Week Two: Electric Boogaloo

    I struggle with having to write weekly blog post more than I thought I would. I’ve always been that person who never really like to write about themselves or in any personal extension, and already in my second blog post, I feel I have nothing really to write about. I guess it’s best to continue with talking about the group work I touched upon last week. I’m further behind on the project than I like to be, we had difficulty on settling on a room to model, jumping between ‘A Clockwork Orange’’s home invasion scene which takes place at the beginning, and rooms such as the Star Trek TOS Bridge, Speedracer’s living room, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and finally the green bathroom from the Shining. Due to only settling on a room at lunch time Friday, I feel we lost a weeks worth of work, as I was working on the room up in till the change. If we had changed earlier we would have had more time to work on the new room. The previous’ rooms work is part of our development so it’s not all lost, but I just feel we could have changed earlier.
    I feel this issue of thinking I’ve done enough comes from my negative mind set, I would be lying if I said I wanted to change it. Having a pessimistic and negative view on the world means I don’t have to deal with being let down, or disappointed, yet when something positive happens I’m over the moon, yet I do feel this mind set severely affects my viewing of my work. I’ve become incredibly critical of it, picking it apart, losing confidence, but this brings with it the understanding of what I’ve done wrong, yet I fail to act at the next part of tackling on how to improve this. I think this also plays into the struggle of persevering what is too much work, I always think I could do more in the end. electric

    In other going ons, I’ve taken on a interest of Satchell Drakes work, influencing my writing with his work philosophies. At the start of his series, Anti Semantics, he introduces a typographic quote by William Strunk and E. B. White
    “Vigorous writing is concise, this requires not that the writer makes all his sentences short, or that he avoids detail, but treats his subject only in outline, but that every world tell.”
    I aim to now evolve my writing to follow this philosophy. Allowing me to extend my vocabulary and reduce the amount of detail I delve into, yet still producing an informative piece.