bassman1887

Up until now, my account has been meaningless pictures and a few bad poems.  No more.  Now I have... a photo collage?  Aren't those something you make for "English" projects in middle school?  Not this.  I have so many thoughts, so complex of thoughts, that I couldn't possibly explain any of them.  For the first time, I feel I have created art.  Real, meaningful art that can expand minds and induce questions.  I've explored a piece of human nature and invited others to discover it.

This post sounds over-the-top (the hypomania of my bipolar is running on all cylinders, so it probably is) with extremely excessive hon-tooting.  My point is that for the first time, I'm incredibly happy with something I've created.

I have a decent number of photos on here.  Some of them look kind of cool.  Others I just wish looked cool.  Some come from me seeing things out of context, but what I end up with is beauty only I see.  I don't care that nobody else sees it, that's besides the point.

The point is that I only have a handful of photos that having any real meaning.  Beauty isn't enough.  Art is about truth, about asking questions, about making people think.  The ironic thing is that these ideals rarely coincide with beauty.  

I watch films by people like Fellini, Antonioni, Bresson, Bunuel, Bergman, and so many others of the ilk, and now I've come to think "That's what I need to do with a camera."  Or maybe with words.  However I figure out to do it, that's what I need to do.

I'm making a photo collage of 21 pictures of glasses.  Therefore You might notice a sudden influx of pictures of glassware.  It seems to be the only thing I can take decent photos of.  Hopefully I don't run out of ideas before 21.

If you're favoriting my work just so I come look at you're profile, you won't read this, but you can fuck off.

I took my first nature shots in at least 8 months, probably longer.  It felt amazing.  I saw things completely differently than I would have back then.  Things I wouldn't have taken paused at I got some great shots out of, and I walked right some things that I would have done nothing but waste time with in the past.  

Unfortunately, my best photo got corrupted when my computer's loose power stem and shorted-out batter charging circuit bit me in the ass (always use COPY and paste, not CUT and paste) but that just might mean I'll head out right away tomorrow and hope I can get about the same thing...  I'm not really that bothered though, I think I still got some great shots.