Lifethroughalens » Snow

Lost in the Horizon

ajaymalghan — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:45:55 +0000

In my handful of years as an artist, no project has come together so easily as this one. I think its due to numerous factors but the main one is either patience or purpose. Sticking close to the story line cuts out all the guess work as well as disengaging the ego.

Tomorrow I’m going to upload The Long Way Home to my website so everyone can see it. My reason for keeping it hidden this long is I wanted to leave some element of mystery but its irrelevant when no one is even looking for it. I submitted it as my portfolio for Grad school and it got me a scholarship. All I wanted was to sell 100 copies of it so I could break even, I guess I came out on top.

I took this shot on the side of the road somewhere in Arizona. I was driving to the Grand Canyon and a snowstorm came out of nowhere….in May.

3-02-2010

ajaymalghan — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:39:39 +0000

I finally finished the mix of rid of you, I overdubbed a guitar part that sounds like a chainsaw with a motor made by Audi. The more I listen to the song the more I realize how great of an achievement it is for me. I couldn’t be happier about my drumming, guitar playing, choice of notes/tone on bass and how beautiful the bridge is. The way the vocal harmonies envelope you while the arpeggios dance around the bassline is just incredible. I could write 10 pages about how witty, sharp and raw the lyrics are, you couldn’t dream of a better kiss off song. You know you’ve written great lyrics when the intended target is livid with anger, even without the mention of her name!

Roughly one week from now I will be pain free, emotionally and physically. This is the first time in my life that I’ll ever experience this feeling. Everyone that I’ve seen in the past couple weeks has been telling me how healthy I look. The staff at my oncologists office were nearly in tears because they were so happy with how I’ve turned out, does it get any better than that?

I’m in less pain today than I’ve been for several months and I haven’t even had the stitches taken out, that’s how great this procedure was, truly incredible what they can do these days. Sometimes we as humans think about how we can make our lives better and its usually by trying to add something or someone. For me it was subtracting.

You know you’re good when you can take this kind of shot in your backyard.

12-21-09

ajaymalghan — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:32:34 +0000

I only got stuck twice driving around for these pictures.

First Snow

ajaymalghan — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:48:27 +0000

I think my camera is on its last legs, it turns off after I click the shutter. The only way to take another shot is to take out the battery, not exactly ideal circumstances while wearing gloves and shooting while its snowing. Hopefully its covered since I got it serviced by Canon in August.