Today's post brought to you by the need to throw SOMETHING on this journal no matter how silly...

[red_satin_doll]

And also, to remind everyone to vote in the otherworldlyric icon challenge contest #162.
ETA: dragonydreams just let me know that voting is closed and winners have been announced. Congratulations to winners spikesredqueen and chic_c !
(While I'm here I might as well send more kudos to wickedbish for being such an awesome icon beta.)



Now go get some sleep - tomorrow's a long day, sweetie.

Comments

[comlodge.livejournal.com]

They probably were 19th century - it is a couple of decades ago. Durn I must be mature. Lol.

oh I don't care if I win in this challenge I just want to share

I know such noble intentions. But of course we are only human so can't help but seek a little more.

Yes I did post the icons to my journal here: http://comlodge.livejournal.com/145910.html

Well I did guffaw when the chimpanzee fooled the experts all those years ago. But perhaps the lesson there is that all primates enjoy a sense of balance and color?

We most of us if not all, can only learn by seeing. I frequently see someone else's piece and think wow how'd they do that. I must have a go. I have though stopped berating myself for not making stuff that looks like others. I realise I have my own voice and I need to listen to it. That's the thing. We might be retouching others photos, but what comes out is something of our own. There are little bits of me in what I produce. Little bits of what I've experienced in life, what I've felt and tasted and suffered and loved. That's teh best part of growing older - so much to put into what we do.

Post your stuff, tell yourself why you did it and how. Someone else is waiting to read that story with you.

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

Yes I did post the icons to my journal here: http://comlodge.livejournal.com/145910.html

And I was the first person in the thread to congratulate you! This no longer surprises me. That's the upside of ADD - everything old is new again. (My age - and the volume of information thrown at us on the internet, and that we're expected to know - make things worse but I've always been forgetful. My mom called me "absent-minded professor" when I was five years old!)

But perhaps the lesson there is that all primates enjoy a sense of balance and color?

I remember seeing a video years ago about Ruby, an elephant at the Phoenix zoo who liked to paint - and did some marvelous abstract paintings. As in genuinely good work - color and composition and everything. We had to get the need to create art from somewhere within ourselves, something genetic; and I don't pretend that humans have the patent on everything y'know?

I have though stopped berating myself for not making stuff that looks like others. I realise I have my own voice and I need to listen to it. That's the thing.

YES! This is very wise, and good for you for getting to that point. I do the same thing all the time with my writing - "Oh someone wrote a fantastic story, I can't match that, etc" It becomes an excuse for not trying. So what if it's "not as good"?

I think the thing I like about icons and images is that I don't feel the same thing? I have an "excuse" - I don't have photoshop so there are things I know I cannot do. That frees me to do what I can. I just did a bunch of Faith,Buffy and Who Are You icons today and I'm really pleased with them because I'm expressing my view of the show through them.

And thank you ever so much for all the encouragement, sweetie!

[comlodge.livejournal.com]

That's the upside of ADD - everything old is new again

Isn't that true. Soon I will have no need to buy new books. I'll be able to read the same one over and over again. :D

So what if it's "not as good"? No. It's good. It's not the same. (Though I do wish I could write like lizzerbeathan. :D

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

No. It's good. It's not the same.

OH VERY TRUE! (intellectually I know that anyway. Maybe I need to post it somewhere. Like a bumper sticker?)

I could write like lizzerbeathan

My if only list includes snowpuppies, kwritten, clockwork_hart, quinara, beer_good_foamy (esp for his wit)....et cetera and so forth.

My friend Kendra Saunders has published several novels and she cites Neil gaiman as an influence. We learn to write by reading so might as well learn from the best, right?

[comlodge.livejournal.com]

We learn to write by reading so might as well learn from the best, right?

Reading crap can be a good lesson too. :D

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

Reading crap can be a good lesson too. :D

Touche!