Did I mention I moved?

You can find me on my own site now!

http://jaredhead.net

Check it!

Gone Till Feb. 1st – Relaunch expected then…

Sorry I’ve been out of touch. My life is now busier than ever, and the fact is that baseball season/work isn’t even around yet, so I can’t imagine how busy it will be when that time comes around. I can’t wait for it though. Photography has kept me busy, as it’s now a class I’m taking. Maybe I’ll put some photos up.

My writing has slowed to minimal, which is the way I want it till I offically kick into high gear again Feb. 1st. That’ll also be the day I’m launching my new myspace for my authorial self, hopefully building up some hype for me as an author.

So stick around till then. For now, take it easy and if you’re in LA, stay dry!

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Cheers,

Jared

Project Static

Project Static

Ladies and Gentlemen, the madness that is Static has begun. Click and gaze upon a revolution in the way books are written!

Seriously, just have a look at this cool project I’m working on now. It’s the first fully internet based collaborative book.

Keep an eye on us: we’re going to be big.

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Cheers,

Jared

A New Project

Last night I was doing my usual banter with South African author Wogan May when he asked an interesting question. It’s a little too early in the morning for me to remember it exactly, but to paraphrase, he basically said, “You know what would be cool? If we could do a collaborative book.”

So, thus, a new writing project was born. But not just an old project, no, not with us at the helm of an idea.

We’re not using the old fashion style of paper, pencils and pens.

We’re not even going to be using the likes of Microsoft Word either.

We’ll be using a three-way combo of googleTalk, googleDocs and Skype. Once done with the novel’s post work, we’ll be self-publishing on through the highly-acclaimed internet based publishing house Lulu.

We think this is the first novel to be developed, written and published completely by way of internet.

So there you have it.

Right now we’re developing the plot through googleDocs. Make sure to pay attention to my youtube channel, so I’ll start updating it as soon as possible.

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Cheers,

Jared

I’m Still Alive

I’ve been and I’m going to be busy for the next few weeks as this semester of college finally ends.

I wrote quite a bit while up in Crestline over the Thanksgiving holiday, and it’s followed me home. My long 6 month stint with hazy ideas is gone. Everything has become clear. Today I met with my former creative writing professor and we discussed how I can get published…I alos dropped off the prologue/first 3 chapters of my original work, “There”.

So for now, I’m in my writing studio, writing away.

Cheers,

Jared

Sick as a Dog

Right now i’m very sick, so I wont be able to write till I’m feeling better.

Sorry everyone.

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Cheers,

Jared

That’s no Moon! It’s a Space Station (sort of)!

When I was a kid, I was really into everything astronomy. Over time, I lost that fire within me, but tonight, something resparked that.

Comet 17/P Holmes.

I was browsing wikipedia for info for a paper I’m writing tomorrow, and I spotted an article on the comet and upon reading “visible to the naked eye”, I ran out with a pair of binoculars. Looking into the low Northeast sky, I found it after ten or so minutes of searching. I dragged my parents out, and both found it immediately within the binoculars.

Then, I decided to take my PD-150 (a professional level miniDV camera) out and take a few snap shots. I ended up taking video since the shutter speed was super low (1/4th of a second, the photo mode only went as low as 1/60th of a second) and captured the photos from frames in the video.

So, ladies and gentleman, here’s one of the photos I took:

17/P Holmes can be viewed anywhere in the world.

More info can be found by clicking here.

Happy viewing.

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Cheers,

Jared

Socal is Burning Pt. 2

Today there were at least 18 individual wildfires burning. A few have reached full containment, and several are within the 10%-20% containment range. But the overwhelming majority are at the same level of 0% containment.

I thought yesterday was pretty bad with all the smoke and ash filling up over half of the sky. I was dead wrong about today not getting any worse like I had thought.

Today, the entire sky was filled with smoke, and ash was coming down like sprinkling rain. I’m a former asthmatic (destroyed it courtesy of running/cycling), so my concern is whether ash will begin to fall even thicker tomorrow. It’s already at the point where I’m feeling terrible anytime I go outside.

Then again, I can only imagine how it feels to be any of those people who have lost their homes. I can’t believe over a thousand homes have been lost. And they saying that fire in San Diego is so powerful, that it may burn till it reaches the ocean.

These fires are unlike anything we have ever seen before.

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Cheers,

Jared

p.s. The closest fire is about 30 miles away from where I live.

I’m now on Youtube

So I’ve been entertaining the idea of making a Youtube channel about becoming a writer for quite some time. Today, I finally went through and got one.

You can reach it by clicking here.

I’ll be trying to update everyday, and it’s going to be an in depth look at what it takes to become a writer and my long road ahead in regards to being published.

Hopefully it’ll become something big, but only if you guys help me out!

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Cheers,

Jared

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Ah yes. It’s that time of year when it all begins to get into gear. Everything is falling into its perfect place, and I’m as happy as can be. With the weight of needing the Angels to win the AL West off of my shoulders, I can sit down and have some good ol’ Jared time.

 

That means a lot of writing.

 

Lately, things haven’t been going well. Call it a combo of lack of focus, writers block and zero inspiration. A triple threat. But alas, a savior always seems to make it’s way, and this time it’s in the form of music.

 

I mentioned the band “Godspeed You! Black Emperor” before, as to how beautiful their music was.

 

Right now I’m really into their song “Terrible Canyons of Static”, especially the first 4 and half minutes. It’s so hauntingly pure as it twists up and down. Music like this needs to be spread to everyone.

 

When I listen to their music it’s like I’m back in my early days of writing. That same feeling of elation is there, which seems to have burnt out slightly nowadays. I’m glad to say that I’m slowly getting that feeling back, along with anticipation of new experiences as I write.

 

“Adrenaline Writers” is coming next.

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Cheers,

Jared