So we've just sat down and had a chat about what we are going to do for our text project. I really need to get cracking as my last project was handed in late, something I definitely don't wish to repeat. I've been thinking about my animation style and I am determined to go with found objects as I think computer generated stuff is too sterile to believably bubble forth from a subconscious.
Our subconscious natural takes all the things we see on a day to day basis, fragments them and puts them back together to give them a deeper newer meaning. Our brain is constantly firing finding new ideas, making new connections that is how we understand the world in a big web of interrelations and puzzle pieces. Anyway you can probably tell my brain is busy bubbling away at the moment.
I read Stars my Destination by Alfred Bester over the Easter break and I have a suspicion it is going to heavily influence what I do in this project as some of my best automatic writing was done directly after reading it. You can get some information about the novel here.
Some of the things that struck me about it:
- He does this really cool thing with typography to show changes in the way the protaganist experiences things after he is concussed in a massive explosion
- The themes are about human survival, fighting death and raising ones level which I really like and I think have influenced the kind of automatic writing I have done.
- It reminded me of the first time you are really struck by your own mortality and you realize not only are you going to be extinguished but that your life is so insignificant in the scheme of things that it really doesn't matter what you do.
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