Tyler Fugazzie

• Refining time.
• How to stay interested after a breakthrough?
• Knowing how much to do, how many pieces to keep adding, when to cut it off. The project can scale as large or as small as I want at this point really. Not entirely sure how to approach that. I’m going to keep adding pieces since I have more to add and it still feels incomplete.
• Excited about the simplicity of it.
• Grateful for the Creative Commons visuals and will add credits even though I don’t need to. Although maybe that spoils some of the intended effect?
• Cut lines I don’t want to use from the Google Docs after printing and reviewing.
• Inspired by Self-Help Poems by Sampson Starkweather which a friend recommend to me.
• Discussing Metamodernism with a friend. Wondering if this work is metamodern.
• Virtually no response to sharing this blog to prompt discussion about process on r/writing but had a decent response from r/rubberducks based on sharing the image below.
• That pressure feeling to “get it done” so I can share it but needing to keep that at bay to make sure I do it right.
• Making time after work to do this, struggles with energy. Thinking of spending less time on this. Will develop more slowly because I don’t want to get obsessive and grind myself out.
• Inspired by Sufjan Steven’s interview on The Creative Independent.

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This is Part 12 of “Feel” Project Behind-the-Scenes Blog.

• Coming together of the lines and visuals
• Using Creative Commons Zero (CC0) pictures from Pexels
• Embracing dropping in images, embracing only using the editing tools available in Google Slides and not going to Photoshop or Illustrator
• Completely embracing a Twitter meme format while also playing with the confines of it using the space available on the widescreen format slides
• Picking lines that feel true, that feel, that don’t feel too contrived or overbaked and are simpler, more organic, more meme-like, a bit more normal
• Bleed by George Clanton
• Still up at 5:23 AM on Friday working on this

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This is Part 11 of “Feel” Project Behind-the-Scenes Blog.

Two distinct lines of creation, the visual and the verbal, that will come together for the picture book slideshow.

The Visual

• Meme formats, especially Twitter memes, sappy inspirational quote images, and internet “new age” as visual inspiration
  • A look I’ve been enjoying is a simple stack of images as seen by a number of simple meme images

Human After All (UK design agency) campaign

 

Cut Copy album and single cover visuals inspired by meme formats, image stacks, and new age album covers

https://www.instagram.com/p/BZV9NaVg6_r/?taken-by=cut_copy

https://www.instagram.com/p/BWOMm90gayJ/?taken-by=cut_copy

https://www.instagram.com/p/BX5zibvgoNZ/?taken-by=cut_copy

 

Monkey Haircut Meme

 

Sleevefaces

 

Breathing Information

“A subreddit for gifs of humorous or randomly well-timed video overlay graphics. Should be from live events.”

 

The Verbal

• The list of lines I have in Google Docs
• Lines I grabbed that use “feel like” from my Evernote and work email, “feels like” from Evernote, and “felt like” from Evernote. These were actual feelings expressed by myself from my personal notes and journal and some others via my work email.
• Meme-like expression, with hints of poetry but nothing too contrived or try hard

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This is Part 10 of “Feel” Project Behind-the-Scenes Blog.

Tear Gun

Felicific calculus

“The felicific calculus is an algorithm formulated by utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) for calculating the degree or amount of pleasure that a specific action is likely to cause. Bentham, an ethical hedonist, believed the moral rightness or wrongness of an action to be a function of the amount of pleasure or pain that it produced. The felicific calculus could, in principle at least, determine the moral status of any considered act. The algorithm is also known as the utility calculus, the hedonistic calculus and the hedonic calculus.”

Talking to a friend and he reminded me about my YouTube idea to showcase different creative processes.

Here are the notes I have from that abandoned and/or postponed idea:

Try this at home

Intro the process
Explain the process, use an example
Own experience with process
End by presenting the piece of art
Try it at home (you try and share your art in comments and I’ll feature it in next episode

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiritori
• Time Attack
• Remix Everything
• Pocket Egg (remove smart phone from equation)
• Look Up Stories
• It’s the Blend of the World as We Know It
• Notice One Color
• Beginners Mindset
• In the same style (What is a …?)
• Limited Word Set

Should I do a “Day” for different feelings?

• Moody Monday
• Wistful Wednesday

Is this project an antidote to rushing?

I conducted a search for “feel like” and “feels like” and “felt like” in my Evernote and compiled a list of lines I had from entries in there, mostly private notes and journal entries, which may find their way into this project. These would be authentic moments of feeling expression that I’d love to include in this project. I also found a late night free write free verse journal entry that reads like one of the realest things I’ve written but is not something I’m quite comfortable sharing. Yet. I’m also thinking about searching through sent emails from my work and personal emails for the phrases I searched for in Evernote to find more lines. We shall see.

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This is Part 9 of “Feel” Project Behind-the-Scenes Blog.