Hey — I’m Colten

I’m a collector of interests, unfinished ambitions. I enjoy loose-leaf yerba and hacky-sacking, although my dad hates it.

I have four sisters, an unreasonable number of ideas, and a tendency to get lost somewhere between what I’m doing and the seventeen things I’d rather be making.

I want to document the world. Not in the grand, geographical sense. More in the sense that I find very little uninteresting. The way someone tells a story. A place that’s been around longer than anyone remembers. The people who dedicate their lives to something most people overlook.

I’m fascinated by people. Their pursuits, their peculiarities, their little corners of the world. I think everyone is doing something worth paying attention to. Sometimes you just have to look a little closer.

I aspire to do something great one day. I’m still figuring out what that means. In the meantime, I make things. Or think about making things. Occasionally I even finish them.

I enjoy the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I have a soft spot for The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Wes Anderson’s perfectly peculiar worlds, and Evan Monsma on YouTube. I should probably watch more movies. I haven’t finished Harry Potter, which feels increasingly difficult to admit.

I know I want to create. I want to meet people, go places, learn things, and collect stories along the way.

So that’s what I’m doing.

This is my attempt to make something out of all of it.