The problem: create a design for the front page of my site (and perhaps this blog too, in time). The vision: a dark theme, using fantasy and sci-fi material as inspiration (planets, stars, floating islands…). The solution: uhh…?

I call it “creative paralysis”. It’s something similar to writer’s block (which, incidentally, I happen to encounter constantly when I’m writing academic papers and such). I suppose it’s different in that the idea is already at hand; the issue is figuring out what to do with it.

For me, I’m thinking that my lack of experience in Photoshop (and artistic skills in general) is holding me back. I’ll probably end up messing around randomly and hope things work out. Who knows, I might actually learn something in the process…

I probably have a few hundred or so images in my head that I’d love to get on paper. Hell, my lucid dreams can probably form the basis of several short stories. Now, if only the details were a bit clearer…

Seriously, if there was a machine that could materialize thoughts into physical matter, I’d venture to say that we’d be living in a rather interesting world. In the meantime, I’d be happy if virtual/augmented reality stuff went mainstream.