I've gone Wilde

The artist is the creator of beautiful things.

To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.

The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.

The highest, as the lowest, form of criticism is a mode of autobiography.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

The nineteenth century dislike of Realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass.

The nineteenth century dislike of Romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass.

The moral life of man forms part of the subject-matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.

No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved.

No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art.

Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.

From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician. From the point of view of feeling, the actor's craft is the type.

All art is at once surface and symbol.

Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.

When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

All art is quite useless.

Ok so the days are getting colder and like much Oregon weather I'm never sure if I should be wearing a light jacket or a pea coat and scarf! It's such bizarre climate like this that makes me wonder when global warming will fully take affect and we can say good bye to humanity as a whole.

I've been working long hours on a 30 Sec experimental video in which I choose two words (cold and wet) and tried to make something out of it. It's not meant to make sense in the way of a normal story structure (most anything experimental film doesn't) so I am taking a stab at something new and seeing what happens.

In other news:



After some talks with my mother I am about 90% to 95% sure that I will get a plane ticket to NYC for my 23rd birthday this year, So I would be spending Christmas and new years 2009 over there with my best friend ZackeryMichael.com haha (you can actually follow that link, its a real website for his photo steeze).

I've also found some rather interesting videos and websites etc. The first being this one called "Mortified" which is actually fairly relevant to blogging. Did you ever as a teenager or kid write random shit that when you find today, you go, "Oh man what the fuck was wrong with me" haha Well someone took that concept and compiled all sorts of raves and rants into a book, a website and now live performance pieces, its really funny and interesting and I myself know I have some box of random love notes from high school hiding in my mothers garage somewhere. Anyhow, here is a small video from the site. You can just go directly as well here: http://www.getmortified.com/

// The Mortified Shoebox Show //



Turning to election stuff (because you should all be interested) I found this rather fun site that lets people vote for America's new president from all over the world. It's a what if kind of deal, and ironically only like 12% of the worlds vote favor McCain haha but still, its not an official poll or anything, just a concept. Feel free to see how the world feels about our elections, here: http://www.iftheworldcouldvote.com/

I also found this rather disturbing video showing off McCains temper haha kinda sp00ky!


the man is nuts.

and I leave people with this random image which I probably laughed at for a good 10 min.



hahahaaaaaaaa oh that saucy minx of a terrible terrible woman.


alright, well I am off to h/w and laundery and whatever else a fun filled Oct. evening has to offer.