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Ponderings...
Nov. 26th, 2004 10:25 am[Oh before I forget. A Happy very Belated Birthday to Masq, wasn't really online until Nov. 23rd unfortunately, so missed it. And A Happy Birthday to LondonKDS.]
Hmmm. Don't usually do these quiz meme things. Why? I have a dial-up and the download time for the graphics to appear annoys me. Usually as it is slowly downloading to the screen, my connection clicks me off, and I have to sign on again. Yes, I know...I need to get myself DSL or a cable modem stat. Working up to it. First DVD. Then maybe DSL. Then maybe cell phone. By the time I fully join the new tech age, we'll be in the next one.
Don't know why I did one today? Busy, busy, busy (everytime I think that, I feel as if I have the voice of the villainous cartoon magician from Frosty The Snowman in my head.)
Enjoyed Thanksgiving with Bear in the Big Blue House (The Puppeteer) and his lovely wife, Schrodiner's Cat ( thanksgiving stuff )
Interesting responses to my post about being influenced by others. There was one response, that I'd seen several times before, but for the first time hit me in a different way.
"Sometimes I'll read posts on the board or online and wonder if we're even watching the same show."
And it occurred to me. We're not. Oh technically the show we are watching is the same. Same actors, same directors, etc. But through our filter it is not.
Just as it isn't the same through their's. Read a couple of the interviews with Whedon, Greenwalt, Marsters, SMG, Boreanze, Noxon, etc - compare them.
Note how many times these people contradict each other. Almost as if they were working on different series or shows. They were in a way. Each brought and focused on different aspects. Was playing this DVD trivia game called Scene IT yesterday - and was struck by the different things people picked up on each time a movie clip was played. (The game is like trivia pursuit, except focuses on movies, and you can play video clips with questions attached. We sort of ditched the game and just played with the clips.) At any rate - one person focues on the dialogue, one on who the actors were, one on the set details, one on the name of the film. So when the question popped up - the person focusing on the correct thing, got it right. We were also discussing theater,
three of the people had seen the Broadway Musical - The Scarlett Pimpernel.
One loved it. The other two - hated it. And I bet they say different musicals.
Oh they could have been sitting in the theater at the same time, but what they viewed was different - becuase of what they brought to it.
If your favorite character on Buffy the Vampire Slayer was Xander, I bet you weren't that fond of any season after S4. May have even despised the last two seasons. But if your favorite character was Spike, you may be ambivalent about Season 3 and 1. At the Baby Shower I was at, a woman I was speaking to, told me that she had no real interest in S3, because Spike was only in one episode and adored 4. While I know people who pretty much stopped watching Buffy after Angel left, and just watched Angel the Series. There are others, who watched because they loved the high school storyline and lost interest the moment it ended. I wonder sometimes if we realize how much of ourselves we bring to watching or experiencing a piece of art work? That our appreciation of it may change, the art doesn't change, but how we see it and experience it will as we do. Something we hated two years ago, may be something we love. It's the same, but we've changed. Like a cartoon you adored as a child and as an adult find inane. The cartoon didn't change. You did. But you aren't seeing the same one,
your perspective has alterred it in your head. Kidbro told me long ago that art, whatever art it is, is an interactive experience. I didn't quite understand what he meant, I think I do now.
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Hmmm. Don't usually do these quiz meme things. Why? I have a dial-up and the download time for the graphics to appear annoys me. Usually as it is slowly downloading to the screen, my connection clicks me off, and I have to sign on again. Yes, I know...I need to get myself DSL or a cable modem stat. Working up to it. First DVD. Then maybe DSL. Then maybe cell phone. By the time I fully join the new tech age, we'll be in the next one.
Don't know why I did one today? Busy, busy, busy (everytime I think that, I feel as if I have the voice of the villainous cartoon magician from Frosty The Snowman in my head.)
Enjoyed Thanksgiving with Bear in the Big Blue House (The Puppeteer) and his lovely wife, Schrodiner's Cat ( thanksgiving stuff )
Interesting responses to my post about being influenced by others. There was one response, that I'd seen several times before, but for the first time hit me in a different way.
"Sometimes I'll read posts on the board or online and wonder if we're even watching the same show."
And it occurred to me. We're not. Oh technically the show we are watching is the same. Same actors, same directors, etc. But through our filter it is not.
Just as it isn't the same through their's. Read a couple of the interviews with Whedon, Greenwalt, Marsters, SMG, Boreanze, Noxon, etc - compare them.
Note how many times these people contradict each other. Almost as if they were working on different series or shows. They were in a way. Each brought and focused on different aspects. Was playing this DVD trivia game called Scene IT yesterday - and was struck by the different things people picked up on each time a movie clip was played. (The game is like trivia pursuit, except focuses on movies, and you can play video clips with questions attached. We sort of ditched the game and just played with the clips.) At any rate - one person focues on the dialogue, one on who the actors were, one on the set details, one on the name of the film. So when the question popped up - the person focusing on the correct thing, got it right. We were also discussing theater,
three of the people had seen the Broadway Musical - The Scarlett Pimpernel.
One loved it. The other two - hated it. And I bet they say different musicals.
Oh they could have been sitting in the theater at the same time, but what they viewed was different - becuase of what they brought to it.
If your favorite character on Buffy the Vampire Slayer was Xander, I bet you weren't that fond of any season after S4. May have even despised the last two seasons. But if your favorite character was Spike, you may be ambivalent about Season 3 and 1. At the Baby Shower I was at, a woman I was speaking to, told me that she had no real interest in S3, because Spike was only in one episode and adored 4. While I know people who pretty much stopped watching Buffy after Angel left, and just watched Angel the Series. There are others, who watched because they loved the high school storyline and lost interest the moment it ended. I wonder sometimes if we realize how much of ourselves we bring to watching or experiencing a piece of art work? That our appreciation of it may change, the art doesn't change, but how we see it and experience it will as we do. Something we hated two years ago, may be something we love. It's the same, but we've changed. Like a cartoon you adored as a child and as an adult find inane. The cartoon didn't change. You did. But you aren't seeing the same one,
your perspective has alterred it in your head. Kidbro told me long ago that art, whatever art it is, is an interactive experience. I didn't quite understand what he meant, I think I do now.