Every now and then I try to construct the most beautiful face that I can; I have finished with two different 'most beautiful female faces' (one which I definitely prefer over the other), and recently, 'the most beautiful girl-child' face, and 'most handsome male face'.
It made me quite happy, I felt productive.
Using the mind as a canvas is difficult.
I don't think I'd be able to do something like this. I'd try to do it piece by piece and fail, because I'd lose my grasp on pieces that I worked on and then moved away from. I'd try too hard to hold on to those parts, say, the nose, and then just forget them while I was working on the eyes or something.
I'd have to like, let it all pop into my head at once, and just keep trying that until I fell upon the ideal. It'd be fairly random.
Hmm, opposite here. With the exception of the 'beautiful girl face', I would have a difficult time isolating specific features. At best, Handsome Male has a very specific nose and sharper jawline than I generally imagine for a 'protaganist', Beautiful woman has very specific eyes, lashes, nails, and hair.
What I'm saying is that I'd find it difficult to do it piece by piece. Sorry, I was unclear.
What I find interesting, is that if most people were to try and put that face into some physical medium like clay, they wouldn't be able to. They'd have WAY LESS of that face than they thought they did. Do you think you'd be one of those people, or do you think that you have it all?
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@ Zonuagal: not far off, except it isn't done physically like that, though there are 'seeds'.
Beautiful Girl is based off of a Petty Pin-up Girl, that I thought was almost there but not quite. Turns out she would have been perfect younger and with a different nose and smaller lips.
I love pausing a conversation and looking at how we got where we are from what we were talking about. I love chains. Chains of thoughts. Associative thinking. I love that stuff.
How do you guys think? I'm just going to leave that question there and then go to bed.
My thoughts are pretty simple, most of the time it's either literal text on paper in my head, or me speaking to myself, but in a voice that isn't my own. It's usually the second one only when other people are going to be hearing or reading the thought. Like for this, I had to "hear" it in my head before I wrote it. Same for when I say things. I have to hear how it sounds first.
but if I'm just thinking to myself, most of the time, it's just text on paper.
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This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals–sounds that say listen to this, it is important.
Every now and then I try to construct the most beautiful face that I can; I have finished with two different 'most beautiful female faces' (one which I definitely prefer over the other), and recently, 'the most beautiful girl-child' face, and 'most handsome male face'.
It made me quite happy, I felt productive.
Using the mind as a canvas is difficult.
I don't think I'd be able to do something like this. I'd try to do it piece by piece and fail, because I'd lose my grasp on pieces that I worked on and then moved away from. I'd try too hard to hold on to those parts, say, the nose, and then just forget them while I was working on the eyes or something.
I'd have to like, let it all pop into my head at once, and just keep trying that until I fell upon the ideal. It'd be fairly random.
Hmm, opposite here. With the exception of the 'beautiful girl face', I would have a difficult time isolating specific features. At best, Handsome Male has a very specific nose and sharper jawline than I generally imagine for a 'protaganist', Beautiful woman has very specific eyes, lashes, nails, and hair.
What I'm saying is that I'd find it difficult to do it piece by piece. Sorry, I was unclear.
What I find interesting, is that if most people were to try and put that face into some physical medium like clay, they wouldn't be able to. They'd have WAY LESS of that face than they thought they did. Do you think you'd be one of those people, or do you think that you have it all?
Some faces I have gotten quite close (drawing, that is); if I really spent time I could render some of these faces. Being that Beautiful Girl has a pre-existing base, it shouldn't be impossible to draw her adequately enough that it looks like her, if not beautiful enough. 'Leader Boy' and 'Young Blonde Boy' I could probably draw; Leader Boy would take effort but I think I've drawn Young Blonde Boy a few times. I can Draw Beautiful Woman's eyes, hair and lips, but I've never been satisfied with any jawline or nose that I've drawn. Fairly sure I've completed some competent stabs at her though, I was just disappointed I couldn't render her as beautifully as I imagined her. Haven't even tried drawing Handsome Man since I finished conjuring that face a few days ago.
