Design Forensics-how to dissect art and life
Maybe I am quite bitter about things, maybe I simply had enough of the world of arts and design, maybe I will never do the 40 phone calls about the big project I have worked on for some good 2 months, maybe I dont want to talk about it, maybe I am reluctant about speaking with a few people that occupied my mind for a couple of years in these freelance projects, or maybe I am getting it all wrong, maybe I just dont care any more, maybe I just moved on without reflecting any further.
The market of design and art has never been as difficult and challenging, this thing always excited me, but now I am just looking at the next step, more than success, I am looking at closure.
As I prepare a "bombilla" of Yerba Mate my favorite tea after Guayusa, much more potent than coffee, and much healthier, my favorite "creative" drink (that I discovered when I studied design in Leicester), I reflect on my path. It has been a great journey of discovery, somehow all of it on my own, sadly without any opinions from those that were part of my early artistic exploration, back in my teens.
I guess that walking ones own path of learning is not really an option, a comment by my friend "MadMax" about the movie "Vanishing Point" trigered in me this reflection, indeed the V8 (Dodge Challenger 1970) cannot stop, going through the ultimate barriers is not an option for people like us, alike Kowalski.
In geometry, for a designer (I define as a designer an individual with "designs" as in projects ideas etc...) the vanishing point in perspective wise, the conclusion and destiny, the point behyond which one cannot see, but at the same time the point one must reach.
What is behind the barrier is not predictable, and the time is to drive through it, as Max pointed, if one is to be stopped by a barrier, let it be when is on full speed overcoming it. One just never knows whats on the other side...
To MadMax
The market of design and art has never been as difficult and challenging, this thing always excited me, but now I am just looking at the next step, more than success, I am looking at closure.
As I prepare a "bombilla" of Yerba Mate my favorite tea after Guayusa, much more potent than coffee, and much healthier, my favorite "creative" drink (that I discovered when I studied design in Leicester), I reflect on my path. It has been a great journey of discovery, somehow all of it on my own, sadly without any opinions from those that were part of my early artistic exploration, back in my teens.
I guess that walking ones own path of learning is not really an option, a comment by my friend "MadMax" about the movie "Vanishing Point" trigered in me this reflection, indeed the V8 (Dodge Challenger 1970) cannot stop, going through the ultimate barriers is not an option for people like us, alike Kowalski.
In geometry, for a designer (I define as a designer an individual with "designs" as in projects ideas etc...) the vanishing point in perspective wise, the conclusion and destiny, the point behyond which one cannot see, but at the same time the point one must reach.
What is behind the barrier is not predictable, and the time is to drive through it, as Max pointed, if one is to be stopped by a barrier, let it be when is on full speed overcoming it. One just never knows whats on the other side...
To MadMax
posted by N at
6:26 PM
5 Comments:
Caro N.
Agradeço que me tenhas dedicado o Post, chorei com semelhante gesto, fiquei deveras comovido e emocionado e sim, tens aqui um amigo para a vida.
Mas começemos pelas lágrimas. Pá o facto de teres escolhido o Remake para ilustrar as tuas palavras foi na minha opinião uma má escolha.
Em primeiro lugar ainda andei no video à procura do Frodo ou da Gwynelth Paltrow mas não encontrei e depois no filme original Kowalski não chora, pá porque quer acredites quer não nesta altura esta geração era a geração dos gajos que aguentavam as merdas, aguentavam os embates, " Os duros não dançam."
Penso que nesta cena do Remake existem muitos floreados, o lince os tiros, a noiva etérea, what a fuck!!!!?????
Quem vê o primeiro filme fica deveras surpreendido com o final, porque a violência do embate a rapidez a que vai o carro não nos iriam deixar prever semelhante peripécia.
No tragédia grega a peripécia era o acontecimento que invertia o acontecimento das coisas, que perturbava uma ordem mais ou menos estabelecida.
No original ela está lá e somente se dá no final o que nos deixa um vazio enorme, o nonsense por explicar, o que é que isso quererá dizer a quem viu o filme?
Bem, na minha perspectiva nada, ou pelo menos muita pouca coisa que é o que fica daquela década.
Talvez fique um pouco implícito a ideia de que é terrível viver com medo, é terrível viver sem liberdade, é terrível viver sem de facto se estar a viver e é isso que Kowalski nos diz a todos nós.
Relativamente a ti não sei, pelos vistos e pelo que dizes no post, também esta não é uma altura para se parar.
Eu tenho abrandado um pouco, e tenho levado com alguns embates, não tão definitivos e trágicos como o de Kowalski, mas as coisas são assim mesmo.
Que outra coisa estamos aqui a fazer se não para lutarmos num derradeiro ringue de boxe a que se chama Vida!?!?!?
Há pouco tempo lia Jack London, "Garra Branca", deves ser como o Garra Branca, desconfiares do mundo, de todos os seres vivos, dos grandes e pequenos meu caro, porque a lei da natureza não é branda, é como ele diz " Comer ou ser Comido."
Mas se ser comido for o nosso destino, que levantemos os braços até à última e derradeira palpitação, não ouvi ainda nenhuma sineta!!! Tu já????
madmax
P.S
Se não fosses virtual neste momento dar-te-ia um abraço.
Nice video!
And I understand where you're coming from in your bitterness-after a while, arts and design does get tiresome!
thanks for the sweet comment you left on my guest blog post on the English Muse too!
xoxo,
Micaela
hmm, too bad i discovered your blog as you're shutting it down (thanks for stopping by my anxiety post, by the way - it helps to know other people experience this and i'm not completely insane)...now i want to try yerba mate, especially if it's a good creative drink (my creative drinks usually involve gin) and esp. if it provokes deep, rather dense thoughts...if you're going to blog elsewhere, let me know.
Thanks for stopping by my blog.
Your blog is very nice. The images are very beautiful. God is Great. Best wishes.
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