"Which is the right way? Indifference, perhaps. That's not possible; since we are here, we can't help participating; we can't be detached from the manifest world, since we are immersed in it. We cannot reject the world. Then let's take everything seriously; that's equally ridiculous. Or can I be like a tree: but I'm not a tree. Or can I follow the drift of history, in the direction of cosmic evolution? But nobody knows quite what that means. I don't know the basic elements of the game. One ought at least to feel at ease; I cannot, because living is the source of my unease. Anxiety is ignorance. Non-anxiety is also ignorance. I seem to be going around in a circle. Perhaps I'm not going around in a circle. Perhaps there is no circle. I cannot laugh, nor weep, nor sit down, nor lie down, nor get up, nor desire, nor not desire. I am paralyzed." - Eugene Ionesco
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Creativity Quotation #33
“Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can name great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired greatness, became 'geniuses' (as we put it)... They all possessed that seriousness of the efficient workman which first learns to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; they allowed themselves time for it, because they took more pleasure in making the little, secondary things well than in the effect of a dazzling whole." - Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
Gowiththeflow
Gowiththeflow is not passive
contrary to how it may sound
It is positioning
and posturing
and placing myself
to heed what the Moment calls for
Creativity Quotation #32
“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence.” - Sherlock Holmes in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
It's Magic: Designing Costumes for "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon"
Green Tiger costume rendering by Anthony Tran.
South Coast Repertory recently posted an interview with Anthony Tran, costume designer for their upcoming production of Where the Mountain Meets the Moon: A Musical Adaptation.
And if you live in SoCal, be sure to get your tickets for the SCR production today!