Straddling Worlds
I like everything in theory, but very little in practice.
I am currently working towards my BFA.
This is a digital record of my ongoing interests and musings.
I don't presume anyone will find this particularly interesting, yet I'll do it anyway.
I sometimes come off as pretentious/elitist because sometimes I am.
But I'm working on that.
Straddling Worlds
Steven Soderbergh's State Of Cinema Talk | Deadline
ART and BUSINESS
"Maybe I wanted to learn how to think. Writing is a concentrated form of thinking. I don’t know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them. Maybe I wanted to find more rigorous ways of thinking. We’re talking now about the earliest writing I did and about the power of language to counteract the wallow of late adolescence, to define things, define muddled experience in economical ways. Let’s not forget that writing is convenient. It requires the simplest tools. A young writer sees that with words and sentences on a piece of paper that costs less than a penny he can place himself more clearly in the world. Words on a page, that’s all it takes to help him separate himself from the forces around him, streets and people and pressures and feelings. He learns to think about these things, to ride his own sentences into new perceptions. How much of this did I feel at the time? Maybe just an inkling, an instinct. Writing was mainly an unnameable urge, an urge partly propelled by the writers I was reading at the time."
Don DeLilloParis Review - The Art of Fiction No. 135 (via markrichardson)
girl(s) art
The Internet is Eating Me: To A Fishstick Dying Young
"I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contriube joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn’t always know this and am happy I lived long enough to find it out."
Roger Ebert. (via nedhepburn)
hegsonlegs:

now is the time to be idealistic
© Anna Hegarty 2013
blastmastr:

dedicated to mom and dad.

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