Sunday, November 7, 2010

Ranting

I do a lot of ranting on this blog. I know it is true, I like to rant. I believe very strongly the things that I hold dear. These things are not of God, of spirituality, of morality, or even of ethics. Though I do have opinions on all of those things, and ideas that guide me through life, the things that I hold most dear, the things that really inform my decisions when I wake to when I sleep are the things I rant about. The Tao of Nike, and the now named Tao of Skill (which will be renamed when I can take the time to think of a new one) and many others. These belief sets govern my thinking on inspiration, creation, and the spreading of ideas, which is what I believe will in the end save this human race. It will not be belief in God, or in forced beyond our control, or even our treatment of each other. It will be our ability to create original ideas, spread them effectively, and to not merely slide by, but to strive to use what you have learned to create something new.
I have ranted so much about this, I could most likely fill a book...
I had this thought last week when I was yelling like crazy with Kyle about Ignition and how much of what they do is the essence of everything I am on a crusade against.

So, you all know the plan when I get out of college
a) join cirque
b) continue Κirkos
those are mutually exclusive, I want to add a third option that is not, and might happen simultaneously (especially if I am still doing Kirkos, this is likely to happen). I am going to write that book. I have been trying to spread my ideas about circus and performance purism for years, and I have touched many minds. But I am going to write a piece. It will be extended, it will have chapters, it will have internal flow. It will not be published (if it was, that would be cool). It will be free, and it will be online (unless by some miracle someone publishes it) and I want every performer who is up and coming and trying to figure out his or her personal style to read it. I am tired of people thinking that performance is just about doing what others do but better, and just about showing the crowd something they cant or wont do. It is about so much more than that, it is about the sharing of ideas, and the ability to show something new. This is where my bias against repeating things comes from. I never want to show an audience something they have seen unless there is a very good reason for it (restate a certain point in a plotline to remind them of it, for example).
This is a big project, and I am not even considering undertaking it until I am out of school, don't worry.
The way I see it, I have always done well with writing, have always gotten decent marks on my history papers, but very good marks on my argumentative and creative works. This seems right up that alley. I have explored visual art in my many years at TMA and through the art I make with my computer to this day. I have explored audio art through the violin and drums and the music I make with my computer to this day. I have explored the physical arts through circus and dance that I continue to explore up to now. I have always ignored the textual arts, because I have always had a teacher giving me an assignment. I write because I want to write, and that is why I write this blog. I have never had a place to channel it into as I have with the visual, audio, and performance/physical arts. Well folks, I have found the place to channel it into. Meet Connor Fenix Cobbledick, the guy who is going to write a book about the principles of artistic purism, based on the ideals that a career in the arts has taught him.
Yeah, mom - you thought you were raising a little math matician or chemist or marine biologist with arts hobbies- but look where I turned out: the arts kid who does math and science as a hobby. Just goes to show ya, you can lead a horse to water...

Peace out folks, this is the biggest goal I have ever set for myself (most recent: learn the Thriller dance, and then learn how to do it on roller skates - I still plan on doing that one) and it will take years to complete. But hey, what's life without a never-ending challenge to do something new for yourself and for the world (yeah, that's one of the principles of artistic purism).
BEDTIME! After I finish typing up this linguistics homework on Kiksht, the most insane language every (each letter in the word gives you a part of the meaning... and some mean different things depending on where they are... and sometimes, the part that means something is two letters - you never know!)
Blurp, schleeboop, and kerplunk
Grr, ARRGGHH
DESTROY MATH 315! Oh yeah, and for those of you who missed it, I got a D on my midterm - this would be the time to officially panic... and become single, and injure your shoulder... What a great week this has been.

Ooh, and keep posted for pictured from strowler nights (others that didn't appear in the Vlog). There were at least three photographers there who said that they would have the pics uploaded within two weeks

Monday, November 1, 2010

Vlog 2: Verybusy

Part 1
Part 2

It's pretty self explanatory, and it even gives a preview of what is yet to come!

Edit: Part 1 seems to work fine, but youtube seems to think it knows soundsync better than I do, but since it does not, I have been forced to upload the part 2 elsewhere! BUT WAIT! As it turns out, vimeo is superior to youtube, because the videos are restricted by size, not by length, so I don't have to split it up!
And I will post an edit #2 when that video goes live

Edit #2:
Verybusy
TADA!
Vimeo is where I will be posting from now on, so that I do not have to split them up!