So I have some fake plants that I wanted to use for a Labyrinth photoshoot. They're the most glitter-coated-reminiscent-of-Labyrinth thing I've ever seen in a fake flower section. If you've ever seen Labyrinth you'll know that there is a heck ton of glitter in it. I know nothing about makeup and I don't really have supplies so I knew my idea wasn't going to be feasible but I did want to do something Labyrinth inspired.
Anyways that's how I went from wanting to recreate something even faintly resembling this
to this
It made more sense in my head. I ruined a perfectly good dollar store eyeliner pencil for this and I regret nothing.
When you sing way too aggressively to the 'What does the fox say?' bits and the following weird noises
I keep having the moment where I realize that there's some things I love that are at my fingertips that are just things that I know are there. Which sounds like a dumb realization, but for example, there's music artists where I'm aware that they're constantly creating, playing with their sound, touring and whatever which is something that a lot of music artists do. I'm incredibly grateful that they do because there's so much music that I love that wouldn't exist without them. But then sometimes there's artists where I'm less aware of what they're doing but I have their music anyway. I've just come to know that it's right there as if it had been there forever. I've come back to it for years. Things like old Florence and the Machine songs, Lord Huron, as examples that are all still making new music, but they've been doing it longer than I've paid attention. They have so many songs that are just out there and I can turn them on whenever I want. That goes for every music artist too though. They put out a new album and now I can hoard that like the dragon I am coming back to it whenever I want. I have so many songs that obviously aren't mine, but they feel like they're mine when I listen to them. I associate the songs with characters, with people, with movies I saw... Because there was a time when it didn't exist, and then it did. And sometimes I'm more aware of the artist behind it than other times, but sometimes I forget there's actually people out there that struggled over it, rehearsed it, came up with it, just put the effort in in general. And some things we've sung for a hundred years like hymns.
And again, that goes for any artist. Paintings, movies, books, music, architecture, edit videos, photography, whatever form art could possibly ever come in. Even the people that make Christmas lights or they put the sparkles on fake plants because it's 'festive'. And it just adds to the cycle because I listen/watch/ or whatever and I get inspired to create to something. Or I just feel comforted knowing that I can play a Lord Huron song for the upteenth-million times.
So that's my long spiel to say but artists though guys... Whatever form that may come in. And sometimes I don't appreciate that I can just hoard these things in the back of my mind and they feel like mine somehow.
Like so many people have connected over things. I mean that both as a deep thing and as a ridiculous thing. It's beautiful either way.
We all of our things we come back to. Like there was a time when Howl's Moving Castle didn't exist. I don't like to think about that guys.
So here's to artists and me forgetting that they're actually people.
I would love to know what songs you guys just take for granted that its there. It's just 'your' song(s)? And it could be for books or movies or anything really.
