Don't think me too flighty, but I started another painting this evening. At work I'd been doodling these little floating blobby wisps that I call "ghosts", and kept imagining them as little cotton-candy-colored things bobbing around in a soupy brown fog. So I decided I had to see what they'd look like on canvas.
The funny thing is, as I was doing the underpainting, I was thinking "This isn't really turning out how I envisioned it." And I started to wonder if I should try to exert more control over it to bring it in line . . . but the more I thought about what I should do, the more I realized that I didn't *really* have that clear a vision of what it should look like in the first place. So I decided to go with the flow of what I was painting and it's turning out ok so far. I think the moral is that you can't really have a clear idea of what a piece of artwork will be like until you've worked on it for a while. Which is not news, I guess. Oh well, I'm just free associatin' . . . I hope y'all won't give me the business about my half-thought-out art notions.
Rod
P.S. listening to the Magnetic Fields, "The Wayward Bus" . . . it always blows my mind, he's never since recorded anything like it! (Possible exception: The song "I Shatter" from 69 Love Songs)
The funny thing is, as I was doing the underpainting, I was thinking "This isn't really turning out how I envisioned it." And I started to wonder if I should try to exert more control over it to bring it in line . . . but the more I thought about what I should do, the more I realized that I didn't *really* have that clear a vision of what it should look like in the first place. So I decided to go with the flow of what I was painting and it's turning out ok so far. I think the moral is that you can't really have a clear idea of what a piece of artwork will be like until you've worked on it for a while. Which is not news, I guess. Oh well, I'm just free associatin' . . . I hope y'all won't give me the business about my half-thought-out art notions.
Rod
P.S. listening to the Magnetic Fields, "The Wayward Bus" . . . it always blows my mind, he's never since recorded anything like it! (Possible exception: The song "I Shatter" from 69 Love Songs)
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there's actually a place online where you can play the old infocom games too: http://infocom.elsewhere.org
and people are still writing these things, although they are called "Interactive Fiction" now. last year i went looking to see if anybody had written anything with "adult" content. what i found was hilarious and fascinating. an "adult" text adventure totally defeats the purpose, of course, because if you're trying to get off, why would you want to play a game where you have to go looking for objects, solve puzzles, etc. tee hee hee!!
You guys are even bigger nurds than me! Except for the Stephen Merritt part. That's cool.