just a few thoughts. Firstly, please oh please keep spreading the word. Secondly, my hope is that ideas become the focus of this blog page. For example, Steph, tell us your intentions, what is the project you are working on. The writing is the writing and we all need our share of criticism, but my hopes are that minds meet and steer project ideas in the right direction, THEN we can let out our talents, whatever those may be. I am just scared that we are going to have pages upon pages of drafts filing the blog. Hopefully, if someone likes the idea they can contact you and work on it with you.
Right now I am working on a "memory project." I am writing a memoir essentially of a few weeks that I spent at home last September. My hope is that every year for the next 5 years I will write the same story, without looking at what I have written. I want to see what memories change, stay the same, disappear or come out of the blue. Compiling pieces for the final product is where I want some help. Sarah has read some of it, and she said, "that's not how I remember that day." So there is a possibility of going in a different direction, I suppose. I need people's thoughts, even if those thoughts include, "that's a stupid idea!!!"
Another idea that I have requires more people, more talents and more mediums. But I would love to have say a theme once a month. "Bums" or "Birds" or "Growing Old" I don't know. Then who ever wanted to participate could submit their project in what ever medium they feel most comfortable with. Some months may be duds, but some months might spark brilliant compilations. The end result, though, should always be a multi media collage of some basic theme. Those of us with the talents to do so, could compile and edit how they saw fit.
Anyway, I just thought I would pass my thoughts on since I still have not posted any of my own ideas. Just know that the hope is to inspire and motivate each other so that we don't sit around ten years from now going, "I was going to write a book once." Again please invite your friends, musicians, sculptors, writers, anything creatively expressive.
Keep thinking!!!!!!
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Splatter: a work in progress. I'm lovin it.
For my intentions of the piece I posted please see the comments section of that story. But, to summarize, basically I am just trying to write down the stories I hear all the time from my clients. Someday, after I have built up a collection of "snapshots," hopefully a common thread will appear and it will be marketable. For now, I just need to get the stuff out of my head and off my shoulders so that I can sleep. Plus it's nice to feel artistically productive for the first time in a few years.
Willie, I think your "memory project" is very interesting. Breaking down memory is something I think about alot. What we remember vs. what actually happened. The methods our brain use to block certain events, or highlight others. Chemical reactions, the effects of alcohol... Recording a moment(s) in time over a period of years will certainly shed some light on the way your memory works. It will be interesting to see how the stories vary compared to what was going on in your life when you wrote them. Very cool. As an old professor told us, again and again, memory is a muscle, and it must be exercised. We can improve our memory if we practice. (Like sit for 15-20 minutes a day and write down a conversation you had that day, as verbatim as possible. Over time, you will get better at remembering such things.)
And I think your idea of themes could certainly move this "hippie art community" in a more concrete direction. I dig. But yes, we do need more people, talents and mediums.
Okay, great. That's all I got for now.
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