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.
I mean, synesthesia, like all things, exists on a greyscale, and what Muse has can be considered a very mild sort of it
I have a similar sort of thing where I conceptualize places, events, narratives in terms of objects positioned in relationship to one another
like when I try to visualize a plot, I think of a room in which one man is standing next to another man and is looking down at his hands, while the first man keeps his feet at shoulder-width and looks straight ahead. Or it could be a bee hanging out on the window while a refrigerator lies tipped over on the other side of the room. Depends on what I'm thinking of!
Hey, guys, want to play a fun game?
How do you visualize a year?
For me, it is a circle. The end/beginning of the year is at the bottom of the circle, and it progresses counter-clockwise, so from the bottom of the circle it goes right to January, then up until July, then back down to December on the lefthand side
I mean, synesthesia, like all things, exists on a greyscale, and what Muse has can be considered a very mild sort of it
I have a similar sort of thing where I conceptualize places, events, narratives in terms of objects positioned in relationship to one another
like when I try to visualize a plot, I think of a room in which one man is standing next to another man and is looking down at his hands, while the first man keeps his feet at shoulder-width and looks straight ahead. Or it could be a bee hanging out on the window while a refrigerator lies tipped over on the other side of the room. Depends on what I'm thinking of!
Hey, guys, want to play a fun game?
How do you visualize a year?
For me, it is a circle. The end/beginning of the year is at the bottom of the circle, and it progresses counter-clockwise, so from the bottom of the circle it goes right to January, then up until July, then back down to December on the lefthand side
The first image I come up with is a long, narrow field divided into four sections of different seasonal conditions
I have a thing where I tend to associate certain colors with words
also, for one reason or another, when I am imagining a scenario, even if it's one that involves real people that I really know, the images my brain creates are more like cartoons than photographs. I imagine in animation instead of live action.
The poetry I have liked best has all been by Edgar Allan Poe, because there is a specific Poe voice (that is totally badass, love it, even if it is in a British accent and Poe not being British), and because I like just how . . . textured his poetry is.
I am not talking about an subtext or anything, just the crafting on the most superficial level is heavily textured.
Poe's poetry is like a fine Oriental rug, or an African print. I can't decide.
It's like you have some kind of weird "synesthesia-but-not-really" and I'm so in love with the way you are describing things, Muse
sorry
I'm not creepy
carry on
Music and Poetry I often think of as being structured in visual terms. Most sonnets and limericks would have a very simple 'pattern', as would most lullabies. Here is the 'spike', here is the 'dip', see how the spikes and dips mirror each other from stanza to stanza? The more complex the rhyme scheme and syllable count, the more I like it, the more complex the visual pattern is. So far, I find Poe's work to be very complexly patterned. The pattern however, as perceived seen vertically, is like a texture.
Actual music I like to think of as not just having spikes and dips, but layers of different colors, lain out in rows and only once you superimpose them on top of each other do you see the spikes and dips.
From the comments by the video's creator: Just look at it as dark, pretentious philosophy taking the place of the usual dialogue. It's just supposed to be silly, not something to learn from. I won't be held responsible for people learning anything.
Oh so is this where people are talking about interesting things????
Pity the only thing I have to add right now is that Stephen fry's voice is angelic.
Also that I visualize a year as a horizontal line.
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A year is a vertical column; it is white, with thin horizontal black bars. The passage of time is perceived as color filling that column from top to bottom. Thinking about it right now, that color is a warm red.
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at first I was like wow I really like that, you are visualizing the passage of time from year to year as something being passed to the right, something moving
and then I realized you were talkin' bout mary jane
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also, for one reason or another, when I am imagining a scenario, even if it's one that involves real people that I really know, the images my brain creates are more like cartoons than photographs. I imagine in animation instead of live action.
Same here.
I think simply because cartoons are more visually simple than live-action, therefore there is less that needs to be imagined. Backgrounds are just as often not 'animated', however.
I do not think I have synesthesia, even a mild case. I probably just think funny.
Exception being that certain colors (reds and purples) 'taste' good. When playing games like Bejeweled I especially like to line up the reds. Grand Theft Auto I liked to run over the ladies in red because I like red and wanted to 'get' the red.
Oh so is this where people are talking about interesting things????
Pity the only thing I have to add right now is that Stephen fry's voice is angelic.
Also that I visualize a year as a horizontal line.
yes you have found the SE++ treasure trove of interesting conversation of the night! your prize is losing sleep.
Stephen is amazing and I could listen to him talk for hours
and hi5 for horizontal line years
It is already 3! I have class at 9! Truly I am doomed.
I suppose it goes worth mentioning that my horizontal line is very designed. It isn't a long line, it could be placed on a horizontal sheet of printer paper. Zooming in on the various events placed along this timeline reveal very considered blocks of type and careful placement of line.
at first I was like wow I really like that, you are visualizing the passage of time from year to year as something being passed to the right, something moving
and then I realized you were talkin' bout mary jane
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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'.
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.
I also can sort of hallucinate, but that's life. My mind kinda pulls a switcheroo with my eyes.
I was out smoking one afternoon recently and I "saw" a big Quetzalcoatl-looking snake about four feet tall and maybe sixty feet long moving through the field out my backdoor
I can tell them apart from reality, though, so it's mostly just fun and sometimes thought-provoking (it can be horrifying when they're bad things, though. Seeing people in my room and hearing someone saying my voice always throws me for a loop.)
