Thursday, October 23, 2008
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Frozen Cheesecake
I have been trying to come up with ways to look at my "everyday" differently. It is actually fun to try and see events and normal things in a different light, and just mix it up a little!
The last couple days, my boyfriend and I have both been pretty sick sneezing, coughing and so on. We decided to take it really easy, and he did this little project with me!
Just like in kindergarten, we had Opposite Day, where we would try to react the complete opposite way of what we normally would. It makes every situation completely different than what it would have been otherwise....
My Example:
I went to work at Claim Jumper yesterday, and they told me that my shift had been cut. Normally I would have been pissed that I had gotten ready in my uniform and drove all the way there... but I resisted my complaining, and said "Thank You" to my boss with a huge smile! I then called my boyfriend on my drive home to tell him how happy I was that I wasn't going to make any money that day! We ended up having the funnest night together. We walked the dogs without their leashes. Earlier that day, instead of putting the cheesecake we bought in the fridge, we decided to freeze it instead. When I got home we sat together on the floor instead of the couch, eating frozen cheesecake, watching a Spanish soap opera on TV (which we totally didn't understand) instead of the normal Sports Center that is always on!
It was a day that would have never happened if I would of had to work! I urge you to try something like this..... mix up your everyday... it's actually quite moving!
:)
The last couple days, my boyfriend and I have both been pretty sick sneezing, coughing and so on. We decided to take it really easy, and he did this little project with me!
Just like in kindergarten, we had Opposite Day, where we would try to react the complete opposite way of what we normally would. It makes every situation completely different than what it would have been otherwise....
My Example:
I went to work at Claim Jumper yesterday, and they told me that my shift had been cut. Normally I would have been pissed that I had gotten ready in my uniform and drove all the way there... but I resisted my complaining, and said "Thank You" to my boss with a huge smile! I then called my boyfriend on my drive home to tell him how happy I was that I wasn't going to make any money that day! We ended up having the funnest night together. We walked the dogs without their leashes. Earlier that day, instead of putting the cheesecake we bought in the fridge, we decided to freeze it instead. When I got home we sat together on the floor instead of the couch, eating frozen cheesecake, watching a Spanish soap opera on TV (which we totally didn't understand) instead of the normal Sports Center that is always on!
It was a day that would have never happened if I would of had to work! I urge you to try something like this..... mix up your everyday... it's actually quite moving!
:)
Monday, October 20, 2008
Un Chien.. WHAT???!
I was SOOOOO taken back when I saw this film called Un Chien Andalou. I don't understand what was going on! I tried to have an open mind, but I think I missed the underlying meaning or something... Maybe I would have been able to look harder for one, but after I watched an eye ball be sliced open by a razor, completely out of the blue, I was too nauseated to really even concentrate! (See picture above!)
I thought back to a reading we read, ( I believe it was in the Manifesto of Surrealism) where it talked about how being "mad" or "crazy" really wasn't a bad thing, because you weren't limited within your imagination and your own creativity. I can't help but to think that the creator of this film was just that.... MAD! He did not limit himself at all, letting this film go here and there.. and all over the place! I don't think I personally would be able to be that abstract and make something so respected and known, like this film. I do NOT want to ever watch it again, but I am going to do some research on the film itself to try and understand what I was looking at and perhaps what I was supposed to take away from it.......
Everyday Speech
I wanted to re-read a section from The Everyday book we have been going over in class. I wanted to look deeper into the Everyday Speech by Maurice Blanchot. The title itself was what intrigued me in the first place. The Everyday: What is Most Difficult to Discover.
Without seeing a question mark, I already assumed it was talking about what is the most difficult part of the everyday. It doesn't ask this as a question. It is simply stated. The conclusion starts with "Is not the everyday, then, a utopia, the myth if an existence bereft of myth? We no more have access to the everyday than do we touch this moment of history that could, historically, represent the end of history."
Take a moment to let that stew in your brain....
I had to take.. well... 2 weeks and I am now coming back to it!
