I believe in practicality and simplicity, and try to incorporate these ideas into my life. I love analog things (like synths); I prefer handwriting to type. I like to think about art, and about the way we live today. If I had to give one piece of advice it would be this:
Ask why?
Saturday, February 12, 2011
its a rush, anyone who's done it will tell you that.
My basic view on art is that it is meant to make people think. many people today might agree that they are dealing with too many messages in their lives; it feels like I spend 90% of my waking hours trying to make sense of it all...
maybe my math is a bit off.
anyways, what I'm getting at is that more or less messages isn't the problem, but the quality...and the Effect (of course this is completely subjective to the individual). What i take from the graffiti movement in the last few decades--is these pieces in unexpected places are welcome grassroots artworks that incorporate and uplift/ even enlighten their surroundings-the most modern art form in my eyes
btw,
"The soul never thinks without an image."—Aristotle.
I’m starting up my blog again. Hopefully this will keep me off the streets and out of trouble
I've decided to restart this blog again, basically as a place to put my ramblings, since I dont expect anyone to read this. My goal is to become more accustomed to writing in a casual, yet informational way while (hopefully) offering new ideas or views on interesting issues and current events.
I've seen a few blogs of friends and people that I admire, and I'm going to try not to compare them with this... I know that its going to take a while before my writing is at a level that i'm satisfied with. Hopefully I will be able to continue this blog through the year while I search for employment, wisdom, and happiness, among other, less noble pursuits. My friend Mikhial, who is hilarious, started a very cool travel blog--except it only lasted three posts. I never told him the I liked it... Anyways, on the slim chance that someone reads this, please let me know how horrible and/or ignorant you think I am.
I'm going to try to write in here about everyday, concerning stuff that someone like me might or might not think about; pretty much anything is fair game I suppose. I plan to focus on current events on a global and local scale, with an emphasis on ideas that I believe would make the world a better place.
I just finished reading The Watchmen... SO GOOD. I highly Recommend you read it. Yea its a comic book, so what, it's the best one ever. It's the only graphic novel on Time's 2005 list of "the 100 best English-language novels." My friend said it looked stupid when I showed him I was reading it... but screw him, he's a d bag.
I picked it up when I saw the trailer for the Watchmen movie, which looks badass by the way.I was reading the wikipedia for it (probably helpful if you want to know everything) and the writer, Alan Moore, seems pretty against turning it into a movie, saying, "You can also flip back a few pages relatively easily to see where a certain image connects with a line of dialogue from a few pages ago. But in a film, by the nature of the medium, you're being dragged through it at 24 frames per second." I agree with him, you could not pull off what he and Dave Gibbons (the artist) in any other medium. Moore also said, "there's stuff in there Dave had put in that even I only noticed on the sixth or seventh read" Trailer:
I still think the movie is going to be SWEET, but for different reasons than the book was. The directer from 300 is doing it and 300 was so badass, too bad he's not gonna do it all on green screen again...
And heres the song from the trailer by smashing pumpkins, The Beginning Is The End Is The Beginning. SO APPROPRIATE, if you've read the comic you know. When you get to the end of the book you'll look back at the cover, like, "damn." lol.
I hear a lot of hate towards MJ in the last few years, but who can deny Thriller as one of the best albums EVER? Regardless of the content, it stands as the best selling album ever, that has to mean something. I mean, 7 of the 9 songs were top 10 on the charts. ridiculous. To be honest I liked him more when he was in the Jackson 5 but I love Thriller. If you feel like really listening close to this album, you'll hear the impeccable work of Quincy Jones on the production. Also, throwing Eddie Van Halen on Beat It was genius. Since I wasn't around 25 years ago I don't know what it was like when this came out, and I can't even imagine. The influence can still be heard today though, with PYT being sampled by Kanye West (Good Life) and Wanna Be Startin Somethin sampled by Rihanna (Don't Stop the Music).
Anyways, here is a nice groovy electro-house remix of Thriller.
