Self-imposed or otherwise.
I apologize for the vulgarity.
I'm not sorry at all for the vulgarity.
Just have fun. Yes, there are lines, but a lot of times you don't know where they are until you've crossed them. It should be any artist's hope to set out to cross lines, push boundaries, elicit emotional responses, extract polar opposite opinions.
"I hate it" is better than "meh..."...
So yeah. Fuck rules and thinking you have to be a certain way or play a certain song or write a certain lyric to be accepted or popular or successful. Define your own acceptance, popularity, success. Just do you...
If it sounds like I'm trying to inspire myself... well, gosh... isn't that one of the points of writing a blog...?
Showing posts with label boundaries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label boundaries. Show all posts
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Pushing Boundaries
Is what I'm doing, playing, writing, singing... is any of it pushing the boundaries enough?
I took a directing class while I was a third year at UCI. There were several memorable moments throughout the quarter, but one that sticks out most of all is a discussion regarding an excerpt from a play that I've since forgotten. A classmate had been assigned this scene to direct... and there was a line in the script that called for the main character to gaze into some sort of device that contained the universe or some sort of prism with beauty beyond articulation. I really wish I could remember which play/ scene/ character/ plot device was being discussed. Anyways, my classmate had chosen to make the device more believable and not so outlandishly beautiful/ unbelievable. And our professor, the wise sage Keith Fowler, asked, "Why would you want to do that? If given the choice between making something ordinary or making something beyond belief, why would you settle for ordinary?" And that stuck with me... if only subconsciously up until this blog post.
Am I settling for the ordinary? Am I doing work that's just "good enough"? Or am I pushing myself to reach the point where my work/ music/ performance is beautiful beyond articulation...? Or at least memorable so as to force the audience to pick a side of the fence...
It's 22:52. Go work on forcing people to have an opinion about you, Glynn. Go push some boundaries...
I took a directing class while I was a third year at UCI. There were several memorable moments throughout the quarter, but one that sticks out most of all is a discussion regarding an excerpt from a play that I've since forgotten. A classmate had been assigned this scene to direct... and there was a line in the script that called for the main character to gaze into some sort of device that contained the universe or some sort of prism with beauty beyond articulation. I really wish I could remember which play/ scene/ character/ plot device was being discussed. Anyways, my classmate had chosen to make the device more believable and not so outlandishly beautiful/ unbelievable. And our professor, the wise sage Keith Fowler, asked, "Why would you want to do that? If given the choice between making something ordinary or making something beyond belief, why would you settle for ordinary?" And that stuck with me... if only subconsciously up until this blog post.
Am I settling for the ordinary? Am I doing work that's just "good enough"? Or am I pushing myself to reach the point where my work/ music/ performance is beautiful beyond articulation...? Or at least memorable so as to force the audience to pick a side of the fence...
It's 22:52. Go work on forcing people to have an opinion about you, Glynn. Go push some boundaries...
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