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Friday, November 4, 2011
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Garbage and Creation
I've been absent from blogging. It's been a personal challenge for me to re-organize and focus what I would like to express here in this place for you. Initially, my goal with this blog was to keep my mother informed of my life here in LA while she resides in San Francisco. But thanks to Facetime (Thanks again, Steve J!) I can communicate with her on a different level. My hopes are to create a place that allows readers into a space that is comforting, yet inspiring. Here goes nothing ...
Frankly, there's a lot of junk disguised as creativity these days. Towers and towers of garbage inventions and perverted artwork that have been mutated into something terrible that eats other works of "recycled"creations (much like pollution) that have be created by talented people in order to make money. You know these. They're the contributions to our world that are made to make a select few wealthy and are not meant for the greater development of humanity- commercials, re-makes, cookie cutter homes. They miss the mark when it comes to communicating the heartwarming characteristics of humanity such as nurturing, soulful, and thoughtful. Tell me that art is in the eye of the beholder when I give you two tickets to Bring It On the Musical for Christmas. And don't forget to say "thank you."
But there are good people (good people? checked!) who aren't trying to cultivate and protect our ideas from the putrid clouds of "what everyone else wants", "it's ok" and "if they think this is ok, then I think it's OK". We can only do one thing and it's to put ourselves in everything we do and listening to our built-in shit detectors when our senses tells us we're in the presence of greatness. Some people are so good at this, but those of us who have an affinity for the offensive need some practice. I'd like to begin with taking time for careful observation and engaged listening with a lean towards optimism.
Great ideas are all around us. Art and creation have taken all sorts of form in new media. All it takes to see this is to acknowledge the craft and therefore the beauty in most things. I carefully assume intention. It's not quite safe to always weigh our opinions on intention because sometimes the best part of a creative idea is in the process and reception. For instance, I absolutely love pop music. (defined as accessible music) I think it's made for the masses and often is the money-making pollution I complained about earlier. However, every now and then I come across something I find truly crafted and composed that it's refreshing. But one wouldn't notice the craftsmanship without actually listening. Or hey even noticing how funny your friends are in 140 characters or less. Or even listening to your friend's retelling of his motorcycle adventures.
Hint: The best way to appreciate is to try the activity (say writing, singing, etc) to see how much hard work it takes to become 150% better than the person next to you.
It takes very little effort to dismiss art and crafstmanship these days. After all, we are overstimulated by all of the things we can do at once thanks to technology. We're always looking to have more time, but what are we doing with all the extra time? Oh yeah, sleeping. But say we take some time from our vanity or our indulgence to appreciate something truly beautiful whether it be a plant and its organic structure to the architecture we work in. Or even a logo and design that went into the TV show you're watching. There is always something to be grateful for somewhere nearby.
So back to Bring It On, the Musical... While this IS a money-making vehicle that was made solely to pull more money out of the pockets of Bring It On fanatics (there have to be at least 15...), you might just really find the performers talented or the overall joke of it to be worth writing about. Because you never know what will make you happy until well it makes you happy.
Frankly, there's a lot of junk disguised as creativity these days. Towers and towers of garbage inventions and perverted artwork that have been mutated into something terrible that eats other works of "recycled"creations (much like pollution) that have be created by talented people in order to make money. You know these. They're the contributions to our world that are made to make a select few wealthy and are not meant for the greater development of humanity- commercials, re-makes, cookie cutter homes. They miss the mark when it comes to communicating the heartwarming characteristics of humanity such as nurturing, soulful, and thoughtful. Tell me that art is in the eye of the beholder when I give you two tickets to Bring It On the Musical for Christmas. And don't forget to say "thank you."
But there are good people (good people? checked!) who aren't trying to cultivate and protect our ideas from the putrid clouds of "what everyone else wants", "it's ok" and "if they think this is ok, then I think it's OK". We can only do one thing and it's to put ourselves in everything we do and listening to our built-in shit detectors when our senses tells us we're in the presence of greatness. Some people are so good at this, but those of us who have an affinity for the offensive need some practice. I'd like to begin with taking time for careful observation and engaged listening with a lean towards optimism.
Great ideas are all around us. Art and creation have taken all sorts of form in new media. All it takes to see this is to acknowledge the craft and therefore the beauty in most things. I carefully assume intention. It's not quite safe to always weigh our opinions on intention because sometimes the best part of a creative idea is in the process and reception. For instance, I absolutely love pop music. (defined as accessible music) I think it's made for the masses and often is the money-making pollution I complained about earlier. However, every now and then I come across something I find truly crafted and composed that it's refreshing. But one wouldn't notice the craftsmanship without actually listening. Or hey even noticing how funny your friends are in 140 characters or less. Or even listening to your friend's retelling of his motorcycle adventures.
Hint: The best way to appreciate is to try the activity (say writing, singing, etc) to see how much hard work it takes to become 150% better than the person next to you.
It takes very little effort to dismiss art and crafstmanship these days. After all, we are overstimulated by all of the things we can do at once thanks to technology. We're always looking to have more time, but what are we doing with all the extra time? Oh yeah, sleeping. But say we take some time from our vanity or our indulgence to appreciate something truly beautiful whether it be a plant and its organic structure to the architecture we work in. Or even a logo and design that went into the TV show you're watching. There is always something to be grateful for somewhere nearby.
So back to Bring It On, the Musical... While this IS a money-making vehicle that was made solely to pull more money out of the pockets of Bring It On fanatics (there have to be at least 15...), you might just really find the performers talented or the overall joke of it to be worth writing about. Because you never know what will make you happy until well it makes you happy.
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