Sam Schrantz has created an unusually large web presence thanks to her myriad of small, somewhat consentient yet infrequent hobbies.
These include, but are not limited to:
Photography
Educational Video Production
Personal Life Vlogs
Book Writing
+Probably more that I've forgotten
More details regarding each hobby can be found below. If you've noticed a particularly long absence from one of the below links, then it's only a matte of waiting.
Sam runs an occasional blog where she sometimes makes posts about places she's been or things she's done.
It's currently in the proccess of moving from a Wordpress Blog to a locally hosted one.
Sam primarily does photography while traveling, as a means to document the interesting places she's gone in her life.
High-volume photography while on vacation was picked up for two primary reasons:
It's really, very fun to use my camera to take pictures of really cool places.
I suffer from a pretty strange form of long-term memory loss, so if I fail to document something, I will likely forget that it ever happened.
Her Flickr page, as of right now, is home to over 18,000 photos, with over 53% of those being from Washington State.
The best photo I've ever taken
S. Olin S. Logo
I used to work with this guy named Olin. We named the joint venture S. Olin S. as a nod to the collaboration. Olin was the main writer for the projects, while I would work on producing those scripts into finalized products.
It is unclear to me exactly what Olin is doing now, as he mae it known that he was moving on to do... something and wouldn't be available to write for the S. Olin S. projects anymore. I don't have the time to write and produce videos for the channel at the moment, but I do have several topics on my mind that I'll eventually publish.
My video logs are far more infrequent, but occupies a similar role to the photography.
Beyond the mental heath justifications though, making video logs is a lot of fun and I very much plan on continuing the hobby very soon.
SamSchrantz YouTube Channel Banner
Horizon Book Cover
(Everything on this website will soon migrate to keionbu) Book Writing
Book writing was another venture under the S. Olin S. collaboration. I was the idea woman and worldbuilder, while Olin was the one who actually dedicated himself to writing it all down, and then it would come back to me to publish under the pen name.
Horizon was released in late 2019, and another book was in the works until Olin disappeared in early 2020, shortly before the pandemic. I still have all the ideas, and am working to find the time to continue writing that follow-up.