How do you escape creatively? Poetry, art, music? However you do it, why do you do it. What is it about it? Does it forfill you, does it replenish you, is it an escape, is it a release? What is it to you and why should more people do it? Sell it to us, why do you love it so much?
Lol Dandy, you sound like you're setting homework! I think it's only fair if you're going to ask a question like that that you should answer it yourself first
I can't right now Dok, i am in college and they don't like us to be on forums and stuff! I will when i get home mister. I want to answer it though! Tell you what! I know what i shall do, i shall write it in word and paste it. Then... there won't be any spelling mistakes! I will be my best student .. i shall be checking your grammer... punctuation.. and i will be giving out marks.. yeah. Right.
Hate to be pedantic, but on one thread you actually said: ... so it's kinda hard to keep up with your real intentions. After that though, on another thread (and I assume this is the post you're on about), you said: Now seeing as Sal's a mod in this forum too, it would appear from your comments that you wouldn't be posting here either. Your objection in the main forum was to Sal tidying a thread up, which he's equally capable of doing here, ergo one would assume you'd be boycotting this forum too..... Can't you keep up with your own posts?
well as you kno dandipandy poop i do writing alot...not so much lately....but thats an escape i just write ......i just sit and let my mind go free and onto the page....then i sift thru my thoughts and try to make them accesible to others. i also like to sit wit a guitar and let a tune come from my head...sometimes i give em words....sometimes not....
Yeah, god forbid you should actually talk to Herr Sal or anything so reasonable. LOL, thought threads went off topic all the time and that was fine? Oh, it's very nice of you to say so, but I really can't take all the credit. You don't need my help to look like a stupid twat
See Dandy the power has gone to Joel's head! What's that smell? He'll get rid of this post too You crazy little Spyder (see you soon flower petal my loverly )
The main field of art I'm into, and have been into for the last 6 years or so is music. Writing and playing a song gives me a real adrenalin rush. Before being into music I wrote comics a lot. I don't do that as much now but I'm working on one at the moment. I did design some board games for a time but my ideas were fairly uninnovative. I seem to be able to come up with more original ideas in my approach to creating music. I also have interests in photography (got a digicam now - woo!) and fashion, as I'm interested to making my own clothes a bit now, but don't have a clear idea how to go about it.
I'd say for me it's mainly a release. It's really frustrating having all of these ideas floating in your head and not being able to get them out and into something which is pallatable, material, or palpable. For me it's an escape, to a minor extent because you're escaping to something which is perhaps less artistic than, being on a dull inner city street for example. You are 'going' to create and therefore 'escaping to it'. I see it as 'escaping to' rather than 'from', because 'escaping to' kind of seems like a salvation doesn't it? Or a kind of quasi-religious artistic revelation or something. Whereas 'escaping from' would seem kind of negative, if you ask me. If I escape from something it must bne to go to something better, in this case art.
i'm listening to sigur ros after spending time jumping round in the fountains and pools in the middleof the city centre i felt the water caress my face and close me in, took pictures will be up here soon. i was relaxed and happy when i was in the fountain... people shouting insults but nothing else mattered. i could think straight. now im back and with a thousand thousand thoughts kazooming round my mind i just have to sit and dig the music let it surround me... i feel exactly the same as *you* and this is how i escaped, release.
Think i'll take this opertunity while joel is at RAG, to write my answer to the question! *cracks nuckles* How do you escape creatively? Poetry, art, music? However you do it, why do you do it. What is it about it? Does it forfill you, does it replenish you, is it an escape, is it a release? What is it to you and why should more people do it? Sell it to us, why do you love it so much? My escape from reality has in will always be art, i have always done it. Pin pointing why? Well, my gran was an artist she was always painting and drawing, but i just think i did it first off to pass the time, my parents werent the sort of people that incouraged tv to pass the time so we were incouraged to do other things, draw, paint, play games and have our own fun. In that i think all our imaginations were inspired and stretched and i was always drawing things from my imagination, which my gran was trying to stop me froming doing saying, " you must always draw from reality, not your mind" so she gave me lessons on drawing real things, which bored me but i did it any way and was quite proud of the results, she also incouraged me to study other artists which i did. (There grew my love for Van Gogh) But, you know my realy escape isn't drawing what i can see, but drawing beyond, letting my mind wonder free just letting the pen flow across the page, let the hand lead the way and not the mind. It's like loosing ones self purely in the moment, consious of whats going on around you and just letting go for a while. Its great when i am, stressed about something i can just draw and forget everything. Completely delve into a quiet space and release my mind into nothingness and wholenss. Its so much much, fun i don't think, its a place i don't need to be anything do anything because i never planned anything, never aim for anything and i gain so much from each experience. It also makes time pass at an amazing rate, i litrally feel like i have removed myself from time itself and everything is going on around me and i am just in another place all together. Sounds weird maybe, but its brilliant and it takes me away from everything! Why should people do it more? Well, i think for me its explained. It's a chance to set yourself free from all boundries, open your mind and just let it wonder where ever it wants, unconsiously thinking aboutt things. I often find i have a clearer head and can do things a lot better when i just let myself go for a while! So, i guess you should do it if you feel its going to help you in that way or any way, because art, music, poetry or anything can be your escape and it can help you do it in different ways. This is my escape, this is my freedom and my surreal reality. Whats yours?
>>>>>i just think i did it first off to pass the time, my parents werent the sort of people that incouraged tv to pass the time so we were incouraged to do other things, draw, paint, play games and have our own fun.<<<< I presume that you gradually saw art as a spirituality/mind expanding thing? Beyond a hobby? That's how art (especially music) has been for me. It's a really satisfying thing because it's a great way to sow my artist's seed if you like. I think the mere fact that I'm creating connects me to the universe more fully because that's what the universe is: an infinity of creations (I love making comments like that!) At the moment the two creative things I'm doing are writing songs and writing comics. I'm looking to epand on that a bit though to designing and making my own clothes and maybe some crockery. I'd like to have a full set of psychedelic plates and mugs! I'll say again that I don't think I could be happy at all if art was non-existent. It colours the universe as far as I'm concerned and without it there is VOID.
I used to do a lot of stuff creatively but probably my real escape is through dance. Not proper trained dance, but just jumping around to music you love! I've always loved dancing and as most people, you can't help by react even just a little bit when you hear music. I don't do it very often but if I'm at a gig or summink I will and I prefer dancing alone. It's probably the one true act (apart from sex ) in which I can totally lose myself, it makes me feel happy and I let go of anything mundane that's in my mind. I love it. I also feel I want to dance more at this time of year which is strange........ I don't really know how to answer that. Not everyone is into dancing, it's an incredibly self-conscious thing. Yet, it's always been used by our ancestors to tap into different states of mind, for celebration and self-expression. For me, it's very freeing. Once I get over the self-conscious phase I don't give a fuck what I look like and who's watching. It makes me feel euphoric. I would actually go so far as to say it's on a level with Ecstasy (pills) in terms of love rushes! It's also a good release physically too. A great way (apart from sex - again) to connect with your own body, to be here in the now. I want to dance now
I went dancing on saturday also, its so much fun and just always have energy to dance! I just went mad on the dance floor i don't think even joel could keep up sometimes ... mwahaha.... dancing is very releasing
