BLOGAZOOMA
Saturday January 12th 2008, 7:30 pmGALLERY OF ERRORS…
We have noticed awhile back that we seem to be having problems of a technical nature with the gallery viewing and are working to rework that area of the site. So please bear with us as we remove bugs. Which will be nice so I can add lots of new images that are ready to be put into cyberspace for your viewing pleasure.
MANIFESTATION…
Recently I have been pondering the question of what makes us who we are and how we are perceived by those around us. In some ways our physical persona that is recognizable by others exists because of our desires to be recognized in a certain way. This can shape our appearances and we evolve physically to meet the demands of our imaginations. I believe we are perceived by others in ways we have subconsciously chosen for ourselves and we live out those roles as imagined. Some would say that we are perceived differently than we view ourselves, and to some extent that is true. But we always come back to what we believe ourselves to be and continue to live our lives with our self perceptions. Therefore the choices we make in life lead further toward what we imagine ourselves to be. Manifesting ego and personality. For some this happens early on and for others they constantly morph themselves as changlings. Refusing to be truly known by others. Sort of continuously redefining and therefore they take on changing physical attributes. This idea of self manifestation can be put to control over our environments, shaping our realities in little increments over time to make our lives into what we want them to be. In actuality we choose our fates, even if we don’t want to admit that. Everything we see ourselves being influences where we end up and how our lives are affected. Belief makes reality. But you have to truly believe in something for that something to come into being. If it is half hearted then it doesn’t come to pass. We define ourselves through manifestation of our soul’s desire, not by outside circumstances.
CYBER GHOSTS…
Just finished reading Ghost in the Shell: Man Machine Interface by Shirow Masanume published in america by darkhorse. An extremely challenging read full of very dense futuristic computer navigational references that can be a bit overwhelming. Entire battle sequences take place within the electric digital realm of cyber-reality. I feel if you can past all of that and allow yourself to be immersed in that form of technical thinking, the ending will become that much more satisfying. Basically the ending reveals a new form of combined life, a kind of artificial intelligence. But what I find most interesting is this new life is shown to exist in the cyber-realm, on another plane of existence if you will and is handled in such a way to be more on the metaphysical side. Cascading colors that make you feel things rather explain them. As if you would be looking into creation itself. A very interesting perspective for a story that primarily relies on pages and pages of dense technical jargon and configurations. By having to absorb such a dense and antiseptic form storytelling makes a highly charged and revelatory awakening in the final segment. It sort makes me think that author is saying that no matter how far technology moves in the future that creation is more wonderous and spiritual and metaphysical than we would like to admit. That no matter how separated man gets from unseen energies we will inevitably come back around to the metaphysical no matter how far technology takes us. Another interesting thing to note about the art is how much the author can’t help but focus on the human form, sometimes in titillating ways. Even as characters move through digital realities they are portrayed as nude human forms. This could be taken as just a story telling device, surely, but also it comments on the fact that we will always have to be physical creatures if we are to understand our world and our role in it. So at the end, this new form of life being introduced is shown as light in the eyes of one of main characters, revealing that creation is truly a metaphysical event and not just purely scientific and biologic. This entire series has been nothing really but a question of what makes us what we are. Our spirits and souls exist outside the context of our bodies but need the physical form to self manifest and affect our surroundings and to be known by others, to find some sort of fulfillment to make ourselves into something more. A lot of people have gotten caught up in the computer and technical aspects of the Shirow’s story about the future of mankind but I think they have missed a crucial point being made about humanity and our uniqueness and what is creation exactly.
MUSIQUE (you should hear)…
NFD — dead pool rising
SIOUXSIE– mantaray
FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM / NEFILIM — self made collections of rarities and mixes
CHRISREEDUNIT — minimal animal
RILO KILEY — under the blacklight
!!! (aka CHK CHK CHK) — myth takes
PERRY FARREL’S SATELITE PARTY — ultra payloaded
VNV NATION — judgement
TEGAN AND SARA — the con
SEAGULL SCREAMING KISS HER KISS HER — no! no! no!
FOREIGNER (yeah i know, cheese)– self titled debut
THE HIVES — the black and white album
PINK FLOYD — wish you were here
SUITE 666 — pretty corpse
BANG SUGAR BANG — thwak thwak go crazy!
NEW YORK DOLLS — one day it will please us to remember even this
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hey there heather
i agree with that view as well. however it still seems to me that no matter how the perceivers view our own self it does not alter the way one perceives themselves and ultimately that self perception is what will most impact one’s own life in the long term. to be truly genuine and honest about one’s desires will shape one’s reality no matter what else intervene’s. intervention in one’s life is always temporary to the soul’s true desires that will always become manifest as long as we listen to who we really are inside. that is not to say that we don’t fool ourselves into false pretenses of who we are meant to be, or rather who we deeply desire to be. we can and do derail ourselves resulting in unhappiness. that unhappiness is a symptom of our true desires needing to find release into the physical reality of our daily lives when one has seduced themselves into falsehoods of their true personality. i hope that makes sense.
i should also add that if one stays true to one’s self honestly that outside perceptions will inevitably be made irrelevant and be forced away.
Comment by jwh3 01.13.08 @ 2:57 amI have to admit I haven’t read any Crowley but his idea, as I understand it, of “True Will” leaves me both frightened and at ease at the same time. I just turned 20 and I like to think im a somewhat decent artist with hopes of doing something in comics/storytelling and im getting to the point where im obliged (fucking right) to settle on an occupation and I’m not sure if my intent is genuine or if I’m, as you say, “derailed.” self deception or artistic rut, its something i’ve been pondering as of late and its funny seeing it mentioned.
P.S. – Just finished Promethea (Im late!) after sitting on the first 3 volumes close to a year now and would like to say thanks for that lovely, whimsical experience. Easily one of my favorite books now.
Comment by Austin 01.14.08 @ 11:37 pmhey there austin
good luck in all your artistic endeavors. i suggest that you take a moment of quiet time for an hour or so to reflect on your thoughts. doing this exercise may help you come to some conclusions in terms of your creative drive and re-enforce those artistic energies into positive thoughts on the subject for yourself. glad you were to find some merit in promethea. did you read the entire series? or just the first 3 volumes? the final 2 volumes can really expand thoughts on creativity and it’s relation to our daily lives in terms of how creativity helps shape our individual realities. it’s all told through the events of the story itself, in the way the story happens and the characters influence on the outcome.
Yea I defintely think some self reflection is in order. I did read the entire series. I waited till I had all of them before I could completely submerge myself, uninterrupted. Alan, yourself and the entire creative team did a wonderful job and it really is something I hold very dear to me now, something and personal im not quite sure I could or would I feel comfortable in describing completely through a comment section. All in all, it really did humble me on how very much reality is fouded upon ideas and the imagination and the mystery and beauty in “something from nothing.” Thank you again for that.
Comment by Austin 01.15.08 @ 4:52 pmLeave a Comment
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Re: Manifestation
Well put. Although I must say I also believe the way a person is perceived is also based on what the perceiver wishes to see, sometimes ignoring the pieces of a person that they do not understand or do not want to accept.
Comment by heather 01.12.08 @ 9:55 pm