003 — The Builder's High
If you’ve forgotten who I am then I don’t blame you, as it’s been a couple of weeks. I broke the cardinal rule of this newsletter — consistency. I’m Jamie Dumont and you probably signed up to this newsletter on madebyjamie.com where I write about Makers.
Today I want to tell you about someone important. Someone that is partly, and but directly responsible for everything that I will ever publish here.
I started this newsletter wanting to talk about more than just photography. Picking up a camera is just the most recent act of making for me, but there have been — and still are — so many more.
This attraction to creating things has been an almost ever-present feature in my life. As a child I built a tree house, driving my Dad nuts by raiding his tools and leaving them out in the rain. The garden got covered in sawdust when I made myself a wooden ramp for my mountain bike or a skimboard for hot summer days down at the beach. Music, design, photos, bikes, cars — there was always a project. When I moved to London I lost the space to make physical things, but fell in love with writing software and cooking. There has always been an activity in my life that allowed me to bring something into the world that didn't exist before.
Often these creations weren't great — I distinctly remember the ramp being hair-raising on account of the radius being far too aggressive — but whatever the result I loved the process.
