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permetaform ([personal profile] permetaform) wrote2006-02-16 09:34 pm

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

Revelation re:SGA via [livejournal.com profile] 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"

Re: Re your vid revelation

[identity profile] laurashapiro.livejournal.com 2006-02-18 07:19 am (UTC)(link)
I'm online today until about 2:00, off and on. AIM?

Re: Re your vid revelation

[identity profile] laurashapiro.livejournal.com 2006-02-19 08:07 am (UTC)(link)
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!