|
|
@@ -10,16 +10,43 @@ description: Today I learned
|
|
|
tags: [art, ideas]
|
|
|
image: https://davidawindham.com/wp-content/themes/daw/img/opengraph_image.jpg
|
|
|
hide_table_of_contents: true
|
|
|
-draft: true
|
|
|
---
|
|
|
|
|
|
-This morning I read what I think is a great essay entitled _Immigrant Song_[^1] written by Alex Hillkurtz[^2].
|
|
|
+This morning I read what I think is a great essay entitled _Immigrant Song_[^1] written by Alex Hillkurtz[^2]. I'm mostly writing this as a reminder to read that essay every so often for inspiration.
|
|
|
|
|
|
<!-- truncate -->
|
|
|
|
|
|
+It's a reflective look at painting as a process and it's Jack Handy deep.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+I'm also writing it because the author is a professional storyboard'ist or whatever it may be called - likely a storyboard[^3] artist. When I first started into web publishing, it always reminded me of creating a storyboard. In college I had a class where my professor had us storyboarding up everything and anything. I remember doing one from a mythology book I had and another from a burger king television ad.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+I remember at one point building out a plugin designed to create and publish storyboards but I never really polished it up and got it off the ground. It's such a skilled specialized form of communication. It's somewhat universal and it's at the heart of our multimedia communications. It'd imagine it closest to comic strip artist and somewhat invaluable to screenwriters[^4]. It's basically what every Power Point, Google Slides, or whatever new fangled flipamadoozie app your using[^5][^6].
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+Every piece of art is a bit of a storyboard sans the format specifics. I recently noted[^7] a fella[^8] who goes to great lengths, like buying antiques, to stage his paintings. [Here's](https://www.williamrochfort.com/previous-work/the-soda-shop) a painting referencing classic comics[^9].
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+But back to the essay. The better and half and I have been joking recently the folks are just cosplaying roles and that reminded me of what the author wrote:
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+>We chose to paint ourselves into existence.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+Don't we though? It's empowering when you really embrace it that way. I don't know if I've just had my head up my arse or if it just requires a certain amount of self awareness or experience, but the feeling of writing the chapters however I'd like is coming more into focus. Perhaps I should storyboard it out for fun.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+>"One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things" – _Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch_[^10] - Henry Miller, 1956.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
<div><br/><br/></div>
|
|
|
---
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
[^1]: _immigrant song_ - https://alexhillkurtzart.substack.com/p/immigrant-song
|
|
|
[^2]: Alex Hillkurtz - https://www.alexhillkurtzart.com/about
|
|
|
+[^3]: storyboard - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storyboard
|
|
|
+[^4]: Final Draft - https://www.finaldraft.com
|
|
|
+[^5]: Storyboard Hero - https://storyboardhero.ai
|
|
|
+[^6]: Boords - https://boords.com
|
|
|
+[^7]: [/notes/art/painters](/notes/art/painters)
|
|
|
+[^8]: William Rochfort - https://www.williamrochfort.com
|
|
|
+[^9]: _The Soda Shop_ - https://www.williamrochfort.com/previous-work/the-soda-shop
|
|
|
+[^10]: _Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch_ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Sur_and_the_Oranges_of_Hieronymus_Bosch
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+
|