When reading something I always have a very specific voice for how I hear it in my head. I have had this same voice since I was a kid. I can't reproduce the voice myself. It isn't mine.
However the traces of me are there. How things are inflected etc align with my sense of humor/drama, but pronounced perfectly. I like to imagine it is the voice of better-me.
it's a work that ends itself. but it's not compact like the other words that i like. PACT! there's a nice compact word that ends itself and is just solid. it's like a brick. it makes me think of something short and stout and powerful and STOUT that's another good one.
okay
I'm done now
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How do you guys think? I'm just going to leave that question there and then go to bed.
My thoughts are pretty simple, most of the time it's either literal text on paper in my head, or me speaking to myself, but in a voice that isn't my own. It's usually the second one only when other people are going to be hearing or reading the thought. Like for this, I had to "hear" it in my head before I wrote it. Same for when I say things. I have to hear how it sounds first.
but if I'm just thinking to myself, most of the time, it's just text on paper.
are you for real? you think in printed text?
I think almost entirely in internal monologue with occasional images, which up till now I assumed most people did.
How do you guys think? I'm just going to leave that question there and then go to bed.
My thoughts are pretty simple, most of the time it's either literal text on paper in my head, or me speaking to myself, but in a voice that isn't my own. It's usually the second one only when other people are going to be hearing or reading the thought. Like for this, I had to "hear" it in my head before I wrote it. Same for when I say things. I have to hear how it sounds first.
but if I'm just thinking to myself, most of the time, it's just text on paper.
are you for real? you think in printed text?
I think almost entirely in internal monologue with occasional images, which up till now I assumed most people did.
it's not really consistent like that
it's more
I'll see certain words in my head. maybe every third word or every other word. it's just kinda there, in big letters, in my head. the words on the page are the significant ones. words like "and" aren't there, for example.
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When reading something I always have a very specific voice for how I hear it in my head. I have had this same voice since I was a kid. I can't reproduce the voice myself. It isn't mine.
However the traces of me are there. How things are inflected etc align with my sense of humor/drama, but pronounced perfectly. I like to imagine it is the voice of better-me.
Similar. A lot of voices that I think in, meant to be myself, aren't my own. These voices change; switching to a man's voice isn't uncommon.
How do you guys think? I'm just going to leave that question there and then go to bed.
My thoughts are pretty simple, most of the time it's either literal text on paper in my head, or me speaking to myself, but in a voice that isn't my own. It's usually the second one only when other people are going to be hearing or reading the thought. Like for this, I had to "hear" it in my head before I wrote it. Same for when I say things. I have to hear how it sounds first.
but if I'm just thinking to myself, most of the time, it's just text on paper.
are you for real? you think in printed text?
I think almost entirely in internal monologue with occasional images, which up till now I assumed most people did.
it's not really consistent like that
it's more
I'll see certain words in my head. maybe every third word or every other word. it's just kinda there, in big letters, in my head. the words on the page are the significant ones. words like "and" aren't there, for example.
Scrum we are remarkably similar. See words in nice big text as I think them.
When reading something I always have a very specific voice for how I hear it in my head. I have had this same voice since I was a kid. I can't reproduce the voice myself. It isn't mine.
However the traces of me are there. How things are inflected etc align with my sense of humor/drama, but pronounced perfectly. I like to imagine it is the voice of better-me.
Similar. A lot of voices that I think in, meant to be myself, aren't my own. These voices change; switching to a man's voice isn't uncommon.
I identify the voice that I think in as calvin from calvin and hobbes, because that's the voice that I always gave to him when I read his speech bubbles. it isn't exactly a child's voice. it's very weird. Hobbes' voice was just a tad deeper than calvin's, and my thoughts switch to his voice sometimes.
When reading something I always have a very specific voice for how I hear it in my head. I have had this same voice since I was a kid. I can't reproduce the voice myself. It isn't mine.
However the traces of me are there. How things are inflected etc align with my sense of humor/drama, but pronounced perfectly. I like to imagine it is the voice of better-me.
Similar. A lot of voices that I think in, meant to be myself, aren't my own. These voices change; switching to a man's voice isn't uncommon.
