Strange day.

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I know what they mean, but taking the headline literally produces an amusing mental image.

Random musings:

I came to work today specifically because my supervisor was going to be here. She's not here. Argh.

I wonder what would happen if I treated drawing like a language. (In other words, instead of trying to learn to draw The Human Body, learn to draw arms, and legs, and hands, and feet, and the torso, and the head - all separately. And then break those down.) Hm.

I hope I have a voice lesson on Friday.

I hope Jess'a has found a place to live.

Comments

[telerib.livejournal.com]

I wonder what would happen if I treated drawing like a language.

I'm convinced music is like language. And like math, or at least geometry. It's like there are rules on what can come after what. If you break them, it might be e.e. cummings, or it might be high school crap poetry. Staying with the rules means you'll at least write a decent musical sentence. It may not be one of the soaring, eloquent lines of the Great Composers, but it will be somewhat pleasing to the ear, or at least Mostly Harmless. Just about all my improv compositions are in the Mostly Harmless category - not particularly inspired or original, but fair ear candy.

I don't know if this is because music *is* like language, or because my brain treats it that way. Being able to "write" pictures sounds like a neat way to approach it. I'd say give it a shot and see if your brain warms to the idea.

[elissa-carey.livejournal.com]

I'll try not to bitch too much, but... if the Shrub hadn't messed with the food handling standards to begin with, we wouldn't need to be tracking down the mad cow mess. *grump* But I am heartened to see that second headline. Halliburton can kiss my puckered patootie.

Drawing like a language sounds interesting. Not only will you need to study the seperate parts, but how they work together. (After all, you're not just bunching up a tricep, but acting upon other muscles in the arms and shoulder.) I don't have much talent for drawing to begin with, so this would work in a limited fashion for me. I think it would work for you, however. :)