After todays crit I found my self confused, uncertain, and even dumb. Not dumb as in ignorant but dumb as in unable to articulate thoughts properly. During lunch I found myself getting into discussions with friends who work in different branches of knowledge. I am ignorant, Really Arrogant. I assume that concept is the creation of writers, I assume that only people who work with writing have to deal with these conceptual ideals that writers come up with. What I have failed to bridge is that writers don't write for the sake of writing. They write to have a voice.
This voice is not a clinical tool to dissect, inspect, detect, categorize, label and box. This tool that I have assumed as just a tool, the voice, is not a tool. Humans decided that bringing together abstract thoughts through an articulated manner unique to an individual is not really so cut and dry. We say writers have a voice because they are so desperate to speak to the next generations. This goes back to wanting to see our footprint on the moon. We want to elevate ourselves to forms of demigods. Thats why that term exists.
Demi-gods, I probably need to do more research but here goes my take on this tool. Demi-gods are humans that hope to elevate themselfs to the stature of gods. Thinks Hercules or Jason Bourn. These two heros did not chose to embark on their personal journeys. They were put into a greater narrative that is informed on the actions of these idealized characters. They all work from reality to try and achieve superhuman acts. With Hercules it's killing a giant and then being able to give atlas a break for a few hundred years. With Bourn It's jumping from a six story rooftop to another building, busting through a window on the fourth floor but still making it without dying. Bourne is just as super human as Hercules. Society just demands more of a human justification for Bourn's actions, as tastes change through times.
These long winded observations are coming to a conclusion my dear reader I promise.
In conclusion this post began with the song Nightmare by Tyler the Creator. Then the song changed to Planet Caravan, by Black Sabeth. The final summation paragraph was written durring When I'm With You by best coast.
This post served to map the way I understand abstract thoughts through rhythm and an audible diction to pull inspiration and ultimately understand my own process for making concepts. I don't know why it's important I just know it is, and keeping this inside my head is not going to encourage anyone to speak critically about my process. Video to me is a visual map of Synesthesia, although I've never been diagnosed with a disorder this concept brings an amazing amount of order to my personal film making process.
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