Comments on: Vertiginous duality ~ or ~ The edge http://tomhowe.org/blog/2009/08/28/vertiginous-duality-or-the-edge/ Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:45:44 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: LWIII http://tomhowe.org/blog/2009/08/28/vertiginous-duality-or-the-edge/comment-page-1/#comment-4531 LWIII Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:30:37 +0000 http://tomhowe.org/blog/?p=1047#comment-4531 Facing fear is not an original idea with any of us, alas and yay, but you are the only one who ever said, "Artists stare at fear so long and hard that fear becomes afraid of them." Glad to hear the story idea struck a nerve, Azyh. Your vision does remind me of some kind of fable or fairy tale, the bat that became a lion and cut your face three times (remember numbers are always important in fairy tales) and then you looked and looked and looked... xoxo! Facing fear is not an original idea with any of us, alas and yay, but you are the only one who ever said, “Artists stare at fear so long and hard that fear becomes afraid of them.”

Glad to hear the story idea struck a nerve, Azyh. Your vision does remind me of some kind of fable or fairy tale, the bat that became a lion and cut your face three times (remember numbers are always important in fairy tales) and then you looked and looked and looked…

xoxo!

]]> By: azyh http://tomhowe.org/blog/2009/08/28/vertiginous-duality-or-the-edge/comment-page-1/#comment-4530 azyh Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:08:03 +0000 http://tomhowe.org/blog/?p=1047#comment-4530 i got a few stories i need to do for you now. the bear one is still on my mind and i will add this lion one to the list. I didn't think about doing it as a story, thanks :) but now i think about it, isn't that what Timothy did? so really this is your idea, about facing fear :) xx azyh i got a few stories i need to do for you now. the bear one is still on my mind and i will add this lion one to the list.

I didn’t think about doing it as a story, thanks :)

but now i think about it, isn’t that what Timothy did? so really this is your idea, about facing fear :)

xx azyh

]]> By: LWIII http://tomhowe.org/blog/2009/08/28/vertiginous-duality-or-the-edge/comment-page-1/#comment-4526 LWIII Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:37:20 +0000 http://tomhowe.org/blog/?p=1047#comment-4526 Well, there you go again Azyh, saying something that strikes deep into my heart. Your fear quote is going into the Extracto, as well as onto Twitter. That dream is so cool. Facing down the lion. Hope to read your story based on that someday. It could be almost a fable. Much love and thanks! LWIII Well, there you go again Azyh, saying something that strikes deep into my heart. Your fear quote is going into the Extracto, as well as onto Twitter.

That dream is so cool. Facing down the lion. Hope to read your story based on that someday. It could be almost a fable.

Much love and thanks!

LWIII

]]> By: azyh http://tomhowe.org/blog/2009/08/28/vertiginous-duality-or-the-edge/comment-page-1/#comment-4509 azyh Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:40:26 +0000 http://tomhowe.org/blog/?p=1047#comment-4509 this gave me flash backs to a vision i got during rieki 1. I was being pushed over a cliff face and yet there was nothing to land on or land in. Like Alice in a way but there wasn't any falling. suddenly there was a bat then a lion. the lion tore at my face (three or four cuts from the claws) and then roared at me. what was weird was like the fear i had at the cliff face was gone. i no longer had fear in the face of the lion. I just looked it. and the lion became afraid of me. i think that is what artists do ~ they stare at fear so long and hard that fear becomes afraid of them... xx bern this gave me flash backs to a vision i got during rieki 1. I was being pushed over a cliff face and yet there was nothing to land on or land in. Like Alice in a way but there wasn’t any falling.

suddenly there was a bat then a lion. the lion tore at my face (three or four cuts from the claws) and then roared at me.

what was weird was like the fear i had at the cliff face was gone. i no longer had fear in the face of the lion. I just looked it. and the lion became afraid of me.

i think that is what artists do ~ they stare at fear so long and hard that fear becomes afraid of them…

xx bern

]]> By: LWIII http://tomhowe.org/blog/2009/08/28/vertiginous-duality-or-the-edge/comment-page-1/#comment-4496 LWIII Sat, 29 Aug 2009 01:41:01 +0000 http://tomhowe.org/blog/?p=1047#comment-4496 Hey Truly, thanks for the truly great comment on the artistic process. Limbo ain't so great, but artists gotta go there too, darnit. It does get kind of scary telling the truth for once, which most people don't get to do, so even though it can be scary, artisticness ain't so bad. Love and thanks, LWIII Hey Truly, thanks for the truly great comment on the artistic process. Limbo ain’t so great, but artists gotta go there too, darnit. It does get kind of scary telling the truth for once, which most people don’t get to do, so even though it can be scary, artisticness ain’t so bad.

Love and thanks,

LWIII

]]> By: Truly Rumbunctious http://tomhowe.org/blog/2009/08/28/vertiginous-duality-or-the-edge/comment-page-1/#comment-4491 Truly Rumbunctious Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:36:13 +0000 http://tomhowe.org/blog/?p=1047#comment-4491 LW111 When Artists produce a body of work that is 9 parts them and 1 part ink and paper, They are inviting people to critique their very selves and not a piece of paper with words upon it. Scary. Logic coming into play, would suggest, some you win some you lose, or feeback to use as a tool, to hone your skill. Some people who have mass appeal, may have stumbled upon a *winning formula* Pffft personally give that a wide berth. Nothing from their very soul there!!! Logic never came into play with fear. For myself. Choice of three Life....Death... or worse Limbo. The inbetween realising you are going to die acute sensory overload (great for inspirational thinking) and the blissful giving into nothingness(great for inspirational thinking) is preferable to the transitional state of limbo. (a natural instinct to conserve energy) not so great for inspirational thinking Great artists need the Adrenalin Rush to inspire them. I wish i wasn't so scared of precarious places myself...Mentally my head is always in high places...in reality my feet stay firmly planted on the ground I want to be an Adrenalin Junkie..I admire Artists their bravery. Hang on to letting go. Whoooosh Splatt...another story. Truly. LW111

When Artists produce a body of work that is 9 parts them and 1 part ink and paper, They are inviting people to critique their very selves and not a piece of paper with words upon it.

Scary.

Logic coming into play, would suggest, some you win some you lose, or feeback to use as a tool, to hone your skill.

Some people who have mass appeal, may have stumbled upon a *winning formula* Pffft personally give that a wide berth. Nothing from their very soul there!!!

Logic never came into play with fear.

For myself. Choice of three

Life….Death… or worse Limbo.

The inbetween realising you are going to die acute sensory overload (great for inspirational thinking) and the blissful giving into nothingness(great for inspirational thinking) is preferable to the transitional state of limbo. (a natural instinct to conserve energy) not so great for inspirational thinking

Great artists need the Adrenalin Rush to inspire them.

I wish i wasn’t so scared of precarious places myself…Mentally my head is always in high places…in reality my feet stay firmly planted on the ground

I want to be an Adrenalin Junkie..I admire Artists their bravery.

Hang on to letting go.

Whoooosh Splatt…another story.

Truly.

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