If you've read anything I've done in this class so far, you probably have heard me go on about how I am not an artist. And I stand by that point, I can not draw, paint, sketch, or whatever verb you can come up with a picture or anything. It's weird considering my Mom draws with colored pencils for a living, but obviously none of that talent was bestowed on to me. No, I get to toil around drawing stick figures for the rest of time, woe is me.
Combine that with the fact that I only got myself a iPhone (or any variant of a smartphone) around two weeks ago, and I can say I haven't done any sort of art on The Cloud.
Of course, that can change depending on your definition of art.
While I do not draw anything, I do sometimes write. It's never anything professional or super profound, but I have written small pieces on the internet. Heck, in one case I accidentally started a giant continuity for a community because I got bored and decided to write.
For the last week I've been watching a streaming site called Twitch attempt to play a simple game of Pokemon Red. With 80,000 people playing, it's been taking a while, but due to the chaotic nature of everything, a lot of injokes have sprouted up. And just last night, I wrote a small humorous piece on the reaction of one character to seeing all the madness going on around him. It was short, but I do end up writing things here and there. And I'm being told it's generally well written (Even if I make a stupid grammatical mistake because I wrote it at 11:45 PM...) so when it comes to writing, that has escaped out onto the Cloud in some ways.
As for our third category, photography. This is something I just can't get into, which is weird because, once again, my mom has taken it up in the last 6 years and is pretty good at what she does. Even though I have the iPhone now, I won't start taking a ton of pictures. As I said before, I do make videos, but that seems to be a totally different realm entirely.
To sum it up, my experience with art really comes down to writing (and music but hey, that is a different area) and not much else. I can't say for sure, but that's just the way it is.
Dmitri!
ReplyDeleteWriting IS art, so you're totally an artist. Your mom passed down her drawing skills to you through passing down her creativity. I love to write too and I think that people like us (people who are probably too busy to write a book at this point in life) should share their writing on the web as much as possible. I think its awesome that you've posted stuff for the public to see, that takes guts...even if you are behind a computer screen. Write on and rock on! haha :)
-Leah
I think art can be expressed in many different ways. Sometimes in my life i am lacking time to create art so i express it within my cooking. I am always creating new recipes or altering old ones. And after i cook i am always looking for new and fun ways to display my food. I also feel like writing is one the greatest forms of self expression and definitely should be considered art. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but i feel like the words used to describe a picture could be just as enticing.
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