Susan Sontag reads (and writes). (In a bear suit.)
(via gardenfullofthoughts)
maggie does art, food and crazy.
cape town, south africa. • questions cost two cents.
burnt but buttered toast.
cape town, south africa. • questions cost two cents.
burnt but buttered toast.
| her: | are you scared of failing? |
| me: | isn't everybody? |
| her: | perhaps. but not everybody's fear is paralysing. |
“When it all goes quiet behind my eyes, I see everything that made me lying around in invisible pieces. When I look too hard, it goes away. And when it all goes quiet, I see they are right here. I see that I’m a little piece in a big, big universe. And that makes things right. When I die, the scientists of the future, they’re gonna find it all.”
— Hushpuppy, Beasts of the Southern Wild.
i was about to write a really whiny post on how hard it is to make art at the moment, how hard it is to create shit and be productive and how there is just NOTHING.
and then i remembered this:
quit the bitching on your blog,
stop pretending art is hard.
oh, to think i was going to pour that much energy into reminding myself that I’m depressed because i’m not making anything by making something about not making something.
lol.
the rules clearly state that when you are depressed you are allowed to stay at home and eat honey cheerios and look at pictures of cats and cute boys on the internet instead of going on dates.
and the noon gun just went off. i’m still in bed. how.
omg. googling 120 pinhole camera DIYs and omg I know what my new project is. omg. i am going to build a camera.
Trying to gather up bits o’ other people’s creativity.
Important Things From This Video:
- the idea of ideas “growing up together” sometimes ideas in different media are the same thing and you need to combine them.
- ideas strike at random. this is something i know very, very well but like to forget because when the ideas haven’t been coming for a while you forget to take the pen and paper along with you where ever you go.
- feeling a sense of responsibility to enjoy what you do because you are doing what you love.
“For the first time in years I am scared of the dark,
Afraid that he will appear in my headlights.”
— Sierra De Mulder
