tempora mutantur, et nos mutamur in illis

It seems cliche, but it really is strange to realize the year is almost halfway done - and what a busy year it has been so far! I know I've definitely written about it before here, but it seems especially true in 2026 that the more things change, the more they stay the same (side note, this post is just chockful of cliches at the moment, so please bare with me); that in and of itself is rather funny, as its most definitely been a year of change.

Before we get into the changes, it only seems fair to get into literally everything else.

So what's really been going on, in between work and travel? A lot of planning and reflection, to absolutely no surprise for anyone who knows me. It's not unusual for me to jump back into old projects when my anxiety levels are high, and with everything going on in the world and with the economy, this year has been no exception. There were losses (pour one out for my Phoenix Minolta, which finally gave up the ghost in the last few months), but with those came some nice surprises (a rescued Canon AE-1 that I've been shooting happily with in the meantime). For the Book Project, which has long been my most active continuous physical project, I've had the opportunity to also jump back into the digitalization, which has been on pause for a number of years simply due to timing and honest procrastination. It's been giving me so much perspective on where I've been and where I want to continue to go - I've been so stagnate in terms of my thought processes, it's been nice to jump back a few years mentally and apply that same sort of inspiration to what I want to do next.

That really dovetails nicely into the change portion of 2026; not to completely bury the lead, but I'm really invigorated regarding what's to come in the back half of the year (with promises of more frequent updates). Although I'm not completely where I want to be yet, this is honestly the most excited I've been about change in ages. It's funny, since although some of my recent anxiety has been about the future, I'm optimistic as well, which is where I think all of my current inspiration is coming from. The perspective of everything is a nice combination of where I've come from to where I'm going. It's a happily weird space to reside in creatively.

Finally!

Thank god for snow - that's all I can say :D

First things first - rrutledgeonline.tumblr.com is going to be updating the rest of this weekend with some photos and mixtapes after I resuscitated it from the unintentional coma I put it in during 2013. My bad. At least if you had been following miss-printed.tumblr.com, you got the craziness of my everyday mind ;P
Also, I finally fell through the rabbit hole and created a twitter account - check out my about me page to check out the links for not only that, but my instagram and pinterest accounts too :D

Other new things - both the Film Photography and Digital Photography galleries (both of the various year galleries, if you want specifics) have been updated to reflect work from the last year or so. The Music Series gallery, which I've had work ready to upload for ages, but just haven't had the time to (story of my life), also got a bit of a facelift. And finally, like I mentioned yesterday, I updated my links section as well.

Now that all of the basics are done, we're onto the big updates!!!

 Tiny Little Boxes | March 20, 2012, 3:09pm

If you've been following my updates around here at all, I've been talking about a print project I've been working on for just about forever (like here and here and most recently, here). Tiny Little Boxes is what comes from my original love of making art for my mixtapes, and combining it with the time based thought process behind The Book Project and The Calendar Project. I've seriously fallen in love with making these little snap shots of life, and I'm in the process of trying to figure out a way to display them in a way that makes the most sense. For right now, my first print trial has worked out pretty well and I've been giving away the first couple prints to friends and family. We'll see where it goes from there.

The other major update is my newest gallery, which will be displaying all of my blogging, marketing and promotional work that I've written or helped create. For me, everything comes back to a visual representation, and although the gallery is currently small (as in, only one thing so far), the twists and turns of my current employment ensure that, especially in 2014, it'll become a lot more interesting in the new year.

So, that's about it. I'm actually going to try and update this more than once or twice a year, and seeing as I'm currently three posts in to 2014, it's going well so far. Enjoy the winter storm, everyone!