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1) What is your favourite piece of work from your own gallery? (include a link/thumb)
As bad as this short story is, it's just about the longest and most intelligible thing I've written.  
  

2) Remember that thing you wrote/drew/painted when you were a kid and were so super proud of? What was it?
In fifth grade I wrote about two pages of this story featuring a tuba playing nerd (definitely not inspired by myself) and a stereotypical popular girl. The popular kid hated the nerd, while the nerd cooly and composedly made the popular kid seem dumb. I was convinced this was a genius idea that would develop into a novel and make me famous. 


3) Have you ever dreamed so big it made you afraid of what would happen if you fell?
I'm assuming 'dream' and 'fell' aren't being used in their concrete, literal definitions here, so yes. Whenever I think about the future I become a self-defeating coward.

4) If money wasn't an issue, what would you do with your time? Would you make your passion your full time job, get a regular part-time just, just for the sake of getting out into the world, or dedicate yourself to leisure?
A mix I suppose? I would fill the day with film and novels and maybe visual art, some of which I would critique. I adore editing so I'd do a bit of that and also, if it didn't depress me too much, write a bit on my own and do some of my own art. Also philosophy because philosophy is cooler than you  are.

5) Are you enough of a nerd to know what TARDIS stands for? (without having to Google it)
Dude someone said it once and I completely forget. I don't watch Doctor Who but I probably qualify as a nerd.

6) If you could visit one city that you've never been to before, where would you go, and why?
Wow this is tough. Somewhere in Switzerland or somewhere in Japan, because I've always wanted to visit and experience Europe, but Japan is kick-ass and I enjoy the creative people that country produces. 

7) Name one seemingly ordinary object that has been made utterly terrifying for you because of a book/movie/tv show.
Do blowjobs count as an object? If not, bumblebee octopuses coupled with the sound of wire brushes? Wow I'm not very good at this. 

8) What is the last book you read, and would you recommend it to me?
Nausea
by Jean Paul Sartre! Yes I would!The end was a tad cheap, but he really gives a well imagined reminder of what existentialism is really about. 

9) Do you prefer science or philosophy?
Philosophy. It targets more ephemeral questions, ones that science will never be able to touch, and brings into question whether science has any rooted truth or value in the first place. 

10) What is the most recent addition to your favourites gallery? (include link or thumb)
By the exquisite bareHa, one of my favorite artists on deviantART. I'm going to go ahead and make this full-sized since a thumbnail doesn't do it justice.


I'm not going to tag anyone, but if you'd like, post these questions in a journal and answer them. 

1. What is your favorite branch of the arts and why?
2. Do you have free will and are you free?
3. Do you believe in picking favorites?
4. If you're terrified, is is worse to keep your eyes open or to keep your eyes shut? Why?
5. What is the coolest possibility the theory of evolution offers?
6. Are you a pessimist or an optimism? Explain your definition of both terms. 
7. Do you have the same basic interests today that you did when you were a child? If so, what's the same? If not, what's different?
8. How many more years will the human race exist for?
9. Do you speak another language? If so, which language? If you could instantaneously learn another language, which would you choose?
10. Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
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8.5

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Hello lovely persons of deviantART! It's been forever since I've posted a journal, and while this one's purpose is not to blather about the art I am and am not doing, allow me to preface it with a brief update:

    -I am still enrolled in a creative writing class which is absorbing most of my creativity. I violently hate most things I produce there; thus, they are not posted here. 
    -Ink! I bought calligraphy pens and have fallen in love with them. Many of the drawings I've been making are too personal to share with dA, but I will eventually scan and upload those which are not. 
    -I have a new approach to writing which I believe t be better, but far less prolific. In the past, whenever I had a snippet of an idea, an artistic image or simple comment, I made it into a piece. Now, I collect these little images and save them to incorporate into bigger projects to richen them. I currently have two large pieces of writing I plan on getting done in the summer. 

Updates aside, I want to share two consecutive quotes from one of my favorite ever movies, 8½ for no particular reason. They're long, so if you'd prefer to watch the scene where they are delivered, the video is linked below. The quotes run from 0:36 to 4:17 Besides that, how is everyone? What are your summer plans? Any books, movies, or music to recommend? 


