Been workin hard. Late nights in the studio...painting, hammering, glittering, etc.
Today, drove some artworks out to the gallery in EH, glad to be forced to take the drive. GORGEOUS fall colors, the trees and fields.....Red, yellow, orange explosions, everything in hypercolor.
Back home, I prepped and did another resin pour on 6 pieces. Nerve-wracking stuff. Dealing with floating glitter, dust, bubbles..trying to get as much out as possible before it cures...heat gun...etc.
Exhausted in the eve, decide to pick up a movie from the library to watch during pizza-time. Needed to be passively inspired. hard to choose a movie in that mood, because I'm so worried it will feel like a waste of time.
But we chose a french film called Thomas est amoureux/Thomas in Love and loved it. Hoo. Pretty perfectly appropriate for my mindstate. These are the questions I'm asking myself...trying to see ahead...what sort of psychological transformations are taking place now in this Internet age...how our relationships change, how it affects different personalities...levels of intimacy etc!
Here's a pretty good review exerpt:
Thomas est amoureux
"A severe agoraphobe (afraid of open spaces) spends his whole life shut up in his apartment, experiencing only what he can via his computer screen. Since this takes place in the near future, he can actually see and do quite a bit. (The only problem, same as nowadays, is getting a repair technician to actually make a housecall... but since Thomas *never* leaves his home anyway, this doesn't prove to be too much of a difficulty.) His therapist thinks Thomas could benefit by more human contact so he enrolls Thomas in a dating agency and a medical prostitution service. Thomas is intrigued by a woman he meets in each place... but will either of them be able to get him to leave his apartment and have a real relationship... or will they be stuck in those embarrassing, clunky cybersex suits forever? This very interesting movie takes place entirely from the point of view of Thomas. The audience can only see what Thomas sees on his computer screen. We can hear his voice but we never see his face. The movie is carried by the performances of the people he encounters in his daily routine... everyone is completely believable. In another ten years' time this film will probably seem like a documentary."
Today, drove some artworks out to the gallery in EH, glad to be forced to take the drive. GORGEOUS fall colors, the trees and fields.....Red, yellow, orange explosions, everything in hypercolor.
Back home, I prepped and did another resin pour on 6 pieces. Nerve-wracking stuff. Dealing with floating glitter, dust, bubbles..trying to get as much out as possible before it cures...heat gun...etc.
Exhausted in the eve, decide to pick up a movie from the library to watch during pizza-time. Needed to be passively inspired. hard to choose a movie in that mood, because I'm so worried it will feel like a waste of time.
But we chose a french film called Thomas est amoureux/Thomas in Love and loved it. Hoo. Pretty perfectly appropriate for my mindstate. These are the questions I'm asking myself...trying to see ahead...what sort of psychological transformations are taking place now in this Internet age...how our relationships change, how it affects different personalities...levels of intimacy etc!
Here's a pretty good review exerpt:
Thomas est amoureux
"A severe agoraphobe (afraid of open spaces) spends his whole life shut up in his apartment, experiencing only what he can via his computer screen. Since this takes place in the near future, he can actually see and do quite a bit. (The only problem, same as nowadays, is getting a repair technician to actually make a housecall... but since Thomas *never* leaves his home anyway, this doesn't prove to be too much of a difficulty.) His therapist thinks Thomas could benefit by more human contact so he enrolls Thomas in a dating agency and a medical prostitution service. Thomas is intrigued by a woman he meets in each place... but will either of them be able to get him to leave his apartment and have a real relationship... or will they be stuck in those embarrassing, clunky cybersex suits forever? This very interesting movie takes place entirely from the point of view of Thomas. The audience can only see what Thomas sees on his computer screen. We can hear his voice but we never see his face. The movie is carried by the performances of the people he encounters in his daily routine... everyone is completely believable. In another ten years' time this film will probably seem like a documentary."