Like I can't compose any writing in my head, either. I have to get it all down or else I stress that I will forget specific words, because I really believe that specific words are what make works of literature so powerful. If we just inserted synonyms for everything in a piece, it wouldn't have the same impact. Words can mean the same thing and have a completely different implication.
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.
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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'.
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Never read Othello, wasn't aware of the context.
authors rarely know anything about their own work. strange, but true.
I have a similar sort of thing where I conceptualize places, events, narratives in terms of objects positioned in relationship to one another
like when I try to visualize a plot, I think of a room in which one man is standing next to another man and is looking down at his hands, while the first man keeps his feet at shoulder-width and looks straight ahead. Or it could be a bee hanging out on the window while a refrigerator lies tipped over on the other side of the room. Depends on what I'm thinking of!
Hey, guys, want to play a fun game?
How do you visualize a year?
For me, it is a circle. The end/beginning of the year is at the bottom of the circle, and it progresses counter-clockwise, so from the bottom of the circle it goes right to January, then up until July, then back down to December on the lefthand side
Well, I wrote an entire research essay about how Hamlet had some gay undertones.
I guess I'm part of the problem.
haha damn ,man, if you believe one of my undergrad professors half of shakespeare's plays were ALSO ads for gay prostitutes!
the bitch of it is i'm pretty sure he's right
I can't tell if this is a joke, or
The first image I come up with is a long, narrow field divided into four sections of different seasonal conditions
I have a thing where I tend to associate certain colors with words
also, for one reason or another, when I am imagining a scenario, even if it's one that involves real people that I really know, the images my brain creates are more like cartoons than photographs. I imagine in animation instead of live action.
http://www.audioentropy.com/
Part of me wants to hear this theory.
fuck you people and your interesting conversations
http://www.audioentropy.com/
a line
and whatever month it is is currently above the line, at its relative position
so like
say it's January
January
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I doubt that will format correctly but it's a rough indication of what I see
and then that line just disappears when a new year starts. it's a black line, with some boldface type, on a greyish background.
Music and Poetry I often think of as being structured in visual terms. Most sonnets and limericks would have a very simple 'pattern', as would most lullabies. Here is the 'spike', here is the 'dip', see how the spikes and dips mirror each other from stanza to stanza? The more complex the rhyme scheme and syllable count, the more I like it, the more complex the visual pattern is. So far, I find Poe's work to be very complexly patterned. The pattern however, as perceived seen vertically, is like a texture.
Actual music I like to think of as not just having spikes and dips, but layers of different colors, lain out in rows and only once you superimpose them on top of each other do you see the spikes and dips.
From the comments by the video's creator: Just look at it as dark, pretentious philosophy taking the place of the usual dialogue. It's just supposed to be silly, not something to learn from. I won't be held responsible for people learning anything.
no, it's pretty much how i see things
i have a very holistic view of life
Pity the only thing I have to add right now is that Stephen fry's voice is angelic.
Also that I visualize a year as a horizontal line.
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yes you have found the SE++ treasure trove of interesting conversation of the night! your prize is losing sleep.
Stephen is amazing and I could listen to him talk for hours
and hi5 for horizontal line years
just pass that shit to the right, damn
like
warm and cool colors
I LOVE THAT SHIT
at first I was like wow I really like that, you are visualizing the passage of time from year to year as something being passed to the right, something moving
and then I realized you were talkin' bout mary jane
Same here.
I think simply because cartoons are more visually simple than live-action, therefore there is less that needs to be imagined. Backgrounds are just as often not 'animated', however.
I do not think I have synesthesia, even a mild case. I probably just think funny.
Exception being that certain colors (reds and purples) 'taste' good. When playing games like Bejeweled I especially like to line up the reds. Grand Theft Auto I liked to run over the ladies in red because I like red and wanted to 'get' the red.
It is already 3! I have class at 9! Truly I am doomed.
I suppose it goes worth mentioning that my horizontal line is very designed. It isn't a long line, it could be placed on a horizontal sheet of printer paper. Zooming in on the various events placed along this timeline reveal very considered blocks of type and careful placement of line.
wait when did we start talking about spider-man
http://www.audioentropy.com/
I see a year as a gradual decay. Not of something specific, but as a slow... erasure?
More a process than an object.
Why I fear the ocean.
My last final is on the last day too. I'm not staying over the summer. My apartment lease doesn't start until August 20th either. Weak.
The book is my mind.
I am quite happy with that cause it means my Sandman paper was good enough
Dear satan I wish for this or maybe some of this....oh and I'm a medium or a large.
It made me quite happy, I felt productive.
I just stare into the infinite dread that I am a failure at the age of 20 and that my parents will never be proud of me.
And then I draw something.
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.
I was out smoking one afternoon recently and I "saw" a big Quetzalcoatl-looking snake about four feet tall and maybe sixty feet long moving through the field out my backdoor
I can tell them apart from reality, though, so it's mostly just fun and sometimes thought-provoking (it can be horrifying when they're bad things, though. Seeing people in my room and hearing someone saying my voice always throws me for a loop.)
What were you good at in school?
I don't know. I got Ds in all my classes. I spent all my time playing vid-eo games.
So you are good at games?
Yes. I once played Starcraft for 32 hours straight. My kidneys almost shut down.
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.
I feel like this is what you do sometimes.
one day i will read this book
I feel like this is unfair because you can say that about literally any industry ever
movies, art, even books can exist solely to be marketed to the public at large
but then there are things created for people that will appreciate them.
that's why we're able to have video games like Call of Duty, and then video games like Limbo. it depends on your target audience!
inb4 video games as art debate