“You’ve made the right choice Believe me, today is a good day for you. Those are tough decisions, I know. But we intellectuals, and I say we because I consider you such, must remain lucid to the bitter end. This life is so full of confusion already that there’s no reason to add chaos to chaos. Believe me, no need for remorse. Losing money is part of a producer’s job. I congratulate you. You had no choice. And he got what he deserved for having joined so foolishly such a frivolous venture so lightheartedly. Destroying is better than creating when we’re not creating those few, truly necessary things. But then, is there anything so clear and right that it deserves to live in this world? For him, the wrong movie is only a financial matter, but for you, at this point, it could have been the end. Better to quit and strew the ground with salt, as the ancients did, to purify the battlegrounds. In the end what we need is some hygiene, some cleanliness, disinfection. We’re smothered by images, words, and sounds that have no right to exist, coming from, and bound for, nothingness. Of any artist truly worth the name we should ask nothing except this act of faith: to learn silence. Do you remember Mallarmi’s homage to the white page? And Rimbaud, a poet, my friend, not a movie director, what was his finest poetry? His refusal to continue writing and his departure for Africa. If we can’t have everything, true perfection is nothingness. Forgive me for quoting, but we critics do what we can. Our true mission is sweeping away the thousands of miscarriages that everyday, obscenely, try to come to light. And you would actually dare to leave behind a whole film, like a cripple who leaves behind his crooked footprint. Such a monstrous presumption to think that others could benefit from the squalid catalogue of your mistakes! And how do you benefit from stringing together the tattered pieces of your life? Your vague memories, the faces of people that you were never able to love…”

    -Federico Fellini via his Writer/Critic character in 8½



“What is this sudden happiness that makes me tremble, giving me strength, life? Forgive me, sweet creatures. I hadn’t understood. I didn’t know. It’s so natural accepting you, loving you. And so simple. Luisa, I feel I’ve been freed. Everything seems so good, so meaningful. Everything is true. I wish I could explain, but I don’t know how to. So everything is confused again, as it was before. But this confusion is me. Not as I’d like to be, but as I am. I’m not afraid of telling the truth, of the things I don’t know, what I’m looking for and haven’t found. This is the only way I can feel alive and look into our faithful eyes without shame. Life is a celebration. Let’s live it together. This is all I can say, Luisa, to you or the others. Accept me for what I am if you want me. It’s the only way we might be able to find each other.”

    -Federico Fellini via Guido in 8½

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(hi)
(it's been a while)

I apologize a lot on deviantART and though I was going to apologize in this journal, I've changed my mind. Instead, let me explain. 

This summer started with the continuation of the creative slump I was experiencing from about April out. The combination of that and too much freedom to laze about and do nothing sort of swirled into a noxious mix and I stopped interacting with people. I avoided everyone as much as I could, at first only those in real life, but then online too. I watched Whose Line is it Anyway ceaselessly and spent too much time on tumblr, where lurking is very convenient, instead of immersing myself in the more intellectual media I truly love, a lot of which comes from deviantART. And I don't know why. I know I'm something of an extreme introvert, and I know I function in two ways (one of which is basically not functioning, like described above), but the extent to which I withdrew from everything I love strikes me as very odd. I did gain the knowledge that I'm very content in isolation, but other than that, my behavior was fairly irresponsible and deleterious. 

I'm back. Maybe this will happen again, though I suspect only the social part, and I'm sure there will be periods where I'm just as inactive. But that's kind of just how I am. DeviantART isn't something I invest huge amounts of time into, and while I love it, I'm sort of done making promises that will just overwhelm me. I'll still give critiques and do what I've said I will. But I won't guarantee when. It may take me well over a month. 

What shouldn't take me over a month is posting a few of my projects. Yes, I've been a sack of useless rotting lard this summer, but I've also slowly been typing up a legitimate short story that's longer than a couple of pages. It has a plot and everything! I've also been making steady progress in creating the interactive story I mentioned in my last journal. I may need to enlist a visual artist to illustrate it, and I'll definitely need a dedicated beta-tester or two, but that's a bit in the future. Next year I'm taking creative writing, which will force me to write a lot more, and you may suffer because of it, and lastly, I have another short story in the form of a series of vignettes passages which I hope to eventually upload. So overall, expect somewhat more serious work from me. 

The only other thing I wish to mention is all this business with Jack White, who was one of my true idols, and my opinions on it. You can find everything I've written about it here with the main essayish thing here. It's just an issue I feel strongly about and am in a somewhat credible position to comment on.

Alrighty vote in my poll and have fun with your lives. I love you all dearly. 


