this entry is intended to provoke comments

[autumn_augury]

It's always humbling everytime you discover something that someone else has done that you've been wanting to do, or that someone else has already thought of something that you've thought of

Comments

[hobbledehoy]

(i liked the first title better. and i like you.)

[autumn_augury]

now i can have the best of both worlds. i feel like, when i write stuff like this, there is an imaginary voice picking apart everything i say, and so i feel like i have to include a disclaimer just to let people know that it's not like i'm publishing edited content here.

how are things in your new place?

[hobbledehoy]

the world is quiet here. i should be sleeping. this is not a secret message. i hope you have fun with the cubbie today.

[eva_bellatrix]

I saw that movie about 8 years ago at summer camp. I mostly remember the chanting and escalators and like a waterfall or forest or canyon or something.

I think art and meaning are at odds with one another. Having been an art student, I can tell you for a fact that most art is made because the artist thought the result would be 'pretty cool.' Only when we had to discuss our pieces in front of the class did they magically have meaning all of a sudden.

[autumn_augury]

i agree... i think art is typically made "to be experienced", and i don't think even this movie would be an exception... but unlike most other art, this movie literally spells out its meaning at the end. this just got me thinking about all the varying degrees to which artists inject meaning into their art, this being a more extreme example, with most examples falling in the realm of "i wanted to do this cool thing, and i see how it could mean such and such, but mostly i wanted to do this cool thing"

it's been weird being exposed to so much of evergreen's art, because greeners' art is "activist art", born out of a fierce desire for social/environmental change, its meaning thus thinly veiled.