Experiencing Art
Feb. 24th, 2004 12:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebLast night I went to a college performance of various pieces composed by UT students. There was some piano music, some plays, and some movies. The piano music seemed good, and was amazingly played. I don't know how people get their fingers to do that, even though I have a piano in my house and can impress some people myself. People who do not play the piano at all. But I also remembered that I don't really enjoy music unless it is "accessible," and I'm sure that writing accessible music is so very uncool.
The plays I found to be even more inaccessible. Really, poetry I didn't understand with modern dance accompaniament.
One movie reminded me that I want to make movies with cheap special effects, because she had great ones. She had the kind where you "see the brush strokes" or, in this case, the wires moving the pieces around. I remembered that when I do this, I will need to leave some time for the audience to laugh at the special effects before I rush into advancing the plot with them.
The other movie sounded like it was going to be boring, something about two guys in a laundramat being confused over who owned some pair of pants. But actually it was hilarious with no-brush-stroke cheap special effects. And this reminded me that you don't really have to make movies about exotic subjects you don't know to have a good movie.
Afterward they had a reception with fruit and sweets. Mmm.
Journal entry of the day: no, Elvis is not in the king cake, by jette - Learn about king cakes. "Little did I know that the king cake was going to suffer from Attack of the White Goopy Icing."
The plays I found to be even more inaccessible. Really, poetry I didn't understand with modern dance accompaniament.
One movie reminded me that I want to make movies with cheap special effects, because she had great ones. She had the kind where you "see the brush strokes" or, in this case, the wires moving the pieces around. I remembered that when I do this, I will need to leave some time for the audience to laugh at the special effects before I rush into advancing the plot with them.
The other movie sounded like it was going to be boring, something about two guys in a laundramat being confused over who owned some pair of pants. But actually it was hilarious with no-brush-stroke cheap special effects. And this reminded me that you don't really have to make movies about exotic subjects you don't know to have a good movie.
Afterward they had a reception with fruit and sweets. Mmm.
Journal entry of the day: no, Elvis is not in the king cake, by jette - Learn about king cakes. "Little did I know that the king cake was going to suffer from Attack of the White Goopy Icing."