Recently someone posed a "what if" question to me regarding "me" as a different "me". The question seems to come up every now and then with just about anyone I talk to. At first I thought it was pointless to speculate but then I began to think about the question itself and what purpose it could possibly serve (in others words I was bored) to be asked over and over again with no real answer. I would suppose it is to keep us aware of where we are and where we still can go. By looking at the past situations, and the choices we have made we can see what is within our control and out of our control. Those that are out of our control are just that, and because of that we can only look at how they shaped us (or how we let them shape us). The difference is those types of things hopefully allow us to consider how to respond under situations that are out of our control; what we should draw from the latter (I suppose) is to consider our actions, motives, responses, how we carry them out and where they eventually might put us. I think this is an exercise that keeps the human mind aware of itself. Most creatures we know of do not have the ability to imagine themselves and how everything is relative (to themselves and everything else). They see things as absolutes and make judgments according to that. For instance, a wolf would not suppose he was a duck, or to an extent, a wolf would not suppose he was a duck being hunted by a wolf. Really this will turn in to off subject rambling. Signing off.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
It might has well been millions of years since I've posted. Wow. I could make a million excuses as well but it would probably be more beneficial to take action.Here's a pic I worked on for all of two hours, pondering how much ordinary people mean to us in our lives but create such a lasting effect. Love, hate, idolize or what ever you do to specific people in your life they are still ordinary people working with (in general) everything you (we) have. Nobody in real life has super powers or abilities that the average individual cannot attain on their own, yet still we sit in amazement/awe of what they do. You get on life so take action. Hmmm. Now reading this explination I might have trouble sleeping. :(
I watched movies wondering if I would see the day humans and technology mixed together; Ghost In The Shell, Robocop, Terminator, Akira, ect... Recently I began to notice it has already begun of course not is the sci-ficyberpunkish ideas we've seen in movies and tv but people on blue-tooth, i-phones. PSP, I-pod and the DS are carried around as if they are an appendage of the person. To think something like this has happened so gradually, so passively it makes me wonder how long will it be before I look back as I am right now trying to remember when people began infusing technology with in their skin or technologically augmenting their abilities. I think of the hearing aid, the pacemaker. I wonder what type of device would be so incredibly useful for someone to actually attach it to oneself? First what comes to mind would be a memory device, a camera or recording device. Or more likely than that a health related device, but this is obvious because it has already happened as stated above. Any how it's beginning to seem more likely that I will see such a day when this type of this is not uncommon. So to say.
When I got home there was a rabbit in my garage. He was about the size of a child's fist. Very sneaky. My brother and I had to lure him out by slowly chasing along the wall. He originally must have gotten stuck in one of our basement windows. I heard him last night and mistook him for some birds fighting. Once I left for work my brother heard him by the window like I had, but when they investigated they saw him trying to jump out. Needless to say they rescued him only to have him sprint around the yard, between cars, in to walls and eventually in to the garage.
Sitting on the ground a thought occurred: If you ask anything a question and received an answer, what would it be? To the earth... How long? Or the clouds... Where are you going? May I join you? Suddenly it began to rain. Passing to the front of the house the sun peaked from behind the clouds. Maybe next time.
Ah time... My time is getting eaten up right now working part time and doing art work in the meantime. Now I know what people mean when they say there isn't enough time to get things done. The day seems like it passes very quickly which can be a half full half empty type of thing.
Here's hoping this loads up. This is just an exercise in rigging I've been practicing in the past month. The eye is a rig while the rest is frame by frame I scribbled on so the eye wouldn't just be floating.... Really I just want to see if I can get this to load.
