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Favourite genre of music: Folk/Rock and Roll/Indie/Electro/Classical
Favourite style of art: Music.
Operating System: Mac Os
MP3 player of choice: iPod
Shell of choice: Turtle
Wallpaper of choice: Science of Sleep's Disasterology
Skin of choice: Could I wear you like coat?
Favourite style of art: Music.
Operating System: Mac Os
MP3 player of choice: iPod
Shell of choice: Turtle
Wallpaper of choice: Science of Sleep's Disasterology
Skin of choice: Could I wear you like coat?
Favourite Visual Artist
James Klein/Christopher Koelle/Michel Gondry/Brandon Morgan/J. M. W. Turner
Favourite Movies
Garden State, Science of Sleep, Almost Famous, Legend of 1900, Beatles: The Yellow Submarine
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Nick Drake
Favourite Writers
Mark Nicks/James Klein/David Wright/Bob Dylan/Sufjan Stevens/Colin Meloy/Ben Gibbard
Tools of the Trade
Pencil, Mac, Canon, Keyboard, Sony Video Camera, Piano, Guitar, Charcoal, Sharpie, Paint, Ink
Other Interests
Music, Art, Poetry, Piano, Video Production, Movies, Love
Devious Journal Entry
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I haven't dabbled in the visual arts in a while, and honestly, I'm not that distressed about it. Maybe when (if) I start again, I'll post some of it, but until then, I've grown a tad tired of DeviantArt. Goodbye for now.
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Track Listing, Fall 2007
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I'm nearing the end of my tracks (I know I haven't posted one since December 1st- Finals sucked most of the life out of me), but I'm realizing, as I do these reflections, that I'm not satisfied with the listing. I was recently talking with a friend of mine, Steve Slagg, who has been doing yearly self portrait playlists for the last couple of years. I've decided to make this into a semester self-portrait. However, as it stands, my semester didn't end with the completion of this track list. I found new music, experienced new things, and was shaped differently than this list conveys. So, in short, I've put the reflective writings on hold till th
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Track 12. Magic by Nick Drake
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Track 12. Magic by Nick Drake
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I haven't been writing the last week or so, mainly because I've been busy, but also because this next track is very important to me, and I didn't want to rush it. In fact, I'm a little hesitant even now, to write about it. I want to do it justice, in a way, that I know I will never be able to achieve.
The sighing strings open this song and whisper to you that there is something dreadfully wrong with this world. That soft voice, even more haunting than the strings circulating around it, captures in sparse lyrics the aching reality of being stuck here in this place that can do nothing but take and take an
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Having left facebook, I must satsify myself on deviantART. Stop by some time if you like.
I'm glad you didn't have time to ride the trains recently.
Not me. I want to ride the stink'n trains.
I guess being in a train crash would be something to write about though eh? Nothin' like a little premature grey hair and post-tramatic stress disorder to roughen up the poetic voice, eh? haha.
There were crashes and injuries!
Wah? Explain thyself!
Don't you hate how no one replies to your comment replies? It's like once they say their thing, they're done, and don't expect or know how to reply to an intelligent response.
On an unrelated note, I always feel a little awkward when I don't like one of the popular/celebrated deviantart photographers. But really, I think half or more of the trends on this site are utter crap, and in those popular genres the same lame, overwrought, ridiculous themes get trotted out by every hot photographer. But then I find someone who is guilty of this sort of melodrama, but is not just pretty good at it, but maybe the best. In his gallery every shot is perfectly lit and post processed nicely and have wonderful compositions and razer focus (but that's not actually hard at all considering they seem to all be shot at something ridiculous like f/14). And yet it's all hyper-real and utterly false, emotion for the sake of it and not for any real sense of it. No understanding, just shouting. And while it's novel for about 1 page and a half of gallery space, when the same shots and style get retread for 35 pages it gets old fast. Why would you shoot what is essentially the same exact photograph, interchange model, interchange mood: happy/sad/fearful/angry/violent/suicidal and insert splashy visual effect and/or fluids, the same shot, thousands upon thousands of times over.
I won't name any names, but I found 11 photos I really really liked out of 899 in the gallery. Those 11 you can find in my favorites. And if you find the source, I think the worst excesses are on pages 3&7, but there are plenty on every page.
Tell me what you think. Does it rub you the wrong way as much as me, or am I really the only one who thinks some (much) of it might be rubbish?
On an unrelated note, I always feel a little awkward when I don't like one of the popular/celebrated deviantart photographers. But really, I think half or more of the trends on this site are utter crap, and in those popular genres the same lame, overwrought, ridiculous themes get trotted out by every hot photographer. But then I find someone who is guilty of this sort of melodrama, but is not just pretty good at it, but maybe the best. In his gallery every shot is perfectly lit and post processed nicely and have wonderful compositions and razer focus (but that's not actually hard at all considering they seem to all be shot at something ridiculous like f/14). And yet it's all hyper-real and utterly false, emotion for the sake of it and not for any real sense of it. No understanding, just shouting. And while it's novel for about 1 page and a half of gallery space, when the same shots and style get retread for 35 pages it gets old fast. Why would you shoot what is essentially the same exact photograph, interchange model, interchange mood: happy/sad/fearful/angry/violent/suicidal and insert splashy visual effect and/or fluids, the same shot, thousands upon thousands of times over.
I won't name any names, but I found 11 photos I really really liked out of 899 in the gallery. Those 11 you can find in my favorites. And if you find the source, I think the worst excesses are on pages 3&7, but there are plenty on every page.
Tell me what you think. Does it rub you the wrong way as much as me, or am I really the only one who thinks some (much) of it might be rubbish?