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maradydd
This will stay at the top of the journal until I get 7 signups.
The first seven (7) people to respond to this post will get something made by me, but ONLY ifmaradydd confirms me for her list of seven.
This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make. I will not take requests. I will accept allergen advisements.
- What I create will be just for you. But it may includesource code, a schematic/BOM, or a protocol so that you can make more of them something completely unexpected.
- It'll be done this year (2009).
- I will post a second post that will be screened for addresses and contact info.
The catch is that you have to put this in your journal as well.
The seven people will be confirmed once they have committed.
The first seven (7) people to respond to this post will get something made by me, but ONLY if
maradydd confirms me for her list of seven. This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make. I will not take requests. I will accept allergen advisements.
- What I create will be just for you. But it may include
- It'll be done this year (2009).
- I will post a second post that will be screened for addresses and contact info.
The catch is that you have to put this in your journal as well.
The seven people will be confirmed once they have committed.
Eric asked me what I thought about something he wrote, which led to a long conversation... if you're feeling literary, feel free to add to the discussion.
Original
The first time I saw you, I was afraid to meet you
The first time I met you, I was afraid to kiss you
The first time I kissed you, I was afraid to hold you
The first time I held you, I was afraid to love you
Now that I love you, I'm afraid to lose you
Structural experiments/work:
Playing around with concision…
1.
2.
Both leave out the fact that there’s fear every step of the way… these attempts at concision fail to express the entire thought process in the original.
Eric’s dictation of 2nd version:
Playing around with (exposing) deep structure
1.
Content critique/analysis/exploration:
My first reaction: a certain dislike for the thoughts expressed:
1. Because they express things I don’t like: I don’t want all that fear, especially fear of losing a loved one… that’s too much like the fear of death for me, which I also don’t want. It’s bad enough to be afraid of my own death, without having to also be afraid of the deaths (metaphorical or otherwise) of a relationship in my life.
2. Because they seem “dominant paradigm” to me, like “most people” would probably relate to or agree with the progression in the story, or at least agree that it expresses “just how things are”. And I don’t want to think that the story is “how things are,” I want to think that there are multiple stories, and that’s just one of them… or better yet, I used to think this was the only story but now I’m aware that there are others and I’m looking for a better one… or, this is one story, but let me tell you another story… a story about loving freely and abundantly without attachment. Tell the Buddhist story, or something like it.
I want this piece to be more self-aware, to be self-aware enough to criticize itself, and to present a better alternative. [But that’s not Eric’s purpose with it, as we shall see.]
And I’m not sure that my reasons for not liking it is reason enough to say, “No tell me a different story”
And yet, I still find myself wanting that. Since it expresses a progression of attachments… I find myself wanting more consciousness around calling that out, pointing a way through or around those attachments. Do I buy too heavily into the Buddhist story that attachments are the cause of suffering? Eric, personally, seems to find a beauty in the attachments.
He says the intended audience for this piece is: “the kind of person who’s going through (or has gone through) any of what the story outlines. “It’s not really meant to be uplifting… “
Are you saying that it mainly just tells a history? It expresses plainly what actually happened? “Yes. Two people, one moment, one situation.” “I don’t want to go any deeper than that”
So you don’t want to make any statement beyond the history of it, do not want to express any opinion on it? “Exactly.”
Eric leaves the making of meaning around what happens in the story as an exercise to the reader. But it does this by holding up a mirror to the reader, inviting them to react. The meaning, perhaps, is in the reaction, the intersection of this text and the reader, viz. the reader’s culmination up to this moment of all of his or her life choices to date around love, fear, attachment, relationships, etc. And if they were to go away and change or grow, and then come back to the text as a different person, they’ll take away a different meaning.
Artwork idea
Perhaps “a black and white photo of people kissing, with the words superimposed in a way that doesn’t detract from the photo. [I don’t either to detracted from the other. I want both to have greater impact together than apart.]”
Original
The first time I saw you, I was afraid to meet you
The first time I met you, I was afraid to kiss you
The first time I kissed you, I was afraid to hold you
The first time I held you, I was afraid to love you
Now that I love you, I'm afraid to lose you
Structural experiments/work:
Playing around with concision…
1.
See you, meet you, kiss you, hold you, love you… afraid to lose you.
2.
Saw you,
Met you,
Kissed you,
Held you,
Love you…
Afraid to lose you.
Met you,
Kissed you,
Held you,
Love you…
Afraid to lose you.
Both leave out the fact that there’s fear every step of the way… these attempts at concision fail to express the entire thought process in the original.
Eric’s dictation of 2nd version:
The first time I saw you, I was afraid to meet you
After I met you, I was afraid to kiss you
When I kissed you, I was afraid to hold you
After I held you, I was afraid to love you
Now that I love you, I’m afraid to lose you.
After I met you, I was afraid to kiss you
When I kissed you, I was afraid to hold you
After I held you, I was afraid to love you
Now that I love you, I’m afraid to lose you.
Playing around with (exposing) deep structure
1.
