babble
Thursday, August 14, 2003
Burning from the inside:
There is something about being extraordinarily busy at work and having a lot of shit going on in your personal life that will literally suck the creative energy right out of you. It is like some giant entity has walked up to me and inserted a giant crazy straw into the creative center of my brain and just sucked it all out, kind of like that one scene in Starship Troopers, except I didn't die or get to fuck Denise Richards.
In order to force myself to think creatively and start making some goddamned art already, I am going to start building out a darkroom in my house this weekend. I really want to start doing my own prints, and I also figure that being in a closed room with a bunch of toxic chemicals will help to make me even more creative. It might make me more insane, too, but you know, I'm just suffering for my art, man.
I'm also planning out my trip to Ireland, England, and Scotland in the fall. My ultimate goal is to look up a couple of old friends that I have over there on the Emerald Isle and get them to let me stay with them, for two reasons: 1) I like doing things the locals do, not what the tourists do, and 2) it's way cheaper than staying at a hotel. England and Scotland are already covered because I'm staying with my friend Emma and she has promised to cart me around and show me some really kickass stuff and be patient while I take thousands of photos of everything, God bless her. I am really looking forward to this trip, because the last time I was in England and Ireland it was for business, and I didn't really get to see anything except parts of London and most of Dublin. I want to go wander the countryside and hang out with wizened old Gaelic-speakers and drink peated whisky and climb around ancient castles and stand in the middle of a misty expanse of green moss and take photos of all of it so I can remember it forever.
In the meantime, I'll try and get right on that darkroom stuff so the chemicals can start getting to my brain and making me all goofy. Hilarity will ensue, I'm sure of it.
babbled by Kat @ 10:50:00 AM |
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