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art project roundup
Oct. 5th, 2007 08:50 amSemi-Secret project should be done this weekend. Yay!
The film score is kind of omnipresent; I work on chunks as I get directorial feedback.
Got the notice for the Spark Festival RFP. It's the 26th. I want to submit for it, but this is kind of hard, as I'm running low on new material to submit, and with the death of the Ion, my rig is up in the air right now so it's hard to polish the newer things I might use for a submission and daunting to try and think of performing with so many unknown quantities, even though the performance wouldn't be until February. I also have an idea for an installation that I want to submit, but I don't know if it's too much too soon. I've been thinking about the idea a lot, but I don't know if I have the skills yet to pull it off, or if I would by February. I don't know if I should focus on one or the other or submit for both and just see what happens, or maybe even take a year off while I build my rig and my new skills, or if that's just procrastinating. It all hinges on getting accepted at all, but... still.
And then there's the everpresent album. A lot of why I don't have new material is because I feel like I want/need to make the "finished" version of my older stuff before I make new stuff. The Catch-22 is that then I keep feeling like my older stuff is tired and I don't get very excited about working on an album or music in general at all. Gah!
Sometimes I feel like the reason I never feel like I'm making any artistic progress is because I have so many balls in the air. Other times I think that's the best way to not let things get stagnant. Michael, the artist next door to my office, was saying how he'd finished his recent project and was getting worried for a day because he didn't know what he was going to work on next. I kind of envied him.
How do you focus?
The film score is kind of omnipresent; I work on chunks as I get directorial feedback.
Got the notice for the Spark Festival RFP. It's the 26th. I want to submit for it, but this is kind of hard, as I'm running low on new material to submit, and with the death of the Ion, my rig is up in the air right now so it's hard to polish the newer things I might use for a submission and daunting to try and think of performing with so many unknown quantities, even though the performance wouldn't be until February. I also have an idea for an installation that I want to submit, but I don't know if it's too much too soon. I've been thinking about the idea a lot, but I don't know if I have the skills yet to pull it off, or if I would by February. I don't know if I should focus on one or the other or submit for both and just see what happens, or maybe even take a year off while I build my rig and my new skills, or if that's just procrastinating. It all hinges on getting accepted at all, but... still.
And then there's the everpresent album. A lot of why I don't have new material is because I feel like I want/need to make the "finished" version of my older stuff before I make new stuff. The Catch-22 is that then I keep feeling like my older stuff is tired and I don't get very excited about working on an album or music in general at all. Gah!
Sometimes I feel like the reason I never feel like I'm making any artistic progress is because I have so many balls in the air. Other times I think that's the best way to not let things get stagnant. Michael, the artist next door to my office, was saying how he'd finished his recent project and was getting worried for a day because he didn't know what he was going to work on next. I kind of envied him.
How do you focus?
