I always hate the blog posts that start off ‘I haven’t posted on here for a while’ however I’m going to do it anyway might as well keep some sort of blogger cliché
I haven’t posted on A-n for a while almost due to not wanting to because I didn’t feel I could. The blogger profile dialogue between Richard Taylor and myself, in all honesty it seemed to occupy much of my time trying to answer those questions not because I didn’t like it but because I found it very difficult. I also got a bit of a wake up call when in email conversation between myself and our website and catalogue designer for degree show. I sent him a email which had terrible sentence structure, waffled on and had no paragraphs. The reply I got was could you please try to make sense.
It did teach me that an about an online profile and the way conversation arise virtually, be it for a residency, job or just general networking for an event. I think maybe a sense of destination with what I’m writing could become really necessary when doing anything over the Internet. With what 7% of communication in language coming from just words 55% is body language and 38% is vocal (pitch, volume, speed, tone).
So maybe virtual profile and a real life profile come hand in hand. Not like I want a complete virtual life like second life or World of Warcraft. I’ve mentioned World of Warcraft twice now in this blog, I don’t play honestly. Although I could become like the guy off South Park that thinks he is really powerful because he is killing all the little kids but actually he is this fat monster behind a desk. It happened to an old friend of mine just before I went on my foundation course he dropped out of A-levels and started working part-time at Iceland but really it was full-time warcraft. I didn’t see him again.
It always brings me to think about a nice little quote from Slavoj Zizek
‘Live entirely in fantasy and you die; live entirely in the real world and it’s dreariness kills you’
Contextually I think I’ve mentioned this slippage between reality and fantasy but I wonder if that fantasy can help reinforce something in reality. I can understand that I could confuse this slippage to be in fact a mechanism to start to interrogate what is real and start thinking philosophical but I don’t think my interests lie within that. If I was reading a fiction, I think the way in which something like this can make you feel or think about something that may not be immediately their straight in front of you but lead on to other things. Is this just down to how the structure of how the book is written operates in a particular manor? Or could it become this with a simple choice of words, which help me, relate to the characters and I go yeah you’re right feeling like this do that I know in the end it’ll be alright.
I started to watch that channel 5 zombie series the walking dead and in the first episode he is trapped in a tank and it’s left on a cliffhanger as if he might die. There are 3 more episodes left in the series of course he won’t die.
