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February 14th, 2008 at 12:50 am
If I were you, I would copyright your idea, and see about selling it to http://despair.com/ for next year.
February 14th, 2008 at 10:15 am
I love Demotivators! They’re hilarious! But I couldn’t copyright this one because that’s not one of my own photos. None of those in that poster series are mine…I basically just trolled Google Images using various search strings that came to mind reflecting my mood. I suppose I could re-do them all using my own photos. But I really don’t want to revisit this. I probably will next Valentine’s Day though. Unless there’s a big change in my life somehow.
It took a lot of nerve for me to put all that up here. I kept thinking to myself "what if someone who feels as depressed as I do right now sees these? Am I going to push someone else over the edge or something?" I really didn’t want to do that. I want to help, I want to make people feel better, not worse. I hate for my friends to be miserable. So when I see that my misery is bringing them down too I try to cheer them up. I don’t so much hide my misery, as take the misery of others more seriously then I take my own. So I don’t think they really see how things are with me. Which only adds to the alienation I feel during Valentine’s Day.
I haven’t been able to draw since last December, when I took that little tour past the lives of two of of the most important loves of my life. Nothing. Nada. I didn’t even want to look at my drafting table. That’s usually my outlet and it’s not working this time. I don’t want to touch my cameras anymore either.
So when I saw all this…stuff…coming out of me just now I just ran with it. In a perverse way I’m really happy with that little outburst of creativity. There’s a story about a favorite composer of mine, Ralph Vaughan-Williams, that I particularly love. The story goes, that the composer was present during a final rehearsal of his forth symphony which he did in the years right before the outbreak of the second world war. It’s a dark, severe, discordant piece. When the conductor finished, he asked Vaughan-Williams what he thought, and so the story goes, the composer replied, "I don’t like it, but it’s what I meant." Yeah. I don’t like any of those posters. I hate them all actually. But they’re what I meant.
It got some of it out. But I wouldn’t want anyone else who feels the way I’m feeling right now to see them. If this blog was more popular I probably wouldn’t have posted any of that.
February 14th, 2008 at 11:06 am
For what it’s worth, I enjoyed these. The wrecked car pictures were great. Hmm… I don’t know how to say “enjoy your stew” without sounding sarcastic. I’m not being sarcastic. I hope you’ll find your pencils again.
February 14th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
I know you’re not being sarcastic. I know exactly what you mean. It probably takes another artist to understand how it is that you can create something you absolutely hate and feel blissfully satisfied with it. Thanks Willie! Maybe after I get back from Memphis something inside of me will break free again.