. The state that my mind reaches when I am creating art is so deeply absorbed in creating that I lose track of everything. It's hard to slip into that state and harder to get out, so it takes a commitment. To a certain extent I have trained myself to jump in and out pretty quickly because I only have bits and bites of time these days with my other commitments. But with the baby coming my new problem is that even the bits and bites are getting eaten up. I simply fall asleep before I get enough done.
Scott
10:16 AM
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