Quotes that stayed in my mind.

Critic as an Artist: Oscar Wilde:

Reread it. Found it hard to interpret yet again.

One friend quotes this in his signature:

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to
time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
-- Oscar Wilde, "The Critic as Artist"


A review said:

This major work is particularly interesting in the context of late 20th century poetics. Like several of the younger American and British innovative poets and theorists, Wilde argues, through his character Gilbert, for the equal importance of the critical faculty with artistic creation, that, in short, the artist must be both critic and creator if (s)he is to produce great art and that the art of the critic should be as fine a creative work as that of any poet or novelist.

Against the romantic notion of the artist creating from a vast unconscious storehouse of emotions and ideas, Gilbert posits that “All fine imaginative work is self-conscious and deliberate. No poet sings because he must. At least, no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing...There is no fine art without self-conciousness, and self-consciousness and the critical spirit are one.”

Published originally in 1888, The Critic As Artist is almost as timely today as if it were composed in 1988.

Comments: What can I say! Salute....


Conrad Hilton:

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Comments: Interesting! Keep moving! change is the base of american economy.

Pride and Prejudice: I think this will be my weekend movie for many years to come :)

Mr. Darcy: Miss Elizabeth. I have struggled in vain and I can bear it no longer. These past months have been a torment. I came to Rosings with the single object of seeing you... I had to see you. I have fought against my better judgment, my family's expectations, the inferiority of your birth by rank and circumstance. All these things I am willing to put aside and ask you to end my agony.
Elizabeth Bennet: I don't understand.
Mr. Darcy: I love you.

Mr. Darcy: You must know... surely, you must know it was all for you. You are too generous to trifle with me. I believe you spoke with my aunt last night, and it has taught me to hope as I'd scarcely allowed myself before. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes have not changed, but one word from you will silence me forever. If, however, your feelings have changed, I will have to tell you: you have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love... I love... I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.

Comments: Bewitched??? true love??
Me: I don't understand but hope to understand someday ;)

Unforgettable

People who would have spent an outing with me know the following:

a. I am DIRECTIONLESS.
b. After I get free with the person, I can become high without alcohol...

This weekend was good expect for the movies. Today's incident was unforgettable. My friend and I were catching up and was getting crazy over nothing. We had missed a train just by staring it pass by... So, the hopelessness/craziness continued.

I was leaning againist a wall and was singing some crap song, looking towards my friend on the right. I swayed my hand towards the left. I touched someone's body. I gave the "oops" sign and turned to say sorry to a "hopefully" good looking guy.

:( :( :(

It was a guy, shorter than me, elder to me by 10+ years and semi bald........
I said sorry and turned....
My friend rolled on the floor laughing and I joined her.

Laughing .... we missed the next train...

Surely.... would have

A heaviness of heart,
A lost feeling of hope,
I relived through it,
Wish to rewind through years,

Time passes by
Living without thinking
What it would have been,
I relived through it
Wish to rewind through years

The love dying through the snow
The hopes built while I was born
The new energy you would have been
I relived through it
Wish to rewind through years

A kind and tender heart
Stripped through the sharpest razors,
Time waiting for none
While we wailed through empty space
I relived through it
Wish to rewind through years

The longing inch, the unfelt gap
The hardened tenderness, still felt fresh
What a wonderfu thing you would have been,
Pillaring me through every fall,
Nothing to lose and everything to gain
Your nearness probably was lost
Your parental serene touch
I relived through it
Wish to rewind through years


Wish not to depend,
Things do make me ponder
Tides away, a healing wave....
What can I say
PS I will always love you!

Inspired by the movie PS: I love you.

Photography

Photography has inspired me recently. I had always thought of photography as a technology that destroyed artists. Historically, artists made copies of existing things and techniques were invented and perfected in the process. Slowly, art deepened its content and meaning. To me, an artist doesnt care about what the audience derive about the picture. It is an overflowing emotion of the author that is depicted which the audience try to relate to. In art, the canvas is your mind plate and u pour your thoughts as depicted forms.

Back to the topic, I was given fundaes on photography by my friend. These go on record here.

"Photography is all about light"

Factors determining photography:

Things that determine what they call the exposure of the photo:

Aperture: The size of the pinhole camera which determines the amount of light that passes in at the instant of taking a click. The aperture helps in determining the "depth of field" : the sharpness between the nearest and furthest of a subject in focus.

Speed of the shutter: The shutter lies in front of the pinhole and opens with a certain speed, hence affecting the amount of the light that passes through the aperture.

The ISO number of the film or the sensor determines the sensitivity of the camera to the light. Higher ISO number helps u bring in a good exposure if there is not enough light and probably a grainy look even if there is plenty of light.

Then the focal length affecting the zoom. The larger the focal length, the higher the amount of zoom.

So, in my understanding do the following:

a. get a good camera.
b. Set the above parameters and click ur way to glory.
c. U need to have some creativeness about the angle of taking the foto, which you get when u observe fotos taken in different angles of , ofcourse, the same object.


There, the budding photographer signs off hoping to get another camera in the march sale. Hopefully this one:http://mygx100.blogspot.com/2007/06/1st-impressions.html

The camera is sleak. As I am less stronger, I am unable to carry heavy objects around , that too when I am trying to relax with photography:)