As a kid, much like anyone else, I explored every creative, athletic, and academic discipline I had the opportunity to. I let myself be interested in things without a need to understand why, and without feeling compelled to justify how I spent my time. A great many of those interests took root in my mind: video production, photography, playing piano and guitar, golf, swimming, tennis. A pretty typical collection for a kid in junior high and high school.
As I moved onto college and then medical school, as you might expect, my collection of interests continued to evolve. But the need I felt to engage them never waned. This intense drive to maintain some manner of multidimensionality is perhaps my single most defining characteristic. Certainly, the time pressure of my medical training gradually pushed away many of my less vital extracurricular interests, but even throughout residency, fellowship, the beginnings of my career in neuroradiology, and my early journey into fatherhood, I've worked to carve out opportunities to keep doing the things that I feel make me, me.
Outdoor adventures, photography, filmmaking, writing—these are the interests I could never let go of. Along the way, I've added more: astrophotography, 3D modeling and rendering, virtual reality, game development. Together, these endeavors allow me a multidimensional life.
This website was borne out of a desire to share the products of these interests in one unified and customized place. A place where I can share my creations in the way I see fit, without conforming to the content delivery constraints of whatever social media platform happens to be most popular at the time. A singular catch-all outlet for any type of media, allowing me to avoid the immense hassle of publishing different things to different places.
Of course, I don't expect many people to stumble across this website (if you have, great!). But putting in the effort to collect and curate my creations into one place helps to calm the mental scatteredness that might otherwise come with my multitude of interests. It allows me a well-organized place to retrospectively enjoy all the wonderful experiences I've had. It provides a sort of motivation for my creations, knowing that they won't simply exist on hard drives never to be seen by others—I might at least show them to friends and colleagues. It gives me something to point to when people ask what I do outside of work. For me, the benefits are entirely intangible, and subjective.
To provide a sort of orientation, in what I call The Chronicle, I chronicle—hence the name—my most significant experiences and projects through photo, written word, and film. Elsewhere on the site you’ll find galleries of my photos (both traditional and astronomical), collections of my old films and videos, and a catalog of my preferred gear for doing all the things I do. Have a look around!
