Things I'm thinking about
Still not caught up. Maybe I'll get to see SPN tomorrow? In the interim, shallow TV thoughts:
Vampire Diaries: Okay, I admit that Damon has fewer redeeming qualities than Lex Luthor. But damn, does he hold the eye. I’m now ready for Damon/anyone (or /everyone), though Damon/Alaric and Damon/Bonnie are probably my favorites.
Fringe: PI Dunham/Lt. Broyles = unfh unfh unfh hot. Olivia Dunham in her forties hair and curled eyelashes, talking on her cellphone or getting the patent office guy to show her the files on his computer = hot and hilarious. (Incidentally, image-based search in Walter’s mind is very advanced!) PI Dunham = almost as awesome as Agent Dunham. Thanks for taking the chance on a crazy musical, Fringe!
I’m totally shocked that Roundup Ready seeds have led to the evolution of … Roundup-resistant superweeds. Who could have seen that one coming?
In terms of creativity and copying, have a letter from Vincent van Gogh:
What I’m seeking in [copying works by Millet], and why it seems good to me to copy them, I’m going to try to tell you. We painters are always asked to compose ourselves and to be nothing but composers.
Very well-but in music it isn’t so-and if such a person plays some Beethoven he’ll add his personal interpretation to it-in music, and then above all for singing-a composer’s interpretation is something, and it isn’t a hard and fast rule that only the composer plays his own compositions.
. . . . I place the black-and-white by Delacroix or Millet or after them in front of me as a subject. And then I improvise colour on it but, being me, not completely of course, but seeking memories of their paintings-but the memory, the vague consonance of colours that are in the same sentiment, if not right-that’s my own interpretation.
Heaps of people don’t copy. Heaps of others do copy-for me, I set myself to it by chance, and I find that it teaches and above all sometimes consoles.
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Vampire Diaries: Okay, I admit that Damon has fewer redeeming qualities than Lex Luthor. But damn, does he hold the eye. I’m now ready for Damon/anyone (or /everyone), though Damon/Alaric and Damon/Bonnie are probably my favorites.
Fringe: PI Dunham/Lt. Broyles = unfh unfh unfh hot. Olivia Dunham in her forties hair and curled eyelashes, talking on her cellphone or getting the patent office guy to show her the files on his computer = hot and hilarious. (Incidentally, image-based search in Walter’s mind is very advanced!) PI Dunham = almost as awesome as Agent Dunham. Thanks for taking the chance on a crazy musical, Fringe!
I’m totally shocked that Roundup Ready seeds have led to the evolution of … Roundup-resistant superweeds. Who could have seen that one coming?
In terms of creativity and copying, have a letter from Vincent van Gogh:
What I’m seeking in [copying works by Millet], and why it seems good to me to copy them, I’m going to try to tell you. We painters are always asked to compose ourselves and to be nothing but composers.
Very well-but in music it isn’t so-and if such a person plays some Beethoven he’ll add his personal interpretation to it-in music, and then above all for singing-a composer’s interpretation is something, and it isn’t a hard and fast rule that only the composer plays his own compositions.
. . . . I place the black-and-white by Delacroix or Millet or after them in front of me as a subject. And then I improvise colour on it but, being me, not completely of course, but seeking memories of their paintings-but the memory, the vague consonance of colours that are in the same sentiment, if not right-that’s my own interpretation.
Heaps of people don’t copy. Heaps of others do copy-for me, I set myself to it by chance, and I find that it teaches and above all sometimes consoles.
comments on DW | reply there. I have invites or you can use OpenID.