Mine is always the same. It can be bothersome in the beginning of a presentation when I've thought out this amazing speech but then I start talking and whoops wow my voice is not as good as my internal voice.
Luckily I got that public speaking flow and still rock it
I just bought my first pair of boat shoes, and I can't tell if they're too big for me
they fit really well width-wise, but when I walk, my heel lift out of the back
is that supposed to happen?
They should probably fit a bit loose, I know my sperry topsiders do. BUt if your heel is actually starting to come out of the back, no. That is too big
I just bought my first pair of boat shoes, and I can't tell if they're too big for me
they fit really well width-wise, but when I walk, my heel lift out of the back
is that supposed to happen?
boat shoes are the best
I wear them to school every day (private school)
my first pair were winter sperries though, with fur inside, so they were a bit slipper-like and my foot would slip out but BOY were they comfy
but my current summer/spring pair don't slip out all that much. maybe a little, now that I think about it.
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Honestly, I don't have a very good sense of what my voice actually sounds like. Either recorded, or what I personally hear.
Weirdest personal voice: Mandy from Grim Adventures. Not even being particularly mean. Just using the voice. No wait, weirder; GRIM. I don't know why, I never watched the show much to begin with.
I just bought my first pair of boat shoes, and I can't tell if they're too big for me
they fit really well width-wise, but when I walk, my heel lift out of the back
is that supposed to happen?
They should probably fit a bit loose, I know my sperry topsiders do. BUt if your heel is actually starting to come out of the back, no. That is too big
This is the kind that I got!
sounds like they're too big :<
thank you!!
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Good night Scrummy.
I too am heading for bed, good discussion though. Sleep well, everyone.
I tend to do very quick leap-frogs and spider-webs with the thoughts in my head. I guess it is harder to explain but I immediately gauge my primary thought than address all other factors linked to it. This includes imagining people's reactions, planning for those said reactions, as well as visualizing different situations that could spring from said action. I once had a college classmate ask me in all seriousness, "Are you always thinking five steps down the road," to which my response was, "Yeah... You don't?"
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Scrum won't read this but: maybe make it a thread?
I tend to do very quick leap-frogs and spider-webs with the thoughts in my head. I guess it is harder to explain but I immediately gauge my primary thought than address all other factors linked to it. This includes imagining people's reactions, planning for those said reactions, as well as visualizing different situations that could spring from said action. I once had a college classmate ask me in all seriousness, "Are you always thinking five steps down the road," to which my response was, "Yeah... You don't?"
high-five for thinking ahead.
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One day I will write that book. Perhaps that day comes before your day of reading.
What I'm saying is that I'd find it difficult to do it piece by piece. Sorry, I was unclear.
What I find interesting, is that if most people were to try and put that face into some physical medium like clay, they wouldn't be able to. They'd have WAY LESS of that face than they thought they did. Do you think you'd be one of those people, or do you think that you have it all?
Beautiful Girl is based off of a Petty Pin-up Girl, that I thought was almost there but not quite. Turns out she would have been perfect younger and with a different nose and smaller lips.
I love pausing a conversation and looking at how we got where we are from what we were talking about. I love chains. Chains of thoughts. Associative thinking. I love that stuff.
Gah. I'm just dumping my brain into this thread.
Or maybe I have just been watching too much twilight zone
By thought game i mean the most beautiful person
people usually don't notice, and when they do they seem to think I'm just being poetic instead of indulging a tic, so it's never too bad
i find videos like this pretty inspiring, actually. it gives me a great example of shit not to do or expect. things to brace myself for.
My thoughts are pretty simple, most of the time it's either literal text on paper in my head, or me speaking to myself, but in a voice that isn't my own. It's usually the second one only when other people are going to be hearing or reading the thought. Like for this, I had to "hear" it in my head before I wrote it. Same for when I say things. I have to hear how it sounds first.
but if I'm just thinking to myself, most of the time, it's just text on paper.
man I wish he taught my classes
whoa
A good percentage of interesting things begin with the phrase, "I have this thing..."
just an observation
"it all started after I read HOW TO RAP: THE ART AND SCIENCE OF THE HIP-HOP MC..."
