In a world where we don't want to take the time to think, I sometimes wonder if we have forgotten to appreciate the story. We want everything spelled out to us, "just tell us what you are trying to say". The thing about this is, that sometimes art just wants you to make up your own story. Be it music, photography, paintings or other visual and audible forms. Sometimes art just wants you to stop being so lazy and figure out what you think it is. It's personal for both the creator and the consumer.
Damn Fugly you getting all philosophical and shit, you so deep
Well Fictional Reader, I'm just trying to find a way to express part of my motivation of focusing on music these days. I'm tired of talking, I'm tired of putting words to things. I want to create things that I can put out into the world and let others figure out how they should feel. You know you don't always need words to tell a story.
For instance Fictional Reader when you see this photo what story do you think it is telling?
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So you see there's that tiger he's looking at the woman like, "aww yeah I just ate your boyfriend and he was good. You should of fed me more, and remember this hoe cause you next". And the woman is all like "I can't even look at you right now".
{facepalm} Why are you like this?
Like Wut
Nevermind. You want to know what I think when I see this photo?
Not really but I'm sure you gonna tell me anyway
I look at this woman and think the tiger is actually a visual representation of her strength. She has a look on her face, that tells me she is not to be messed with. She has a past, that has taken here to this place of solitude and has found her strength and from this point forward will take what is hers.
Damn that's #deep
Did you just meme me?
maybe
Anyway, my point is this you don't need words to tell a story, and even when you do use word it's still left for interpretation.
When I'm working on a new song, I typically don't follow the standar verse, chorus, verse, chorus rinse repeat. As cliche as it might sound I just start telling a story, I want to the music to take you on some kind of journey. I want the listener to be able to go on that journey over and over again and every once in a while find something new in it. I don't want to tell the listener what they should feel. I want them to figure that out for themselves. I don't always succeed in doing this, but I find that the songs I've created that I like the most are those that allow for that to happen.
When you create what is your goal? What is the purpose? Do you have a message, or are you just trying to get something out? I'd be interested in hearing your perspective.
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Thanks for that reblog @magicalmoonlight you so awesome!
random question... I see you have delegated steempower, did a friend make you your account and do the delegation to help it get started? I'm wondering because I'm curious how it works to get people started that way. I did it the regular way but some people may want to get going sooner so I'm curious about how it works..
Oh I'm leasing some delegated power to give me a boost, cause I'm selling my voting power to earn a little extra, while I'm not around. I currently have a bid it to lease some more, but we'll see how that works. You can delegate power to someone to get them started I think you have to do it somehow using steemconnect. Here is some more info on that https://steemit.com/news/@timcliff/new-tool-from-busy-org-create-new-steem-blockchain-accounts-with-steemconnect
I'm sorry I missed the payout for this one, I'll hit you on a newer post but I wanted to say I really like this idea you're talking about.
I recently was watching some video on oral language verses SPELLing - in the English language particularly - and they made some interesting points on earlier written languages and how it was much more visually centered. Symbols were given entire words or certain sounds, not broken down into letters like we do now. I thought it was very interesting.. it made me think about how the left brain over takes conscious processing, and I think this is reflected in society too.
We have broken up the whole and the pieces just don't equal the weight of the connected unit.. We've dumbed down communication to make it quicker, more streamlined, more efficient but you can't take do that to the brain or you end up cutting out empathy, love, appreciation of beauty, art.. all those things are pointless in the left-brain's industrial processing machine. I hope more people will start telling stories again.