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puppetmaker) wrote2008-02-12 08:44 am
puppetmaker) wrote2008-02-12 08:44 am
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Peter when asked what he does about writer's block, he says nothing since he can't afford writer's block since he writes for a living. He will leave one project and go onto another and work on that and then get back to the original project. When he knows he has a deadline looming, he tends to work hell bent for leather on that project alone. He is a professional about his writing. Right now he is working on several things which he needs to get done (or close to done) by Farpoint.
I have read over the years various books on creativity and awaking the artist within. I have even gotten part of the way through the artist's way. A lot of these book talk about letting your inner child out to play and be creative. I have always wondered why your inner adult isn't creative. What is it about being an adult that makes us less creative? I think they are using the word child the same way that they would use the word freedom. The Freedom to create is a very special and wonderful thing.
When I create a puppet or solve a problem on how to create the puppets in my head, I get a special warm feeling in my soul. It is empowering and there is also a sense of satisfaction that I can figure these problem out. There are still puppets running through my head that I haven't gotten into this world. Some of them will probably always stay in the abstract but others are closer to being made.
Caroline drawing has taken another jump. She doesn't like to copy things but strike out on her own and see what she can come up with. I am going to add a few of her current drawings to the others I have saved. She has been making treasure maps with figures in them that look a little like something out of Invader Zim (which she has never seen) or Gorey's work. Kind of creepy but cool too. I encourage her to draw and we work on other crafts too. I know that the way that the school system is going, I am probably going to be the one to encourage her creative spirit. And I want to do that because I can see that she is a very creative individual and I want her to keep that part of herself intact. I can say honestly that my parents encouraged me to be creative from the time I was small and look at me now.
The freedom to create is a gift and one that needs to be nurtured and played with on a regular basis. It is something I hope I never lose. And it is something I hope that Caroline will have hours of fun with.
Now I am off to be creative with fur, fabric and foam.
I am grateful for all the encouragement I got from my parents to be a creative person.
I have read over the years various books on creativity and awaking the artist within. I have even gotten part of the way through the artist's way. A lot of these book talk about letting your inner child out to play and be creative. I have always wondered why your inner adult isn't creative. What is it about being an adult that makes us less creative? I think they are using the word child the same way that they would use the word freedom. The Freedom to create is a very special and wonderful thing.
When I create a puppet or solve a problem on how to create the puppets in my head, I get a special warm feeling in my soul. It is empowering and there is also a sense of satisfaction that I can figure these problem out. There are still puppets running through my head that I haven't gotten into this world. Some of them will probably always stay in the abstract but others are closer to being made.
Caroline drawing has taken another jump. She doesn't like to copy things but strike out on her own and see what she can come up with. I am going to add a few of her current drawings to the others I have saved. She has been making treasure maps with figures in them that look a little like something out of Invader Zim (which she has never seen) or Gorey's work. Kind of creepy but cool too. I encourage her to draw and we work on other crafts too. I know that the way that the school system is going, I am probably going to be the one to encourage her creative spirit. And I want to do that because I can see that she is a very creative individual and I want her to keep that part of herself intact. I can say honestly that my parents encouraged me to be creative from the time I was small and look at me now.
The freedom to create is a gift and one that needs to be nurtured and played with on a regular basis. It is something I hope I never lose. And it is something I hope that Caroline will have hours of fun with.
Now I am off to be creative with fur, fabric and foam.
I am grateful for all the encouragement I got from my parents to be a creative person.
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Philistines, in my opinion.
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A-men. That's part of why I follow the Erisian tradition, this bit from the Principia, where Eris speaks to the founders of the Discordian movement:
I have come to tell you that you are free. Many ages ago, My consciousness left man, that he might develop himself. I return to find this development approaching completion, but hindered by fear and by misunderstanding.
You have built for yourselves psychic suits of armor, and clad in them, your vision is restricted, your movements are clumsy and painful, your skin is bruised, and your spirit is broiled in the sun.
I am chaos. I am the substance from which your artists and scientists build rhythms. I am the spirit with which your children and clowns laugh in happy anarchy. I am chaos. I am alive, and I tell you that you are free.
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Like the Wikipedia article there says, Discordianism a "Ha-ha, only serious (http://www.science.uva.nl/~mes/jarg311/h/hahaonlyserious.html)" religion founded sometime around 1959, and was one of the inspirations to Robert Anton Wilson for the Illuminatus! books. The basic tenant is that chaos is, in fact, not inherently good or evil, it just is, and is also the basic state of the universe. It's people that decided that chaos and apparent disorder are "bad" and that the "natural order" is, well, order. Life is beautiful and terrible and weirder than most people want to believe, or can imagine. I mean, we have octopuses with teeth (http://tolweb.org/tree/ToLimages/PromachSpCOral.jpg) now (No, that is not a photoshop. This (http://jacksonvilleconfidential.blogspot.com/2007/10/octopus-with-people-teeth.html) is a photoshop).
The Principia is available free online, and can be bought from several publishers, as it is a copyleft (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft) book. Discordians are very, very big on the concept of copyleft, and letting everyone play in Eris' sandbox.
Some people take Discordianism as a fun, as a joke or religious parody, and that's cool. A lot of people take Discordianism very seriously. In my opinion they don't really get it and I think the Goddess loves messing with their heads just as much as she does those who have no sense of humor. Both extremes deserve it.
There are a lot of great ideas in the Principia, and I encourage you in its study. I also have a post here (http://sneezythesquid.livejournal.com/2007/04/01/) where I link to a lot of what I feel are important or fun Discordian bits, and encourage you to give them all a look as well. Maybe even reading them first before swan diving right into the Principia. Either way, I hope you enjoy reading about the Goddess and the Movement.
Fnord (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fnord).
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This is the key. A lot of people think adulthood precludes playing. Creativity has a strong aspect of play, so they think only children, or adults who have accessed their 'inner child', can be creative. They're wrong, of course.
Lost creativity?
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