Catching up.
Jan. 22nd, 2020 08:58 pmChallenge #10
In your own space, talk About A Creator/Someone Who Inspired You. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I still distinctly remember sitting in the movie theater for Finding Nemo, when Marlin and Dory exit the EAC, and thinking, "I want to do this."
Not 'this' as in 'animate a feature-length movie', but 'this' as in 'craft a moment of such exhilaration and excitement as to move someone out of their head and wholly into the artistic work.'
To feel something in me that sparks me off in such a way as to make me say "I want to do this" - it can come from Pixar movies, songs by Neko Case and Death Cab For Cutie and The National, paintings by Edward Hopper, books by Terry Pratchett and Michael Chabon, and most of all, from people around me. Other fans. People that surprise me. People that make me laugh. Far-reaching acquaintances and close friends. Those who I don't know at all except through their work, and in seeing what they do, have a model for what I want to do as well. Not repeating them: doing something which sets someone else off the way they set me off.
I admit sometimes it's "I don't want to do this" - when I'm dissatisfied, discontent, displeased. Often it's with what fandom's doing right now, focusing too much on this kind of trope or too little on that kind of AU, when people are firm in writing things that interest them but don't interest me. I say 'often' because when that spark of spite comes from something else, like a novel or TV show, what those set off in me take longer to see to fruition. It still comes. Just not as much by volume; because of the way the ideas take hold in me.
It's always a matter of figuring out what I want to put into the world, and surrounding myself with people and art to help me guide my way through the process. People I want to impress. People I want to set off laughing. Whether they know it or not doesn't matter. I've got their work, and I'll use it as best I can to help me figure out what I can put forth next.
In your own space, talk About A Creator/Someone Who Inspired You. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I still distinctly remember sitting in the movie theater for Finding Nemo, when Marlin and Dory exit the EAC, and thinking, "I want to do this."
Not 'this' as in 'animate a feature-length movie', but 'this' as in 'craft a moment of such exhilaration and excitement as to move someone out of their head and wholly into the artistic work.'
To feel something in me that sparks me off in such a way as to make me say "I want to do this" - it can come from Pixar movies, songs by Neko Case and Death Cab For Cutie and The National, paintings by Edward Hopper, books by Terry Pratchett and Michael Chabon, and most of all, from people around me. Other fans. People that surprise me. People that make me laugh. Far-reaching acquaintances and close friends. Those who I don't know at all except through their work, and in seeing what they do, have a model for what I want to do as well. Not repeating them: doing something which sets someone else off the way they set me off.
I admit sometimes it's "I don't want to do this" - when I'm dissatisfied, discontent, displeased. Often it's with what fandom's doing right now, focusing too much on this kind of trope or too little on that kind of AU, when people are firm in writing things that interest them but don't interest me. I say 'often' because when that spark of spite comes from something else, like a novel or TV show, what those set off in me take longer to see to fruition. It still comes. Just not as much by volume; because of the way the ideas take hold in me.
It's always a matter of figuring out what I want to put into the world, and surrounding myself with people and art to help me guide my way through the process. People I want to impress. People I want to set off laughing. Whether they know it or not doesn't matter. I've got their work, and I'll use it as best I can to help me figure out what I can put forth next.
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