Personal Project – If I was you’re DJ.
Ideas:
1. make a photography book
2. hands - photography series
3. lean to dj
4. portraits of strangers
5. redesign work merch
6. retro inspired still life collection
7. plastic and plants photo series
8. film recreation
9. logo redesign
10. design art for my house Last Thursday, while scrolling through TikTok, I stumbled upon videos of people teaching themselves how to DJ. I’ve felt an interest in learning this skill for a long time but entertaining this idea seemed overwhelming and dumb.
One thing I’ve been missing is attending shows music has always been a significant part of my life, and it was actually through attending a show and taking photos that I rediscovered photography and decided to pursue it professionally. Being a music photographer is my dream, and now the idea of creating music myself feels like a natural progression. Even if it’s just for my own enjoyment and I never perform at a show or event, I want to explore this because why not? I understand that learning to DJ is not a quick project, but it’s the one goal on my list that I felt the most connected to.
So where to even begin? I have a computer and headphones, and I have access to music, so the missing piece is a mixing board. Yeah, I know you can get software on your computer, but I want to push fancy buttons that light up. I reached out to a couple of friends who make music and they either told me to not do it or to buy a board that is around $100 because they all do the same thing. The problem is I have no idea what I’m looking at so after some research, I figured out a pioneer DJ board is the best option but I need to do more research on what software will work best for me I didn’t have time this week I just convinced myself that I wanna learn to DJ and that’s kind of as far as I got so my plan of action over the next couple weeks is to continue researching and pick out what I want to get and I’m going to drag my friend who DJs under the name kuroneko to come with me and hold my hand through the process.
Unfortunately, I did not have time to become a DJ this week I did have time to make a very long playlist and now that I’ve made a blog post about this DREAM and taken the time to write this nonsense I’m going to put my money where my mouth is.
