Journal Archive
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Kiley Elaine Saunders
Sky
Kiley Elaine Saunders
Earth
I think I need to learn to play music or DJ or something. I'm so obsessed.
Ponderings. Potenergy. Potential Energy. Potent Energy.
We're just a bunch of travelers from the moment we are born.
About time
This all happened.
it's about time—
as in, its meaning.
We all kind of sit and stare catatonically, I can imagine. We think for a while. Or we don't think. It's cool to imagine the natural dissociative abilities of the brain. Can you picture those moments when your mind is so far in the back of your head that you are staring at someone but not at all registering it?
The feeling is so positive. It's so strong. How do expend it? Each day is hard. To go on thinking that it's not happening. But the thing is that everything is always happening.
The things we need are things that are thought provoking. But some people need to see that, need to be told, "hey, this has an alternate meaning." We don't need to create a problem in order to sell the solution. We need to interject into the kind of matrix that we are living in. We need to interrupt normal thought processes, things people never see, so they make a new, personal, original, and unbiased opinion. People immersed in the subculture love the subculture because everyone there is looking to expand their consciousness, open-minded. Not listen to a strange noise and say, "Oh, that's so weird," but instead, "hey that was so interesting." This is why I have a problem with doing what everyone else is doing. For example, Louis Vuitton is UGLY. It's honestly so ugly. If someone likes of wants a Louis Vuitton, it's for the "LV." If they actually like the design, cool. But they don't. They don't say they like the story behind it, or that it's even interesting. It just says, "I'm rich." But that's something a lot of other people are- rich. Why not look for a piece that other's don't have? How cool would a thrift store be if each piece told a cool story about it or something? I want my suit from the vintage shop to say something about the creator, designer, artist, or what the design means if it has a meaning, or where it lived its previous life. Some things don't have a meaning and that's awesome. Some artists, things mean something to them and they don't care if others like it or its meaning or for themselves. Reggie Watts wears a shirt that says "HYDROGEN," to make me think, "Why, could that say HYDROGEN? Why shit so crazy?" If I could I would take Reggie videos and show them to like high-school aged kids at assemblies. After, I would tell them to write things down for like 10 minutes after. (And during, as well.) Just to show them that what it can make your brain think of! Then show them some normal-ass TV and tell them to apply the same. Tell them both messages were constructed by people with a message. Reggie is the perfect example of this type of interruption.
But people, but sorority girls (I'm one of them)— are so closed in. They don't want to think. They don't want information or disinformation. Information is the right-brained growth, and disinformation (chaos) is left. Both are growth. Then there is distraction, passivity and consumption in the middle. This is the problem that can be fixed with a media system that promotes the polar ends of the spectrum—NOT THE MIDDLE. That's what McChesney fears but he is more concerned about the media dispersing the messages though he touches on what kind of shit we are actually consuming (the Bachelorette, for example.) If we start or encourage both ends of learning, we will see a resurgence in the arts, in creativity, in artist activation within everyone. This is way subculture has always and will always exist.
The mind is truly like a muscle. You have to feed it happiness, laughter, books, writing, an instrument, dance moves, conversation, sleep, and rest time. Meditate, run. Don't ever be passive. There's got to be a test to see if you're currently in
an active or a passive state.
You're watching Adventure Time. You're like WTF. You're seeing new images, new things that expand the mind. You laugh, smile, food for mind, body, spirit. Sports you get inspired, excited, etc. [You watch an awards ceremony with performances, a Cupcake Wars episode, things where art and creativity are kinda used but you need to be aware of the framing]
You watch Keeping Up With the Kardashians and that's all you're doing. You aren't laughing unless it's at Disick, you are becoming envious, feel inferior, or poor even, say "they're perfect," and, "why can't that be me?" this is making you think like that. Those are negatives. Try thinking, "why can't I have what they have?" How about, "these are things I have and I love that nobody else has! They are special to me- what do you have like that? Oh cool. We have things in common.
There is a reason that someone like me has chosen to be VP of Membership. People SEE something in me.
18/19/20 years old- those were the most transformative years. This is what I'm saying. It's so important to college-aged kids. We are forming our adult selves. How? This is the best and only time for that. Not, "oh, well," tell them when they're older, they'll get it. It's not a matter of re-learning. Now is the only chance.
It's working. Right here, Reggie. My stuff is going to be meaningful and purposeful to make a change like this. Where do I begin? How do I spread the word?
I need the orchestra.
I want to be an anthropologist. An interface anthropologist. What's intuitive? Do what's intuitive. Advertising anthropologist. What is this doing to us?
I'm perceptive, analytical, deconstructionist, how-is-it-framed-ist, observer, critic to THINGS THAT NEED IT.
Advertising is like finding how to ask the right interview questions.
The ANTH behind ADV could be your life's work. But you wont make any $.
We used to play that game that when you had the glasses on, you had to say something really intelligent. That was AWESOME.
Oh, the power of games! Board games. Bored games.
If you are good at everything, have a lot of ideas about everything, have a lot of ideas about nothing, you either be a Reggie Watts or an author, if you can't draw or do yoga.
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