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[permetaform]

::falls over:: gah. Too much to do.

Revelation re:SGA via harriet_spy from here:

_{"Our source texts are TV shows and movies: visual media. And we analyze them. We natter on at length, in fact.}

Yes, but I think we mostly talk about them *as texts*."

The beautiful and fickle thing about SGA is that most of the "text" of SGA exists in it's visuals, and not as "text" itself.

...I really really need to do that discussion on mise-en-scene in SGA really alot don't I? o.0


Revelation re:Vids via class-on-sound via prof.:

"Music speaks. It's words are notes and tones. It has syntax; it has phrases, and the musical phrases have subjects and objects."

...which, yes. And also puts into words vid meta that I've been struggling to figure out how to phrase for awhile now; when I'm vidding in essay-format (ie. rhetorical form, argumentative form, linear form) there are usually specific places where you can sense that the "cause" has to be placed and then the "effect" right after, and these places usually correspond to the "subject" and "object" parts of music, "call" and "response". Or some such.


In other news, I've been perusing some Persian poetry by Sohrab Sepehry, a fave:

From Green To Green

I, in this darkness,
am imagining a bright lamb
who comes to graze
on the grass of my exhaustion

I, in this darkness,
see the wet extension
of my arms under a rainfall,
that rain which drenched the first prayers of man

I, in this darkness,
opened the door to ancient meadows,
to goldens
upon the wall of myth,
whereon we feasted our eyes.

I, in this darkness
say roots--and for the new growth
on the bush of death
I expressed:

"water"

Comments

[fancyfox.livejournal.com]

Cool poem. I dig.

[permetaform]

=D

Re your vid revelation

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

OMG, we MUST talk about this!

Subjects and objects! Causes and effects!

::brain is all whirly::

Re: Re your vid revelation

[permetaform]

yes! yes we must! when are you free? and phone or aim?

Re: Re your vid revelation

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

I'm online today until about 2:00, off and on. AIM?

Re: Re your vid revelation

[permetaform]

wargh! I only got on at 2pm. I'll be off and on (as twistedpaper04) until about midnight. For Sunday I'll be available at night.

Re: Re your vid revelation

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

Alas, I am out tonight. ): I'll add your AIM name to my buddy list, though, and hope to catch you before Escapade. If not, we can talk there!

[aurora]

"Music speaks. It's words are notes and tones. It has syntax; it has phrases, and the musical phrases have subjects and objects."
This is really cool. I want to start vidding myself, but I have no idea where to start. Imo, there is only so much you can learn; you still have to have that 'vid feel' and I'm afraid I lack that. Severely.

And I love the rhythm in the poem. Pretty.

[permetaform]

yeah, I'm really loving the poetry, though the indentations makes it hard to reproduce for LJ.

'vid feel' is to a certain extent aquired. Perhaps listen alot to music first? Usually, when I set out to make a vid, I totally don't know what it's gonna look like except for certain sections, and then it usually morphs on me. Vidding itself is a process of discovery...