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Hi all! I've been very not on here lately. Most of it is due to school; they've decided killing students is an effective method of raising the graduation rate, so I've been having lots of panic attacks and mental breakdowns and also craving avocado, which always seems to be absent when you need it most. 

I'm at a bit of a crossroads with my writing. I'm starting to bother myself with each new creation; it all seems just a circular snippet of a rehashed character sketch scrawled in my notebook from two years ago. So I'm going to try to shoot for longer pieces with more plot, but seeing as my head is currently pounding and has been for a long while, I currently feel no motivation to start those stories.

Sorry.

I do have another project in mind which, once I find a platform, could be an interesting venture. It's a piece of interactive fiction,  sort of game format, but without any real gameplay. If I pursue it, expect it maybe in summer. It will be crappy. 

I've been quite interested in art games recently. I'll call them that, but they don't really have a name. Basically, games that morally challenge the player with options while being aesthetically pleasing. A few:

-Actual Sunlight I hesitate with this selection. For those of you who have experienced depression,this game will most likely be extremely triggering. For others, it will make you very sad for a moment. I say that, but I've only played the now discontinued Mac version. It appears to cost money since it's been updated, so I don't know. 

-Air Pressure To me this game is about addiction, and for the most part, I like the portrayal. It's a good and fair synthesis. My only complaint would be there seems to be no real parallel for withdrawal. 

-Coil Basically a very interactive story. It's open to a lot of interpretation, though rape seems a prevalent theme to me. I guess warning if you're sensitive to that or abusive relationships? Though that was only my interpretation. Short and slightly cliche by literary terms but executed brilliantly.

-***Covetous Very interpretable, moving, and unique. It's a short play, and one worth doing.

-Devotion Pretty platformer with pretty music about love. Simple, good impact, heartwarming. 

-Distance This game is a great demonstration of long distance relationships, both in the way you click through the day so fast just to get to the end and the moment where you get to talk to your lover and in the inevitable distance that emerges.

-Elude if Distance is a model of a long distance relationship, Elude is a model of depression. A very potent one. 

-The End of Us I really like this game because of how it communicates. There are no words, no instructions, just a lovely soundtrack and experimentation. Up until the end, it's a truly happy experience and then... you have to make a dreadful choice. 

-***Every Day the Same Dream Warning: don't play if you're easily consumed by sadnessyness spurring from nihilism. Other than that, which sort of killed me but in an okay way, the game is beauty. Severe commentary on the American Dream and routine.  Probably my favorite.

-***The Infinite Ocean Beautiful story, beautiful atmosphere, great work of science-fiction, perfect length.... just really really good. 

-Loved Another favorite. This one is in the format of a platform that deals with themes of freedom and individualism  At least one ending is very uplifting. Not too long and not too hard, but very engaging. For my own project, I'm drawing a lot of inspiration from the voice of this piece. 

-***OFF This is a long game requiring download and time. It's very atmospheric and to me, the story, characters, and puzzles are enjoyable. Battling is pointless and dumb. Music pretty.  It's worth a play, but not if you're not with some commitment. I wrote an analysis of it here in case you've finished it and want to discuss. 

-One Chance Oddly, this game seems to have stolen the entire layout of Every Day the Same Dream, but its content is completely different. It's a game with multiple endings that forces you to comprise between your values with resonating results. 

-pOnd I may be biased because I just just played it, but beautiful. Interesting message, interesting interactions, confusing, but rightfully so. 

-***Prior Nice atmospheric dystopian piece. You gets fairly emotionally attached to Mr. Black Box. This was probably my first of these types of games I played, and it's stuck with me. Short for a platformer, fun, good. Play it. 

That's all I've got for now. I'll use this list for personal reference and edit it without notice. Other than that, I should be more active after about four weeks. I will anticipate reading and looking at many beautiful art things soon!




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Distourtion

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I try to refrain from turning my deviantART into an advertisement for other artists, but my sister joined and so I shall peddle her talents to yall.

My sister is a really good artist.

I promise.

Some of you may remember the modeling pictures I had up here that are now in storage. She was the photographer, and you can now find copies of those and others in her gallery.

She's much better than me in the visual department, so if that's what you're watching me for, you should probably watch her instead. Unfortunately, she only has access to a computer for about five days every month, so your comments and what not will take a while to be acknowledged.

Um I'll feature some of her work? (Should I do this for other people)


Stairway to Heaven by distourtion

Watching by distourtion

Aquifer by distourtion

Cancer by distourtion

Synthesis by distourtion

Dying by distourtion

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