What's the first thing you do in the mornings?
Definitely not stream Netflix and watch Death to 2021 and then thoughtlessly go through Death to 2020 as well.
It was fun to watch. The commentary from the make-believe people enlivened it. I saw Chidi of The Good Place as the billionaire who thought only of profits. Hugh Grant as a TV and movie geek than an actual historian. Kathy Flowers was incredibly more frustrating in Death to 2020 and I really enjoyed Nerrick. Madison Madison's questions were delivered with credence and Lisa Kudrow, despite the character she plays, remains charming to me.
The jabs made on Trump as the orange maniac and the reference to Biden as a ghost was funny, even the take on the Prime Minister as being the least qualified was hilarious.
The most emotionally charged scene was that of Christin Milioti denying the elections. Reflection from what I watched: Not everything other people say is true or logical and a person given to falsehoods can also say something worth learning about.
6:16 pm
The day may be considered productive because I have been cleaning around. The grout still has moss, the commercial multipurpose cleaner and vinegar with baking soda didn't cut it. It's still a mess out here, but a tolerable mess.
After finishing Blue Period which is quite an invitation to pursuing your passion through hardwork and sharing with other people how you see the world through the lens of your own eyes, I returned to listening to Welcome to Nightvale.
Blue Period started off with the main character Yatora Yaguchi. He was running his life like it was a well-oiled on-time train where his studies and social life are viewed as meeting a quota (the translation said that) and how "I don't understand how you can do what you want without making a living from it." when he was pertaining to wanting to be an artist. The professor saw through him and said he was minding too much how he was seen by people that he hides what is valuable to him.
My favorite lines:
1. Art is fun. People who are true to themselves make great art.
2. When you feel joy, excitement and passion while making art, the viewer will also enjoy your work.
Then I remember Death to 2021's line on social media cashing in negative emotions better than Adele.
3. Kids who don't try their best are those who don't have passion. Isn't it just natural to put everything you have into pursuing your passion?
At this point Yaguchi is testing if painting is for him.
4. When hardworkers do things they like they're unstoppable.
5. Art conveys things that cannot be conveyed by words... When seeing it, you get to know it. When drawing it, you get to understand it.
Yaguchi was convincing his mother that he is serious about painting.
6. I want to get better and see more of the world.
7. By appreciating various works, and knowing how to give various answers, you can reflect them in your own works and ideas.
8. But if I have to be what the world tells me to be I'd rather die.
Not that I want to die already, but Yuka stands for being himself. It's empowering to see someone who's tried living a constrained life breaking out of it.
9. I can't protect myself by doing what I like?
10. What they like perhaps can protect them, but it also hurts them.
This posits that liking something does not always bring joy. It is also a source of pain.
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This is no quote but still informative lesson on masterpieces having great composition by
A. Having flow
B. Fitting the theme
C. Directing focus on key elements
D. Making you look at every corner
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11. Making a replica is not just copying. If you do it with your heart, you'll understand many things.
And with that gentle nudge, the student understood firsthand his art lessons.
12. Making art is freer than I imagined.
13. You don't even have to do art.
At this part I was thinking Yota meant that Yatora already has everything, he doesn't need to excel in making art too. When Yatora said if his art was compelling, he wouldn't be told that meant: his not making art is not the world's loss. Ow. That's only when it hits me that it could be interpreted that way. Those two really need to communicate better.
14. I can't make art like (names others) but no one else can do my art either.
15. You have to believe in your art.
16. You have to figure out your goal and get there by yourself.
17. Good art clearly expresses the mindset of the artist.
18. There is no failing in art.
Followed by the probing is it because of a critique or you didn't like your work line. Because that is how we measure failing, according to how others see it or how we do.
19. Art is a language without words.
That's 5.
20. She hasn't changed her message, just her way of expressing it.
21. But composition is only a tool, not the message.
22. Doing things I like doesn't mean it's always fun.
Back to 9 and 10.
23. I'm not talented. I can only improve by practicing. Then I'll practice until my work is no different from a genius.
24. Popular things all have some strengths. I too want a strength, a weapon of my own.
25. I realized that I've been putting arbitrary limits to my art.
That's another way to say 12.
26. It's good to dissect other works but it's dangerous to make too much of a comparison. You shouldn't aim to get first place but to make your own masterpiece.
