Ok, I'm going to experiment here.
First of all, I've been thinking about work and college and what I'm going to practice for the rest of my life. I am a graphic designer now, I have been doing it for about 4 years now, and I'm totally self taught. Not for long, though, hence the 'thinking about school' part.
But I've been thinking about the meaning behind design. Communication is kind of the tortilla that holds the design burrito together. The most direct route to be able to communicate with someone is through emotions. Design kind of manipulates or draws peoples into feeling something. Then we get paid $$$
Sounds kinda sleazy when you put it that way, huh??
But we have to communicate somehow... and design never really harms nor hinders, but reflects attitutdes about society. If art is the mirror to the soul, design is the tape recorder. And like a tape recorder, you get decent quality but in 50 years no one will be able to understand it.
But anyway, back to communication, and soul labs.
Soul lab is sort of when people take hallucinigens just to see what will happen. Or, a little less dramatically, its like when someone does anything and studies how it affects their life and personality, or soul.
And then communication. On the outside, society is just a huge game of switchboard. Ideas get communicated and influence other ideas and which in turn influence more ideas...
Links. Chains. Threads. Cycles. and all the things that those words conjure up in my head.
So I've devised a test. An experiment in my little brain lab.
Small things happen to us and effect the course of our lives all the time. One action or observance is linked to another and another. And it happens within us. But we never really notice how it changes.
So, what if we could record it? Say I think of something small that happened to me today. I have a roll of quarters in my desk at work. A customer gave them to me as sort of a toungue in cheek tip, since I'm taking the bus now that my car is in the shop. And, sure enough, this afternoon I had to take 2 quarters out of the roll so I could catch the bus back home.
Thats it. And I put it in this blog, like I just did.
Then, tomorrow or someday soon, I'll comment on its impact to date. And so on....
I realize that the mere fact that I think about it is going to change the way it effects my life. Look, right now I'm already blogging it. But the point is not to make it work, but to experiment.
First of all, I've been thinking about work and college and what I'm going to practice for the rest of my life. I am a graphic designer now, I have been doing it for about 4 years now, and I'm totally self taught. Not for long, though, hence the 'thinking about school' part.
But I've been thinking about the meaning behind design. Communication is kind of the tortilla that holds the design burrito together. The most direct route to be able to communicate with someone is through emotions. Design kind of manipulates or draws peoples into feeling something. Then we get paid $$$
Sounds kinda sleazy when you put it that way, huh??
But we have to communicate somehow... and design never really harms nor hinders, but reflects attitutdes about society. If art is the mirror to the soul, design is the tape recorder. And like a tape recorder, you get decent quality but in 50 years no one will be able to understand it.
But anyway, back to communication, and soul labs.
Soul lab is sort of when people take hallucinigens just to see what will happen. Or, a little less dramatically, its like when someone does anything and studies how it affects their life and personality, or soul.
And then communication. On the outside, society is just a huge game of switchboard. Ideas get communicated and influence other ideas and which in turn influence more ideas...
Links. Chains. Threads. Cycles. and all the things that those words conjure up in my head.
So I've devised a test. An experiment in my little brain lab.
Small things happen to us and effect the course of our lives all the time. One action or observance is linked to another and another. And it happens within us. But we never really notice how it changes.
So, what if we could record it? Say I think of something small that happened to me today. I have a roll of quarters in my desk at work. A customer gave them to me as sort of a toungue in cheek tip, since I'm taking the bus now that my car is in the shop. And, sure enough, this afternoon I had to take 2 quarters out of the roll so I could catch the bus back home.
Thats it. And I put it in this blog, like I just did.
Then, tomorrow or someday soon, I'll comment on its impact to date. And so on....
I realize that the mere fact that I think about it is going to change the way it effects my life. Look, right now I'm already blogging it. But the point is not to make it work, but to experiment.