capturing creativity
>Salvador Dali, the great surrealist, used to grab ideas for paintings from the very fertile semi-sleep state we call the hypnagogic state. He’d lie on a sofa and hold a spoon in one hand, balancing it on the edge of a glass placed on the door. Just as he’d drift off to sleep, he’d release the spoon, and the sound of the spoon hitting the glass would awaken him. Immediately, he’d sketch the bizarre hypnagogic images he was seeing.
>Anyone can do this. We all have bizarre perceptual experiences in those moments before we fall fully asleep. Dali simply developed a way to seize some of them.
~jeff
July 18th, 2005 at 10:59 pm
…it was 3am last saturday morning when i thought i could swap out a variable and replaced “spoon” with “Fifteenth Beer”. the results were far less than spectacular. when i awoke to the peppery sting of an emergency room doctor removing shards of glass from the sole of my right foot, i grabbed a pencil and slip of paper and began to sketch the object that was becoming increasingly clear as the fog settled before my mind’s eye. it was a sauce pan with a built in strainer in the lid. ouch.
but all is not lost as i have been ‘capturing my creativity’ to find new and better ways to get blood and beer stains out of white berber. and good news: this friday night, i buy cans. next wednesday,.. it’s lit cigarettes. the following friday,.. my 2 1/2 year-old niece.
jeff,.. i may need you to come by around midnight to get a good mix…
July 19th, 2005 at 8:32 pm
Jimmy is the best guitar player I know, too bad about his copious amount of crazy