My life at the Cloud, what I learn and what I do
Being a person of constant change and progress (and being somewhat addicted to clean beautiful offices), I constantly change the setup of my desk — which is easy to guess if you look at the number of posts about my desk here. This time I just give you a look at it. There is no new gear, just the position changed and I am more happy about it now than I was before.
In the end it comes down to a clean, ordered and uncluttered work-area which makes me happy and helps me to get work done.
Just for those who don’t know the other posts yet, here is a quick collection of what I have written:
Now have a look at the 4 new photos and enjoy:
I love photograph and I would love to try it under water and that is: even more after I saw those amasing shots:
There is a kinda love hate relation ship with it. I normally hate all this sports stuff where—in my mind—it is no more about the sports but about the money being earned. But sometimes I still like the meet-ups of people who party before, while and after a game. Still my focus is not on the game / tournament but on the people who celebrate but OK.
I found it interesting enough to look some matches in Spain and to photograph there but for now here are the photos about the world-cup published by the BigPicture:
I hope you enjoy the photos!
One more step in my life is finished. The final exam of this years school. The marks are not that bad and I am OK with the results. Now one more year and than I am done with ‘normal’ school. But that brings up the question what to do after. That is what I am going to think about the next time and especially the question if it is necessary to go to University or not. I hope there will be an answer because I am going to do this research in the course of a term paper.
So people lets go. Lets do this and get it done! The question is good. The answer unknown.
Update:
Ok, the subject of the term paper changed due to the problem that I noticed that it would be pretty hard to get something scientific about this school question. There are many great resources where you can look at but nothing a teacher at my school would count as scientifically usable material. Now the subject of the term paper will be Socially Responsible Investment as Demonstrated by Micro-Financing. It is also a subject I already worked on, am personally interested in and have lots of books about. Now I just need to work it out properly!
I am back to school for three weeks. I wonder when I would have some vacation. Ok Valencia was some kind of vacation. But still I had school there. And I am back to school now. And than I need to write the scientific essay in my summer holiday.
All that is pretty hard. But I kind a like it hard. Keeping my self busy.
One very nice aspect about traveling to different places is to meet different people. It is more or less the same as going to conferences or congresses. The end result is — most of the time — that you get to know other people. And one great aspect about that is that you may or may not get a place to stay in a — in the best case — different and/or foreign country.
I am right now having my last day here in Valencia, Spain and it was awesome, and I found exactly that: people I can contact if I come to their country to stay with them — or at least I can ask if there is a possibility to stay and if not, they can help me find one.
And in addition — besides staying at their places — you get to know other cultures a little bit. The background of different people, the stories, what they experienced over the past years and how they think. So my advice: get out of your comfort zone and meet different people, others than the once you always communicate, act, work or party with. It is exhausting, different and interesting to meet others but over all it is worth it!
Now, today I would like to get you to visit my Photography Portfolio. This is a different kind of post, not often done here (it’s probably the first time ever). I do photography and I take many photos, upload some at Flickr and some at my special Photography Site. Have a look!
Well I am pretty good at doing stuff which is not productive — also refereed to as procrastination. But that is for sure one of the worst things todo! And me — and you — should focus on getting procrastination out of our life’s!
One thing I like to do if I procrastinate is shopping online. Just looking at things I could buy — which are most likely to be expensive toys for my camera gear or a new MacBook — but don’t need right now. I could also use that time to just go out shoot some nice photographs and get better with the gear I already own — which is pretty massive. Or I could study for school which would probably be a important thing todo.
In the end I think I have many problems in my time management. I am a bit unfocused and can procrastinate very well. But lately I am getting better in focusing and just ‘doing’ stuff — even if I am scared of it, which is if I need to write an email to somebody I do not really know. I just need to say: 10 Minutes and I need to have this ready. And that works most of the time!
The best feature of the treetop office, Joe might say, is the girl who comes in on the hour, sprawls across the desk and sings his nonsensical code — sometimes rapping, other times Christmas carolling — before abruptly retreating to her own lair, where she’s also writing, except in English.
The thing I admire about this space the most are the two cinema Displays and the way the photos are taken — that way the space looks so bright and a bit dreamie. But take a look your self!
Hi and welcome, my name is Christoph Spiegl, I'm a full-time student, entrepreneur, designer, web-publisher, photographer and mac addicted. If you are interested, come on and read [more]