A good, long post to make you think

Does taking a photograph create a power inside you? Is it a postive power? Does it satisfy a need you have to record what you see, provoke emotions or just save it for some deep-seated reason?

I often wonder why I love to design and shoot and play music. What 'need' does it truly answer? I don't know. I just can remember being totally enamored of the still image from my earliest childhood memories. Still am.

Crossroads Dispatches: "I know this blog skews towards those in self-actualization and self-transcendance camps (transcendence is often inadvertently left off as Maslow revised his pyramid of needs later on) of the pyramid, and I'm also certain it's higher these days than 2% of the total population, so I'd like to conduct a survey. (And I don't abide that there's really a 'ladder' or pyramid we're climbing much myself either, but I don't throw out all of what Maslow says either.)

I have no clue what the answers will reveal. If you'd like to chip in on questions or help me shape the questions in the survey, let me know within the next week. I'm not a prototypical example of a consumer, but neither am I opposed to buying things, experiences, or services. Go figure, a self-actualizing friend whom is in many categories a spendthrift just dropped $500 the other day on a new digital camera."