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Friday Fiving It
Feb. 27th, 2004 12:12 pm1. What is your favorite type of artistic expression and why? (painting, sculpture, instrumental music, singing, acting, dancing, writing, etc.)
Music, sometimes with visuals (ala Fantasia or Beyond the Minds Eye). Generally,
complex instrumental (or have complex instrumental parts where the voice is but one instrument and not the most important).
2. What type of artistic expression do you wish you COULD do that you can't currently?
Photoshop. I just can't use it to make anything remotely "natural" looking. Anything I edit in there and I can see the edits and their flaws and I just don't like it. As with most art forms, I'm my own worst critic.
In a sense, like with music composition, I know so much about the mathematics of it all that I can't see any "art" in what I try to create with it.
3. If you could be a type of artistic expression (painting, song, play) what would you be and why?
I don't answer these kinds of questions. If I could be anything, I'd be human, and guess what, I already am. ;-)
4. What 3 pieces of art/book/movie/play/song have effected you most in your life, and why?
Fantasia -- music with visuals, introduction to *really* complex stuff (Rite of Spring, e.g.), art of animation (I never thought of it as a "cartoon", and viewed cartoons themselves differently as a result)
Chariots of Fire -- How one can be true to their faith by example and integrity, and not by throwing it in others faces or trying to proseletize where its neither needed nor wanted. Also an example (repeated often in my own life) of how when something happens that one thinks is bad, it can leave room for something far better to come along. "He who honors me, I will honor." (as examples: my current job, my last job, the fact that I morris dance, the fact that I work faire as Cat & the Fiddle, and many other things all happened after something i thought or wished would (or wouldn't) happen took place)
Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- first introduction to British humor. also first time I really realized I was wierd, because that book made absolute sense to me, so much so that I just couldn't understand how it wouldn't make sense to other people...
can't stop at 3
Leo Busgaglia's Love -- read it and you'll understand why its here.
Mike Oldfield's Ommadawn -- soundtrack of my life in many ways.
5. and, on a completely different note, What character from classical literature (including plays) do you most relate to and why?
D'Artagnan from the original Three Musketeers (and not the romantic-leading-man types from most of the movies). A bit of a clutz, often missing some social graces, often out of my element. But once in my element, among peers, I quickly prove to be a very talented and capable person.
Other aspects of my personality, including my Scientific analytical mind and healthy skepticism, I can't really recall seeing in any clasic literature. I wouldn't say I matched Holmes because of the difference in how I approach and apply reason. If in a Shakespeare play, I would likely get a role without much character development, but having lots to say in the long exposition passages that keep the audience up to speed with the plot, like the Bishop explaining the Sallic Law claim at the beginning of Henry V.
Music, sometimes with visuals (ala Fantasia or Beyond the Minds Eye). Generally,
complex instrumental (or have complex instrumental parts where the voice is but one instrument and not the most important).
2. What type of artistic expression do you wish you COULD do that you can't currently?
Photoshop. I just can't use it to make anything remotely "natural" looking. Anything I edit in there and I can see the edits and their flaws and I just don't like it. As with most art forms, I'm my own worst critic.
In a sense, like with music composition, I know so much about the mathematics of it all that I can't see any "art" in what I try to create with it.
3. If you could be a type of artistic expression (painting, song, play) what would you be and why?
I don't answer these kinds of questions. If I could be anything, I'd be human, and guess what, I already am. ;-)
4. What 3 pieces of art/book/movie/play/song have effected you most in your life, and why?
Fantasia -- music with visuals, introduction to *really* complex stuff (Rite of Spring, e.g.), art of animation (I never thought of it as a "cartoon", and viewed cartoons themselves differently as a result)
Chariots of Fire -- How one can be true to their faith by example and integrity, and not by throwing it in others faces or trying to proseletize where its neither needed nor wanted. Also an example (repeated often in my own life) of how when something happens that one thinks is bad, it can leave room for something far better to come along. "He who honors me, I will honor." (as examples: my current job, my last job, the fact that I morris dance, the fact that I work faire as Cat & the Fiddle, and many other things all happened after something i thought or wished would (or wouldn't) happen took place)
Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- first introduction to British humor. also first time I really realized I was wierd, because that book made absolute sense to me, so much so that I just couldn't understand how it wouldn't make sense to other people...
can't stop at 3
Leo Busgaglia's Love -- read it and you'll understand why its here.
Mike Oldfield's Ommadawn -- soundtrack of my life in many ways.
5. and, on a completely different note, What character from classical literature (including plays) do you most relate to and why?
D'Artagnan from the original Three Musketeers (and not the romantic-leading-man types from most of the movies). A bit of a clutz, often missing some social graces, often out of my element. But once in my element, among peers, I quickly prove to be a very talented and capable person.
Other aspects of my personality, including my Scientific analytical mind and healthy skepticism, I can't really recall seeing in any clasic literature. I wouldn't say I matched Holmes because of the difference in how I approach and apply reason. If in a Shakespeare play, I would likely get a role without much character development, but having lots to say in the long exposition passages that keep the audience up to speed with the plot, like the Bishop explaining the Sallic Law claim at the beginning of Henry V.
