Filed under: Ponderings | Tags: adulthood, back, first post, restart, transition, yeahthatgreenville
Well. Here we go again. This blog has been around a while. Like, 2007 a while. 7 years ago I was 20 and had no clue what real life would be like. Now I’m 27. I’m pretty much a straight up lady at this point.
I wrote this next part in the “about me” section when I very officially “relaunched” in 2009:
“I am a 22 year old guh living (for now) in the holding tank that is Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I just graduated from college, which puts me right in the eye of the single most confusing and exciting storm I’ve ever witnessed.
I abuse Jasmine and Earl Grey tea, and don’t even get me started on honey. Honey is my cocaine. I Stumble through StumbleUpon too much, always have to have moisturizer in my car, and I actually believe that quartz crystals magnify positive energy (maybe it’s just because they’re so damn pretty). I love feeling uncomfortable (how else do we grow?), cheese (the funkier the better– try Valdeón or Cambozola, my fellow cheesers), and Joni Mitchell.”
Some things never change.
This blog was started during school,
but ultimately brought great comfort to me during the inevitable upheaval of my post-graduate mind. And WOO! What a clusterfuck that was. But oh, oh, oh. Such a beautiful one.
Will the blog prove itself again a worthy outlet for me as I transition into womanhood?
I suppose THAT– like most internal matters — is going to be completely and entirely up to me.
–
M
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 1977, animation, art, awesome, bead, beads, destruction, evolution, gujarat, gujarati, ishu, ishu patel, patel, stop animation
Sam and Hilary and I found a list of the top 150 Animated Films of all time and started watching clips from them.
This is a SWEET animated short from 1977 by Ishu Patel, a Gujarati artist, called “The Bead Game.” It mimics the evolution of the world through the act of destruction. Starting with a tiny cell, Patel depicts the destructive tendency of nature, as each new, greater creature destroys the last. However, this process is never ending, and as each creature gains intelligence, the destruction continues to occur. The film ends with a depiction of the atomic bomb. Patel seems to be making a commentary on the human condition– to put it plain and simple,we might be complex and intelligent and flash-forward and technologically advanced, but it doesn’t matter, we ain’t any different than that tiny cell— we’re all going to fucking die. It’s kind of bleak, but hey. I like it.
It’s just freaking awesome. Watch it, now.
I demand you!
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