I love creativity. When I’m creating things I feel happier than any other time, whether it’s sewing, or writing, or new systems of computer organisation. I spent a chunk of last night writing, and it was another bout of I must write, the kind I got every day for two years straight, the kind that made those the happiest years of my life. Sitting down and bashing out a scene, however rough, in that mad dash of clicking keys and words springing up just at the right moment … it’s the best thing in the world.
I spent much of my Christmas holiday creating a corset. I actually drafted a blog post about it, but it was far too boring, so I’ll just say that it’s partly made of old jeans, and has cost me about £5. I’m not entirely sure it’ll fit–it was intended as a mock up that got really pretty really fast–but creating it is fun in itself. Seeing bits of thread and fabric come together to make something recognisable, something I’ve formed from scratch by analysing pictures, is incredibly satisfying.
It makes me happy to see other people being creative, too, to a fairly ridiculous degree. Anyone following their art and enjoying it makes me smile. There’s a video on Youtube of a couple playing the guitar together and they’re so obviously having massive amounts of fun that it actually brings tears to my eyes. When my friends start gushing about their writing, it makes me beam as if I’m the one with something to be proud of.
I feel dreadfully sorry for people who don’t have an art. Even if you’re not good at it, it’s something valuable, and personal, and something to do with life that’s more meaningful than watching tv.
Surely art can’t be more meaningful than watching THIS:
http://winter-is-coming.net/2011/01/latest-thrones-teaser-airs-on-hbo/
While your Internet is working, of course. The first time I watched it, the video paused every five seconds, so the whole effect was ruined.
What I mean to say is, WHY AM I SO YOUNG? WHY DIDN’T I GET BORN EARLIER SO I COULD DEVOTE MY LIFE TO THE PRODUCTION OF THISSSS for seven or eight years.
I really can’t see how anything I create can ever measure up to what’s going on right now. D: Maybe in a few decades.
Yeah, it’s true. The poor things. I have so many ideas and so many projects going on, there’s just no time to watch TV. Unless I’m knitting. That I can multitask.
The corset sounds really amazing, though. Wish you did the blog post.
You have an early start, Carr. We’re the next generation, remember. It’ll work out. One day there will be 17 year olds going ‘WHY AM I SO YOUNG? WHY DIDN’T I GET BORN EARLIER SO I COULD DEVOTE MY LIFE TO THE PRODUCTION OF THISSSSSS’ over your stuff.
But yeah, I was inaccurate when I said anything is more meaningful than tv. Most tv. Not AGOT. Unless it sucks.
Khat, knitting is amazing for watching tv with! I may also do the blog on the corset anyway. ^^