On Misdirected Creativity

Sep 06, 2007 21:42

Recently on Metafilter, someone posted a link to Automated Mario: video of user-created Super Mario World levels that are designed to play themselves. And this was cool and nifty and entertaining ( Read more... )

nerdfulness, misdirected creativity, meme, introspection

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6_bleen_7 September 7 2007, 05:36:24 UTC


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anaesthete September 7 2007, 06:53:31 UTC
I thought you said that art just made you think that people have way too much free time. Oh wait....

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darksasami September 7 2007, 08:15:03 UTC
I did. But a post from my friend kinkyturtle made me reconsider that. In reaction to someone saying that he had too much time on his hands, he proclaimed that no, everyone else doesn't have enough. Can't argue with that.

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digoraccoon September 7 2007, 13:20:28 UTC
That's what i'm really complaining about when I say people have too much free time. It's that *I* lack free time because I'd love to be doing stuff like that. Sriously, there's not enough art in the world. Creating such art and music is what makes us human and we can't lose touch of that or we'd all become like the machines that service our lives.

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darksasami September 7 2007, 18:06:07 UTC
You godwinned my livejournal!

Though I'm sure that somehow, if only those three things could be combined together in some way, it would be of net benefit to humanity.

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neologue September 8 2007, 06:42:13 UTC
A strange confluence of coincidences --

- though I read the article when it was posted on MeFi (and quite remember being entertained, if not heartened, by the optimism of your comment), having just nabbed a computer that isn't ten years old I only just one of the videos a couple of hours ago

- paging through the best opening song lyrics post, I noted that you submitted Moxy Fruvous' "The Drinking Song" and are thus cool

so!

- clicking ensues, and I find that MeFi has no method of giving props (as it were) any louder than favoriting

so!

- I land here, find the waaay aforementioned and aforeappreciated comment front and center, and set to acclamatory commenting. The 'net is serpentine and serendipitous.

Anyhow, just wanted to stop by to say that I dig your faith in the primordial fidgeting reflex, or fundamental curiosity, or 'mis'directed creativity (or free play, heh), and to ask if you ever got to see Fruvous live. I only got to do so once (a setlist I found), and it was awesome.

Ta!

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darksasami September 8 2007, 07:03:28 UTC
Thanks! I always desperately seek affirmation appreciate the occasional kudos.

I was not so lucky as to see Fruvous, no. Didn't hear about them until too late, and then for a long time only through "Green Eggs and Ham."

And I'm amazed that Kant ever spent time on anything so interesting as "free play" -- and bet his works on it are as fun to read as the rest of what he wrote. Unfortunately, I haven't read them, but I have slammed my nose into them several times while making the attempt.

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neologue September 8 2007, 07:42:29 UTC
I can one-up you a bit on that -- when I was a freshman, I tried to write a scathing critique of his aesthetics in a single night. Suffice it to say, I realized that (having not even finished a half-semester of philosophy class) doing this in a few hours was futile. I started digging my way out of my stupid idea, and by the morning I had finished the first draft of "A Long Day's Journey Into Kant; or, Kant: Why You Shouldn't".

The fact that a B-plus came out of that definitely didn't help wean me off of eventually (academically, at least) fatal procrastination...heheh.

Have you heard the Frufan songs? The Krista Ortgussen song is oddly touching and epic, especially considering the rhyming challenge.

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neologue September 8 2007, 07:59:22 UTC
So maybe the mp3 link is dead. Apparently there's a Fruvous torrent that's still being seeded (!), so here's a working one.

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