The attempt to produce Heaven on Earth often produces Hell.
- Karl Popper

GAH I NEED TO THROW AWAY HALF MY STUFF OR JUST MOVE OUT!!! I CAN'T WRITE WITH STUFF BLOCKING MY BOOKS AND PAPERS EVERYWHERE!!!!!!! I NEED SPACE!!!!!

Grrr.

* Does music need words and lyrics to make it more powerful or comprehensible? If so, doesn't this diminish and trivialise the ability of music (an essentially non-verbal composition) to express and evoke? And what about the emerging convergence of artwork ie. multi-media? Can a work stand as multi-media if what it's saying can easily be expressed by just one genre?

* How significant is context? Let's say you see a photograph without the accompanying caption that states its place/date -> would you lose the sense of what the photographer was attempting to say, or would this very lack of history and location allow you to make a more universal observation? And does universality exist at all, seeing that we all come from different biases?

* What exactly is the process of art-making? The process of simply the artist creating her/his art, or also the process of the reader or viewer deriving issues and insights that might in fact be contrary to what the artist believes in? When the reader or viewer watches a work and draws her or his own conclusions, is she/he in fact completing the art-making process? How much ownership of the artwork does the artist in fact possess where so much hinges on the audience's perception and imagination?

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It's a pretty damn good piece of music that can bring out all these questions. Ph*lip Glass, Metamorphos*s Two. It's said to be "simplistic" (and I guess it is in terms of traditional composition techniques), but can a piece of artwork be "simple" if it forces the viewer/audience to probe and feel, ie. to becoming part of the art-making process? Seeing how it's brought out all these questions in me and intersected with my background and biases, have I in fact become an accomplice colluding in the completion of this work – and all other works that have provoked a reaction?

for every ONE per cent of my grade in the core class, I'll be required to write and present 2,400 words.

MADNESS.

The ancient Pythagoreans, who defined numbers as expressions of ratios (and not as units as is common today), believed that reality is numerical and that the golden ratio expressed an underlying truth about existence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio

have decided to accept the offer -- unless circumstances prove otherwise, which hopefully they won't.

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.
- Jose Ortega y Gasset

Law is born from despair of human nature.
- Jose Ortega y Gasset

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
- Salvador Dalí

Everything you can imagine is real.
- Pablo Picasso

There, in my pictures, tiny forms in huge empty spaces. Empty spaces, empty horizons, empty plains - everything which is bare has always greatly impressed me.
- Joan Miró

If anyone has any quotes by/about artists, could you leave them here as comments or email me please? Also anything revolving vaguely around the theme of insanity. As annoying as this is I don't think I can reveal what it's for, because I'm not sure if (and when) I can pull it off. But will be grateful for any kind of help!

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.
- Jose Ortega y Gasset

Thailand: Strict ICT Measures To Curb Online Games And Porno Websites
http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v3/news.php?id=178280
Thailand's Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on Tuesday vowed to take strict measures against operators of online games shops and pornographic websites in response to complaints that many computer game shops nationwide violate the law by allowing teenagers under 18 years old to play games later than 10pm.

Pretty hypocritical of one of most popular countries in the region for child sex tourism.

Television Cul-de-Sac Mystery: Why Was Reality Show Killed?
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/21/arts/television/21welc.html?th&emc=th