I’ve found myself stumbling into the actions which are mentioned in this weeks reading in regards to archiving tonight. I was having dinner with some friends and pinpointed with my friend Mitch that there was a picture that I’d sent him in the past that looked suspiciously thematically similar to his album art for one of his musical works. I then spent the rest of tonight looking for the photo, benefiting from being someone that found it important to archive material and finding the picture.

But then I realised of course it goes far beyond this, I think back to the videos I filmed simply speculatively trying to flip it into tangible content later (music videos, etc) and theres just so many files, and duplicates of files scattered everywhere that in this creative praxis is destined to be useful in some manner I would say, perhaps especially if you subconsciously deliberate on a means of documenting, that is all your videos that you film in general fall within lingering, then the follow on effect is that in the future it will be incredibly simple to create finished video works that are just an ensemble of the multitude of archived videos that i have previously filmed. in a way it could ensure that one could continue to have a endless stream of non-fiction work to be created, which seems endlessly beneficial, whilst also being thoroughly rewarding?

i guess that is only if you pick up the option to then create the pieces, otherwise they could just get lost.