Purple Sea, Purple Sky

Posted by lemiffe in Literature, Random Poetry on Sep 23rd, 2009 | 0 comments

The atmosphere ringed on for ages, with purple-green horizons staring back at me. And the eyes grew from deep within the trees. I knew I was there, at the right place, at the right time.

I wandered around the tree, one that would be cut down in the following months. I heard sounds of acoustic guitars rattling by near my head; while the bass drum, suspended in mid-air, bang swiftly to the rhythm of drum and bass.

The climbing plants created envelopes around me, and the canvas was covered, bloodshed. I new it was the place, but was it the time? I felt the grass whispering to my feet, don’t strangle me please, don’t kill me. And the buzzing of the birds, and the tweeting of bees, it rang through my brain, tormenting.

It was all going to fast, I could barely understand. It might be the time, but it might not be the place.

And I turned to the tree again, shivering. Icicles formed on the branches of the climbing plants. I was sweltering in the 40ºC mid-day heat. The sky turned orange, then purple again. I did not understand, I felt the violins scream around me. Or they might have been guitars, squelching at incredible speeds. Key change.

I touched the tree, as it slowly faded away into dreams, dreams of a past taken away from me, dreams of a photograph erased, dreams from a lost post, dreams from a memory.

The definitive meaning of Art

Posted by lemiffe in Art, Literature on Aug 18th, 2009 | 2 comments

My sister studied the Visual Arts career for 2 years. I have a couple of other friends who are also in that career. Along the course of my life I have also met several artists, or people who claim to be so. But the particular thing that interests me is the diverse effect the question “What is Art?” produces on them.

I have heard such disparate meanings, some that seem utterly garbage to me. “Art is Anything”, “Art is Everything”, “Art is Beautiful”. I have also read things that actually make sense, such as “Code is Art”. I also believe that scenic acting and comedy are art.

Wikipedia considers art to be “The process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions”. But what if it doesn’t appeal to the senses or emotions? There could be a painting that doesn’t appeal to me in any sort of way, nor make me feel anything when I see it.

Some dictionaries place the meaning to be “the products of human creativity”, “the creation of beautiful or significant things” or “a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation”. These are all ambiguous to me, they don’t mean anything and at the same time they mean everything to someone.

In my point of view, we need to have a solid concrete meaning for art that means the same to everyone. So I consider this to be a good time to stop debating about the meaning and let’s give it a fully comprehensible, objective meaning to the word:

Art is the product of anything you apply creativity and effort into.

Why? Because it is something (visually, orally, written, or expressed in any way) on which one or more people (or automated objects) worked on, using their skills (or not) while creatively imagining the final product, or applying creativity in a continuous process to obtain a result. The result of this process is art.

That way we englobe all possible forms of art: Comedy, Dance, Music, Painting, Literature, anything in which you obtain a result via a creative process and work.

Writing Fast Nonsense

Posted by lemiffe in lemiffe, Literature on May 10th, 2009 | 0 comments

Running fast, running from the former bandits, on the coffee ground. Much to — Inspect this element and put your fingers down, my spine, one a night light this.
I can’t get any sleep, and I fought with the enemy within, horseplaying disease, and I’m paying the price of solitude.
So much older, I’m younger than — And I had something to protect, tears of rage, tears of evil.
Pack up your tins, you ain’t going nowhere. Tomorrows the day. As long as it takes to do this, As long as you remain.
Serves you well, this wheel’s on fire, rolling down the road.

The man who nearly hit my dad

Posted by lemiffe in Literature on Apr 1st, 2009 | 0 comments

Screeching tires,
as he tries to overtake.
The wheels turn in angles,
they should not make.
He avoids the clash by inches,
you should have seen,
the look on his face,
is as he’d took a piss;
or death for him had come,
and gratefully he’d missed.

The everything (pt.1)

Posted by lemiffe in Life, Literature, Misc, Movies, Politics on Dec 29th, 2008 | 0 comments

This is my first short list of movies, documentaries and books I think serve as an interesting theme/template for viewing current, past, and future events on earth. Some of the points in these movies are quite inspiring, thoughtful and realistic…

Some of them can be discerned to be completely incorrect. The point is, developing a critical mind and being able to distinguish between whats real, and what some people want you to consider real.

Movies and Documentaries:

• Zeitgeist
• Zeitgeist II Addendum
• Lessons of Darkness
• 1984
• A brave new world
• The ring of power
• Da Vinci Code

Books:

• Modern money mechanics
• 1984
• A Brave new World
• Da Vinci Code

I will be writing newer versions of this list as I remember more interesting movies and books to check out. If you have any really good suggestions, do not doubt in commenting below.