tune back in
Certainly these wonderful modern machines have taken the tedium out of sitting around and waiting, and they help pass the time while traveling. But if you can get out of the habit of using these things and really connect to the world around you, that will be much more helpful to your improvement as an artist. Those times when you are just sitting there with nothing else going on, immersed in the people and happenings around you are when you really get to see special things: people just going about their ordinary business. That's when people are at their most fascinating. You'll never get to observe all that much of the world when you're busy rushing from place to place so that times when you're sitting and "doing nothing" are actually prime observation opportunities.
-- Temple of the Seven Camels on Carrying A Sketchbook
Breaking my iPod addiction is one of my short time goals. Engage. Engage. Engage.
posted by stu willis at
10:39 pm
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last w/e with the able assistance of herft i bought a pushbike and have been riding it around town ever since. has been so much fun.
very different to a car for obvious reasons including being more attached to the immediate environment. you can hear, feel, see and smell (did i leave any senses out?) everything whereas in my car all i can hear is the cr4p rock JJJ plays, all i feel is bored, all i see is a windscreen double-coated in grime (apparently the passenger side is worse) and all I smell is a combination of big mac, soccer bag, mouldy amp tolex and jamie nimmo's spew. and that's just in the peugot. in the lancer... whoa!
of course i was going to buy a bike.
tenuous link to the original ipod post but hey. it's about environment and awareness. like everything is these days.
i'm just excited about the bike.
David "Landis" Sattout
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