The hardest part about putting this site together is the travel. To shoot and create the content is requiring a lot of time away from home. Ok, so yes, it means going to Hawaii for days at a time. But this trip was really all business. As I told Nate Burgoyne at our shoot yesterday – my feet never even touched a board the whole trip. The closest I got to being in the ocean was a brief swim down in Waikiki during a break between edits.
I had my traditional “I do not want to go home” break down a couple days ago after shooting Kainoa McGee at Pipeline. (let me say here that Kainoa McGee is probably the hardest charging person I have met. The guy is superman in my book – Pipe was so heavy that day and he was just on it).
A couple of you know this, but I work a regular old desk job during the day and the site gets it’s dues at night and on the weekends. I can kind of set my own hours so I try to get in early and leave early. It is not that I “hate” my job. There are some parts that I like- such as talking to and helping clients ( I do technology consulting ) with problems and finding solutions. But there are many things about my line of “regular” work I just could do without. A close friend wondered the other day how I ended up in IT – it is a very logic oriented world with little to no creative output. I sit at a desk, review and create reports. Sit on phone meetings and conference calls, deal with bits and bytes, get complaints about things being too slow , etc.. It is very much like any other desk job out there. I live a very split life. By day, the computer geek- by night, aspiring video maker.
It is funny to think that 12 hours ago I was on a plane coming back from Hawaii having met and interacted with people that I look up to such as Blane Chambers, Allen Mozo and Kainoa McGee, and spent time with new friends like Slater Trout and his dad, and reconnected with my close friends – Morgan, Nate and Nicole. As the intercom rings and I create a report for a phone meeting in an hour- I cannot help but feel a certain sadness inside coupled with anticipation of the work that is waiting for when I get out of the office today.