Sunday, March 18, 2012

Who Wants to Provide Art?

I have been partaking in different creative writing exercises on and off for a while now.  I just stumbled across one that involves taking a picture or painting or something along those lines and creating a story from that scene or about that piece.  I found it to be a cool idea, so if anyone wants to help a bortha out and provide a piece of art for me to use, I would greatly appreciate it yo!
Oph

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Peeta or Gale

I have now read "Hunger Games" 4 times.  I have read "Catching Fire" twice and "Mockingjay" once.  I am obsessed with the series "The Hunger Games".  Suzanne Collins does a wonderful job with this series.  I think what I love most about it, is that every time I read one of the books, I pick up on different symbolism and meaning.  I do not know if what I find meaning in was meant to be taken that way.  But the symbolism is incredible.  I love to write and I love to incorporate symbolism.  It allows the reader to make their own assumptions, connections, ideas. 
While reading the Hunger Games I cannot help but to think that our society is not to far off from the one Collins creates in her series.  Now, obviously if you read it at a surface level, then we are really far off.  But take a deeper look and I believe you will find some eerie similarities.  I will not ruin the books for anyone. But I will point a few connections I made.
  • Our obsession with reality tv.  America loves it.  Jersey Shore, Teen Mom, the Real World, Survivor.  We love this crap, we beg for more and when a season ends, we watch the post show interviews and cannot wait until the next season...  We often delight in the reality stars pain and suffering, whether emotional or physical.
  • Our willingness to spoil ourselves with material items.  To indulge in natural resources that are dwindling.  That we live in a culture that lives for today, for instant satisfaction.  That we care very little about the people who do not have what we have, the people who are practically slaves in other nations to provide our crap.  
  • And finally, and this one I will leave very vague in case my awesome readers have not read past the first book.  But our willingness to jump behind a cause, or a leader, without really examining motives and thinking about the future.  Everyone loved when Egypt was "freed" but the people who helped "free" them are running things very similar to how it was ran before... We love a revolution, idolize those leaders, but do not fully inspect their motives...
I could go on and on.  Especially conspiracy theories I have derived after reading the series.  Simply tho, read the books.  And really think about what you are reading... A shallow reader is one who will always miss the good stuff.
Happy Hunger Games
Oph

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Help a Brotha Out.

So I have mentioned this before.  I love to write and stuff.  A bit ago I wrote a short story, it is not very long at all.  I kept it to myself for a while but kind of do want to share it with folks so that I can get some feedback.  It is a goal of mine to one day publish some sort of book (not this story), and I can only get better with feedback.  The link at the bottom here is to the document on google docs.  Now, I am not sure if anyone actually reads any of these posts but if you are reading this and you enjoy reading stories and would like to help me out with feedback, please do so.  Just let me know you are gonna check it our or when you have finished or what not.  And no rush at all, though it won't take long to read.
Thanks friends!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FFmcRunXIo0F-2rcnY7OO_YITBbKW7Jm0ZItkuv_NHQ/edit