Calm Poppy

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

The Colorful Utopia of Cheerful Nonsense
… and other random stuff

Knowing clichés are clichés doesn’t help you escape them.
Sweet Nothings –sweetness rivaled by their nothingness
“Borrowed Solemnity”
Hitting Rock-Bottom as a required event.
Assured Destruction
Eventlessness
Bottomlessness
Then, a Happy Problem
Kitchen-Sink Dramatics
A Healthy Doze of Vulgarity and Pride
Anti-Death
Neutrality is nonexistent – just temporarily unknown
Unneutralized erotic rage
Trembled Certainty
Stupidly Happy… which one, Stupid or Happy?
“non-attachment-to-the-fruits-of-one’s-action”
Minor Life
A System of Mediocre Habit
“florid total mediocrity”
Mediocrity Sucks?
Just so because life sucks because we wish it didn’t…
Therefore…
Embrace Mediocrity
The Mystic of Mediocrity
The irony of Mediocrity –one is misunderstood worse than a genius.
Morally-engaged Slackers??
Self-Approval is Mortifying.
Fuse to Blurrr!!!!
The Seed of Potential Happiness and Sheer Madness….

Friday, August 11, 2006

BLANK PAGE...





I rambled upon the so-called "death of my creativity" the term is melodramatic but it really sucked so much hence the little term. I thought WORK is killing my creative spirit when the bottom line is --it's just my own doing.

[OT: Work is the most-blamed for some sort of unhappiness in one's life. When in reality (for most people) these are just tasks, a means to earn something --money, some achievements, the means that may able you to do other stuff that may lead to happiness or total disaster. It's just work, WORK is not the 'cause of unhappiness and not a means to be happy either (people are just lucky when it leads them to happiness).]

I just don’t like being confronted by a BLANK PAGE. It sucks! It really sucks when I never had to deal with it before or whenever I’m faced with a similar situation, I never had to deal with it for long. I even remembered helping some people deal with the same stuff. I remembered sketching as much as I can without thinking… It starts with things that are not that nice-looking until I like all that I see.

Now, critiques outnumber sketches… sketches are not even completed and that’s the END of it. It’s usually about EXECUTION! I used to care about it afterwards until I come up with ways to do it…It not nice to suck but things suck because we wish it didn’t. Then, I rambled upon my job (which deals with production)… as something that’s killing my imagination. My job is about getting things done, seeing what’s wrong, anticipating limitations of designs… It’s technical and it’s all about what is achievable, in short realistic. (It's something that does not involve creative work at all.) REALITY KILLS CREATIVITY!!!

Oh, I think my little dilemma is a HAPPY PROBLEM. Instead of going for the notion that REALITY KILLS CREATIVITY, maybe I’ll go for CREATIVITY COULD EXPAND REALITY. Yeah right, most people have already thought about it and it took me a long time to see it. I simply don’t want to suck whenever I see a BLANK PAGE.