Tuesday, March 08, 2005

tuesday night

Tuesday night is pretty boring, aside from completing a few tasks that i'm obliged to do, i havn't done anything special. The highlight of the night was changing my desktop wallpaper. Tonight i opted for an image that is calm, more spatious, and is one of those pictures that seem like there's a story behind it. I like those because you can imagine a whole world behind one picture, because it is open ended and the frame show you only as much as you need to know to think up the rest of the sequence of images yourself. I think it is similar to watching a film, because a film only shows you two hours of edited footage, and the rest of the story is only implied, but is "supposed" to have really happened. The audience has to figure out the non diegetic stuff, at least good films do this so that people can use their imagination and brain to figure out what the whole story is. Maybe this is why people like looking at pictures and paintings too, because some pictures can be radical, or closed up in some way that a viewer will be attracted to it by its unique kind of mystery, or its complex technique (which is also another form of mystery) that they are drawn to it and can stand to hang it up on their wall and look at it for years and years to come. Its not so much the picture itself that is good, but your relationship to it, and how much you can figure into it, or imagine out of it. Anyway, i always like my wallpapers more when they are animated, as opposed to more realist. I think animation creates even more of a distance between me and the picture, that i will like it more because it is more fantastical, and far from reality so that i can imagine more, or get a greater vibe from it than a realist picture. Anyway, that is my picture, i wont post it because after all the above, people'll probably be disappointed.
So that was my tuesday night, aside from writing in this blog.

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