27. The road to art school is lonely. There's so little time and no right answer.
28. But what's scary about art is it reveals everything about me.
Art is an exercise in creation that reflects the creator.
29. If I make art out of fun but end up rejected, I'm afraid I won't be able to recover from that.
30. Don't hide your true feelings. Use your communication skills to empower them.
31. Adaptability, self-centeredness and the ability to have fun... I should break down the assignment and make it my own art. I'll make the art piece that I like.
32. All feelings coexist. My desperate wish to pass this exam and my desire to kill everyone. I don't care about the exam anymore. Just please let me make this piece.
Not that I'm into the diligent killer types like Penn Badgely in You, but that drive to create bordering on destruction adds a nice hue.
33. I've been holding my breath to stay focused all this time. But if I keep holding my breath, I'll suffocate. Taking a breather is not slacking.
34. Looking at things as art, everyone would be drawn to different things.
35. You don't have to force yourself to be eccentric or to imitate others...By looking at other people's work, you can discover new things about yourself.
36. Knowing that I'll have a long way to go, it's frustrating but I was relieved.
37. You don't just pour colors into your art. You're the only one who knows what's the best color for you.
38. It's not just about pouring colors. Choosing not to choose is equally important.
39. If I sharpen all my senses, I gradually get to see what's important to me now. Each individual color sparks my heart (Marie Kondo, is that you?)... What do I want to express in red?
The line is not fully quotable but the truth of making art to express over merely creating what looks beautiful is important. Much like a dish in a plate must be edible, majority of what's in a canvas is not happenstance but deliberate - they have meaning.
40. The only way to expand your world is to experience things you aren't familiar with.
And so he goes and draws himself nude in a room alone with a cross-dresser.
41. Sometimes other people can identify your strengths for you.
42.
Yuka: Shall we go drowning? In the sea.
Yatora: I'm not going to drown. I'll keep swimming to stay on the surface.
43. You'd better die naked. If that embarasses you and you're bothered by people's opinions, then you can't die just yet.
44. I thought my passion was the only thing that could protect me, but sometimes I don't even know what my true passion really is.
45. To look at your naked self and show it to people is to accept who you really are. Both the pretty and the ugly parts.
This ties in eventually with how Yatora sees his duality, how he is both arrogant and insecure. His confidence in insecurity that he now acccepts that his close people sees him as he is, versus showing them a persona he is not - like hiding his anguish or holding back on sharing his thoughts. He realizes that he is projecting confidence without actually being so. Thereby, he follows Koi's advice (30) and covers all his bases like the romantic realist that he is. His ability to adapt to the challenge does not make him lose himself. Yatora incorporated the concept of his vulnerability and applied (21) painting techniques and skills to depict his message within the confines of painting a nude model.
46. Confidence makes one's art persuasive. Hesitation makes one's art weak.
47. I never noticed that before making art I was not even pathetically naked, I was transparent.
After brewing, I realized what this meant. Initially, I thought how can you be transparent when you purposefully chose to not show your real self to everyone? And he's exactly right. He was transparent in a sense that he blended in the background, that to this world, he was nothing - a mere being that exists without living. The sun warms him but he is not conscious enough to feel it fully. He is a son with a mother whose dedication he did not realize until he drew her. A friend who was always present but kept holding back.
That —— compared to being naked where he meant he was solid and seeing himself; he was now alive and aware of his flaws and weaknesses. Instead of simply putting himself in the position of others with his mindset, he is now looking at their decisions with respect, much like he scrutinizes a subject of art or ascribes a visual form to his emotions. He no longer looks at things just as they are but reviews them in depth, exerting conscious effort to think about it instead of simply using trite generalizations (after having learned to come up with realizations on his own during his lessons instead of simply following what other people say.)
48. I have no regrets but I have a lot to reflect on.
49. I'm not regretful. That said, I'm not satisfied either. There's nothing I can do anymore.
50. Artwork is only completed when you give up on it.
The series has less than 30 minutes per episode including the intro and ending songs and I watched it in 1.5 speed so it was a quick watch.
And now, I saw that Perfume is on Netflix. Hurrah! Finally! The first time I was told this story from the movie, I was fascinated. It was the last book I finished on my e-reader. Now, I'm seeing the movie.
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