there's a lot of things that i am quite amused and intrigued about. i was a theater kid back in my teens (who is surprised), but some actors genuinely fascinated me. i've only been getting into film theory recently, but this amusement has not gone away. when i watched interstellar on the big screen earlier this year, the sound design and the performance of the characters simply astonished me. every aspect of the movie was crafted with such a perfection that i could only dream of one day designing, and it truly felt like this immersive experience: this feeling of reading a book and entering a world was now being transmitted to me by such a gorgeous film. i'll probably write a post on my analysis of interstellar soon.
i know a lot of music theory. but not enough. and some more complex compositions only graze my ears as i hear their majesty, their full form outside of my knowledge, and my appreciation falling ever so short of their extent. that doesn't mean that i can't also appreciate music that doesn't have 70 different layers to it. well written lyrics are also extremely amusing. something i'm astonished by is how one can speak through rhythm. though i'm a writer, i'm a very different breed of writer than my poetic and lyric peers. their stories, their rhythm and syncopation, their works existing in unison with the flow of each note is something i'll never stop being fully amazed by.
good scene composition is a very hard and difficult concept to master. which is why i have this fascination with how photography works. the elegance of the rule of thirds and the effects of negative space in a composition are astonishing, and i can't even begin to describe my appreciation for the thousands of great photographers and cinematographers out there. every aspect of a good picture - from its attention to color theory to even the tiniest speck of shadow - when mastered, produce this beautiful painting in form of life.
one of the things that by far intrigues me the most is the human brain. there is absolutely no comparison. humanity has been hunting for the answers to the behavior of our own being for hundreds of thousands of years. the nature of the brain, the solutions that we seek every day to our own problems, our instinctual nature of being, all of these things controlled by an organ who had the privilege to give itself its own name. if you go seek your resources, you'll learn that we are the most intelligent species that we know of on planet earth. and that's just absolutely insane. though our behavior may trace to some other animals, we are but the only ones to be here, bipedal, existential and capable of such abstract thoughts. and it's absolutely insane what we've been able to accomplish in terms of technology. and we still have so much more to do. knowledge is as big as us, and it will transcend us the day we die. there are no words that could fully describe my love and my fascination for the brain.
yeah. that's it. all of my appreciations that just can't make a full blog post but that occupy a big space in my mind. i'll probably write some blog posts inspired by these concepts - because there is so much to talk about - so stay tuned. or don't, i'm not the you police. i'll see y'all later!! :]