After realizing that all of my ideas were pretentious sh*t and not entertaining in the slightest I finally got an idea that was worth pursuing.
I am working on a short film about the way to not make art, essentially documenting my struggle to produce something that can be labeled as ‘art’.
Now to a recap on what happened during my autumn break: news flash not a lot.
I could not make anything entertaining or happy but since I refused to make a memorial to my sadness I simply laid down and did nothing. However near the end of the break I eventually managed to leave my personal pitty party (oh snap an alliteration) and started to work on the project I mentioned above.
Now I regret not being productive during my break. But I know I was not my fault and I try to not beat myself up for it.
What inspired me to make a short film with more plot in it was “Dead Man” by Jim Jarmusch. This film is perfect in every way, I want to marry it.
It’s from 1995 and for once Johnny Depp does not play a ‘weird’ character.
Well to sum it up my break was not eventful but I still managed to come back from the void and started to make a cool short film, awesome!
While I am writing this text I am hearing the song Facade thus the rather strange title. I am currently endorsed in the Discworld and especially interested in Ankh-Morporks Patriarch. The song was in a character playlist on 8Tracks and its been in my head all day.
Funnily it actually fits the plans I have for my video installation. I bought a plaque mask while I was in Venice last week. It looks a bit like this one:
It will be the face for one of the two main actors in the installation. Recently it occurred to me that my video will probably be much more narrative than I intended it to be but I do not really mind.
I often remind myself that all these drafts and ideas are worthless if I am not getting my sorry ass up and actually make something out of them... I still procrastinate though. (note to self: more motivation!)
Yeah sorry for the delay, the original post was rotting in the queue but here I finally am!
So about this blog. Even though this is the first post on it we actually already reached a tumblr-milestone because the first porn-blog is following us, hurray! But seriously these spam-blogs are really getting out of hand.
Also please excuse my excessive use of GIFs, I just cannot help it.
An important note! I’d like this blog to have a tagging system therefore general post will be tagged with #pinkupdate and every member will have an individual tag which they can choose.
Mine will be #sillyproject I am probably going to post some bits and pieces of my work progress later this week :)
A few words on my creative progress are under the cut!
So I tried really hard to come up with good ideas... well that didn’t work out as planned. Whenever I had a good idea I eventually gave up on it because I had no idea how to produce it. I always had either not enough people or no costumes or not the right props to visualize the video in the way I want it -.-
I got so frustrated I actually started to learn how to cook because I wanted to clear my mind and do something else.
Nevertheless I actually did get inspired a lot by very creative videos such as:
The “Don’t hug me I’m scared” series. I especially love the way their costumes are made.
And “Kick the PJ” who has a very distinctive video style. All his videos have a pretty DIY vibe and often use mixed media.
I am gonna post again when I am out of this creative void...