Content critique/analysis/exploration:
My first reaction: a certain dislike for the thoughts expressed:
1. Because they express things I don’t like: I don’t want all that fear, especially fear of losing a loved one… that’s too much like the fear of death for me, which I also don’t want. It’s bad enough to be afraid of my own death, without having to also be afraid of the deaths (metaphorical or otherwise) of a relationship in my life.
2. Because they seem “dominant paradigm” to me, like “most people” would probably relate to or agree with the progression in the story, or at least agree that it expresses “just how things are”. And I don’t want to think that the story is “how things are,” I want to think that there are multiple stories, and that’s just one of them… or better yet, I used to think this was the only story but now I’m aware that there are others and I’m looking for a better one… or, this is one story, but let me tell you another story… a story about loving freely and abundantly without attachment. Tell the Buddhist story, or something like it.
I want this piece to be more self-aware, to be self-aware enough to criticize itself, and to present a better alternative. [But that’s not Eric’s purpose with it, as we shall see.]
And I’m not sure that my reasons for not liking it is reason enough to say, “No tell me a different story”
And yet, I still find myself wanting that. Since it expresses a progression of attachments… I find myself wanting more consciousness around calling that out, pointing a way through or around those attachments. Do I buy too heavily into the Buddhist story that attachments are the cause of suffering? Eric, personally, seems to find a beauty in the attachments.
He says the intended audience for this piece is: “the kind of person who’s going through (or has gone through) any of what the story outlines. “It’s not really meant to be uplifting… “
Are you saying that it mainly just tells a history? It expresses plainly what actually happened? “Yes. Two people, one moment, one situation.” “I don’t want to go any deeper than that”
So you don’t want to make any statement beyond the history of it, do not want to express any opinion on it? “Exactly.”
Eric leaves the making of meaning around what happens in the story as an exercise to the reader. But it does this by holding up a mirror to the reader, inviting them to react. The meaning, perhaps, is in the reaction, the intersection of this text and the reader, viz. the reader’s culmination up to this moment of all of his or her life choices to date around love, fear, attachment, relationships, etc. And if they were to go away and change or grow, and then come back to the text as a different person, they’ll take away a different meaning.
“I want you to read it, and I want you to reflect on, at least one time in your life that you can say, ‘Yeah I remember that, with that person’ I’d like them to savor it for a moment.”
“And think, wow that was a great time in my life. And then, on a very personal note, think about how it ended, if it ended. And to walk away with whatever feeling you walk away with. Because you may walk away with a warm fuzzy feeling, and I may walk away thinking, ‘I wish I didn’t read that today’. I would like to put that someplace public where I could watch people read it and see how they react to it.”
What would you get out of that experience? “As me for the person that wrote it, I think I would get a feeling of a sense of accomplishment thinking that I had written something that had touched someone somehow. It may have touched them in a sad way… [but it’s still touching them].” “Each person is going to walk away from the piece with a different feeling, a different thought.”
“And think, wow that was a great time in my life. And then, on a very personal note, think about how it ended, if it ended. And to walk away with whatever feeling you walk away with. Because you may walk away with a warm fuzzy feeling, and I may walk away thinking, ‘I wish I didn’t read that today’. I would like to put that someplace public where I could watch people read it and see how they react to it.”
What would you get out of that experience? “As me for the person that wrote it, I think I would get a feeling of a sense of accomplishment thinking that I had written something that had touched someone somehow. It may have touched them in a sad way… [but it’s still touching them].” “Each person is going to walk away from the piece with a different feeling, a different thought.”
Artwork idea
Perhaps “a black and white photo of people kissing, with the words superimposed in a way that doesn’t detract from the photo. [I don’t either to detracted from the other. I want both to have greater impact together than apart.]”
Came across this from a friend: http://www.ultimateentrepreneur
Who are those kinds of sites geared toward? I purposely don't buy anything that's sold in that "direct mail" looking format... if you scroll all the way to the bottom he's even got a signature at the end of it.
Have you ever bought anything from a site selling with that format?
Who are those kinds of sites geared toward? I purposely don't buy anything that's sold in that "direct mail" looking format... if you scroll all the way to the bottom he's even got a signature at the end of it.
Have you ever bought anything from a site selling with that format?
Recognize this ankle anyone?
So in all of teh intarwebz, Google could only return two results for my search for "compelling gayness":
1. D-cup nude
2. Granny and fatties
LOL now those looked promising. Possibly even made of win.
But no... they are lame wannabe porn sites made for the purpose of referring you to other pay porn sites.
The first one, however, was written by a spambot program... and includes this tantalizing construction: "the most public compelling gayness sectors"...
This I would like to know more about. Plz to be telling me all that you know about the most public compelling gayness sectors.
1. D-cup nude
2. Granny and fatties
LOL now those looked promising. Possibly even made of win.
But no... they are lame wannabe porn sites made for the purpose of referring you to other pay porn sites.
The first one, however, was written by a spambot program... and includes this tantalizing construction: "the most public compelling gayness sectors"...
This I would like to know more about. Plz to be telling me all that you know about the most public compelling gayness sectors.
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