1/3/08 chrissy

Still in process

1/3/08

The skull drawing is funny, huh. Clyde is trying to understand celebrity magazines, and recreate the good parts about them that people like.

booking

This morning, I spent some time working on my books.
It's nice to have time again.
So as I was doing this and after I had spent yesterday looking at various internet potentialities, I began to assign certain thoughts I have during the creative process to blog.
- as in, There are certain things I don't include in the sketchbooks because the time it takes to accomplish one idea requires many more ideas that I don't have the time to accomplish. Some of these ideas might be able to make it on here.

yesterday as I was looking at internet potentialities, something that didn't catch was that I couldn't imagine wanting to read my blog.
I do some stuff, but really who cares.
But of course, now that I realize an actual reason for me in this medium, it doesn't matter if anyone reads it; it allows me to accomplish my ideas.

This "reason" that I mention is story.
I'll never finish a novel, and the sketchbooks don't jive with anything written in length.
Also: when I fantasize about writing stories, I often think about how I want my story to be like a soliptic scavenger hunt through both networked information and geographic space and time. I believe that I am enthusiastic about attempting this here.

If I manage to submit regularly, I will amass an adventure of which at least I will take part.

I'm considering blogging as yesterday was my last day of job for a little while and I'm always looking for ways to be more professional.
-first, I must see what something like this looks like and whether or not my friends will be able to access it with ease.

I posted this and thought it might deserve a copy paste here.

I too have found that listing is incredibly intense. Listing pleasantries makes me feel good, listing things I don't like makes me feel bad.

A fun thing to do is to list pleasantries and then match different items from the list into completely newborn pleasantries.

For instance:
I like the think about:[and so I list]
beautiful women
birds
electronic music making machines
synesthestes
paper bags

[so then I pick a few]
synthestes & beautiful women

[of course I could simply say that beautiful female synthestes are "awesome", but I can invest more energy until I get extremely enthused; so I decide to ask myself what the most desirable qualities and/or contexts are for these examples. I will say that I like the idea of synthestes cause I like thinking about relationships between colors and sounds and letters and colors and tastes and touch. I like the idea that my senses are related and that I could possibly experience another layer of beauty.
As for beautiful women, I prefer speaking of context; I like thinking about beautiful women who are incredibly creative living in loft apartments and doing cute little things while making beautiful music; you know, Amelie-style.
So, unexpectantly, I've found that these two examples in my list are actually rather similar and I seem to like expansive applications for light/sound/and art. In synthesetes, it is an expansion through multiple senses, and with my beautiful women fantasy, it is an expansion through someone elses life.]

I understand that this is loose and confusing, but this shows another quality of listing, that it is a verb and not a noun. No one will grok your list like you do, but if you do it well, you will be sufficiently excited about it enough that others will see how much you enjoy it and they may share the experience by making their own list.

Obviously, you have touched on a pleasant nerve.
-clyde