Reading this again, automatically I say we DO have access to each of our everyday's! I have much control over my day to day life. I can "touch" today, and make a mark on each day, depending on what i do and by doing what I WANT to do. I have very much access to each of my days, and I have a say in what happens in each of them. A lot of the times, my everyday is not a "utopia" in any sense of the word either.... I do not agree at all with the above quote.
I sat some more, and I realized that I am looking at the idea of "the everyday" in a very basic way. For example I am only looking at the surface level things that I actually have control over. I have no say in that today will go by hour by hour, minute by minute and second by second. That is a fact! I have no say over that. Nor do I have a say in whether or not today is a significant day to anyone else. Today will be only that. Today. Today could be the first day. Today could be the last day. I can't "touch" or mess with that. Today will go by, and it will be looked back upon as a piece of history. It will be part in making up MY history, and EVERYONES history! That is huge!
Without seeing a question mark, I already assumed it was talking about what is the most difficult part of the everyday. It doesn't ask this as a question. It is simply stated. The conclusion starts with "Is not the everyday, then, a utopia, the myth if an existence bereft of myth? We no more have access to the everyday than do we touch this moment of history that could, historically, represent the end of history."
Take a moment to let that stew in your brain....
I had to take.. well... 2 weeks and I am now coming back to it!
Reading this again, automatically I say we DO have access to each of our everyday's! I have much control over my day to day life. I can "touch" today, and make a mark on each day, depending on what i do and by doing what I WANT to do. I have very much access to each of my days, and I have a say in what happens in each of them. A lot of the times, my everyday is not a "utopia" in any sense of the word either.... I do not agree at all with the above quote.
I sat some more, and I realized that I am looking at the idea of "the everyday" in a very basic way. For example I am only looking at the surface level things that I actually have control over. I have no say in that today will go by hour by hour, minute by minute and second by second. That is a fact! I have no say over that. Nor do I have a say in whether or not today is a significant day to anyone else. Today will be only that. Today. Today could be the first day. Today could be the last day. I can't "touch" or mess with that. Today will go by, and it will be looked back upon as a piece of history. It will be part in making up MY history, and EVERYONES history! That is huge!
I'm learning so far in this class to let my mind wander a bit, and not look at things in the most common way, but try to understand ideas and thoughts in a somewhat deeper and heavier way. That is a quality in people that I have always admired, and I too can be like that is some respect!
The End! (or beginning...)
Sunday, October 12, 2008
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I interpreted the photos in my slide show below as if they were snapshots from a dream. I used Dream Moods Dictionary as inspiration in the explanations! Enjoy!
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
My Opposite Accident
I had a sudden urge to go buy Dance Dance Revolution to play on my Wii a few hours ago. :)
This seemingly uneventful journey to WalMart turned into a could-have-been-pretty bad accident..
It was dark. I walked through the parking lot making my way towards the cross walk. I looked both ways and waited for a couple cars to pass before I crossed. I watched the last one pass as I started to walk, then turned my head the other way making sure another wasn't coming, and I kept looking that way as I started to jog across....... Not realizing that the car that had been driving by had come to a STOP.... I continued my fast pace a few more steps, trying to hurry and I RAN FACE FIRST, RIGHT INTO THE VAN!
As if a trip to WalMart isn't painful enough.. the left side of my face, my shoulder and my pride are all a wee bit sore... I am sooooo embarassed!
I did a lot less damage to the van, than the damage the van could have done to me!
Here's a look-a-like of the guilty party..... haha...
This seemingly uneventful journey to WalMart turned into a could-have-been-pretty bad accident..
It was dark. I walked through the parking lot making my way towards the cross walk. I looked both ways and waited for a couple cars to pass before I crossed. I watched the last one pass as I started to walk, then turned my head the other way making sure another wasn't coming, and I kept looking that way as I started to jog across....... Not realizing that the car that had been driving by had come to a STOP.... I continued my fast pace a few more steps, trying to hurry and I RAN FACE FIRST, RIGHT INTO THE VAN!
As if a trip to WalMart isn't painful enough.. the left side of my face, my shoulder and my pride are all a wee bit sore... I am sooooo embarassed!
I did a lot less damage to the van, than the damage the van could have done to me!
Here's a look-a-like of the guilty party..... haha...
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