Some faces I have gotten quite close (drawing, that is); if I really spent time I could render some of these faces. Being that Beautiful Girl has a pre-existing base, it shouldn't be impossible to draw her adequately enough that it looks like her, if not beautiful enough. 'Leader Boy' and 'Young Blonde Boy' I could probably draw; Leader Boy would take effort but I think I've drawn Young Blonde Boy a few times. I can Draw Beautiful Woman's eyes, hair and lips, but I've never been satisfied with any jawline or nose that I've drawn. Fairly sure I've completed some competent stabs at her though, I was just disappointed I couldn't render her as beautifully as I imagined her. Haven't even tried drawing Handsome Man since I finished conjuring that face a few days ago.
When reading something I always have a very specific voice for how I hear it in my head. I have had this same voice since I was a kid. I can't reproduce the voice myself. It isn't mine.
However the traces of me are there. How things are inflected etc align with my sense of humor/drama, but pronounced perfectly. I like to imagine it is the voice of better-me.
quirk is a really good word
quirk quirk quirk
it's a work that ends itself. but it's not compact like the other words that i like. PACT! there's a nice compact word that ends itself and is just solid. it's like a brick. it makes me think of something short and stout and powerful and STOUT that's another good one.
okay
I'm done now
are you for real? you think in printed text?
I think almost entirely in internal monologue with occasional images, which up till now I assumed most people did.
this is actually why I got good flow 8)
it's not really consistent like that
it's more
I'll see certain words in my head. maybe every third word or every other word. it's just kinda there, in big letters, in my head. the words on the page are the significant ones. words like "and" aren't there, for example.
Similar. A lot of voices that I think in, meant to be myself, aren't my own. These voices change; switching to a man's voice isn't uncommon.
Scrum we are remarkably similar. See words in nice big text as I think them.
I just bought my first pair of boat shoes, and I can't tell if they're too big for me
they fit really well width-wise, but when I walk, my heel lift out of the back
is that supposed to happen?
how do they feel when you're on the water
I identify the voice that I think in as calvin from calvin and hobbes, because that's the voice that I always gave to him when I read his speech bubbles. it isn't exactly a child's voice. it's very weird. Hobbes' voice was just a tad deeper than calvin's, and my thoughts switch to his voice sometimes.
Mine is always the same. It can be bothersome in the beginning of a presentation when I've thought out this amazing speech but then I start talking and whoops wow my voice is not as good as my internal voice.
Luckily I got that public speaking flow and still rock it
They should probably fit a bit loose, I know my sperry topsiders do. BUt if your heel is actually starting to come out of the back, no. That is too big
boat shoes are the best
I wear them to school every day (private school)
my first pair were winter sperries though, with fur inside, so they were a bit slipper-like and my foot would slip out but BOY were they comfy
but my current summer/spring pair don't slip out all that much. maybe a little, now that I think about it.
Weirdest personal voice: Mandy from Grim Adventures. Not even being particularly mean. Just using the voice. No wait, weirder; GRIM. I don't know why, I never watched the show much to begin with.
vann hi5 for being similar thoughtwise
good night SE++
we will do this again
This is the kind that I got!
sounds like they're too big :<
thank you!!
I too am heading for bed, good discussion though. Sleep well, everyone.
and everybody needs to read more shakespeare
t shank: how tight do you have your laces?? i gotta cinch mine down otherwise the side of my ankle gets rubbed raw
Good night to you lucky sleepers, you
I tend to do very quick leap-frogs and spider-webs with the thoughts in my head. I guess it is harder to explain but I immediately gauge my primary thought than address all other factors linked to it. This includes imagining people's reactions, planning for those said reactions, as well as visualizing different situations that could spring from said action. I once had a college classmate ask me in all seriousness, "Are you always thinking five steps down the road," to which my response was, "Yeah... You don't?"
my scholarship application went through for university of oregon
$4000 woot
I might be browsing from my phone.
(Yes I will do that tomorrow!)
high-five for thinking ahead.
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