Okay, a few thoughts and then some "brass tax" about me.

A few thoughts

What makes good art?
What makes attraction?
What creates magnetism?
Why do certain few people draw people in?

Why do a select few, like Elvis, like Kennedy, like that homecoming queen you went to school with that captivated everybody's attention, seem to draw people in?

Probably has to do with an uncountable number of factors. Factoring in a few, I think confidence, and being oneself are big ones. In college I studied acting, and with acting, truthful and honest behavior is almost always more interesting and engaging. When an actor is faking, or at least when we do not believe the acting, it is not captivating. Think about the actors that move you the most. Doesn't their acting seem more honest, more realistic, more subtle, more believable? There is something fascinating about watching people that can expose themselves, lower their guards, and let their most personal, true, honest, natural and human instincts, reactions and nuances come out. The theatre is meant for this purpose: to deliver a hightened dose of purer honest behavior. Just as different actors achieve various levels of honesty in their orchestrated expressions of reality, it seems that different levels of honesty are at play in real life people.

Perhaps people like this are magnetic because they tell us more about ourselves. They are, more so, a reflection of who we are, than the normal quantity of feedback we receive from most, which is fairly watered down, distorted and/or suppressed unto us. Think about your interactions: the more honest a person's behavior while they are around you - the more truthful, their responses (i.e. feedback) to your actions should be; As a result, the quality of the feedback you get from such contact is very rewarding, crystallizing, - they can reflect the truth of you. Honesty allows us to trust another’s subtle assessments. Constant response-reaction exchanges construct the shape of our self-concept by providing content and opinion as subtle suggestions which are often unconscious or seemingly unperceived. Millions of tiny comments upon our in flux, always unraveling understading.

If you were alone in the universe - with no-one to reflect you, how much would you know about yourself? For all you knew, you might be a big blue snot blob and just dreaming that you had arms and legs. No one around to respond, means that you have no feedback. No gauge to bounce your ideas and suspicions off of: no source to suggest into your gaps those components not thought of.

Meaning is residue. Understanding comes from the reflection of one's thought off the minds of subjective others = cerebral assessment. (Just like white light, containing the whole spectrum of colors/wavelengths, illuminates a painting in terms of the colors that are absorbed vs. those reflected by the pigment - so does thought project upon the canvas of other minds to illuminate reality (objective truth or meaning)); On a continuum, our minds register the thoughts that are reflected as truth/awareness.) - Through this sort of perceptual exchange, reality is constructed by human beings; Human beings are constructed by this perceived reality.

So, the great peace of art must offer a dependable reflection or suggestion. Honest art reveals the honest artist: when a persons true self is presented – it helps us all build our concepts because we have so many elements confirmed. We recognized in artistic expression, elements we already recognize within ourselves. Once a thought finds an outside, independent match, we can then mark it as “confirmed.” With this in mind, it seems reasonable that we would gravitate towards sources, both human and representational, that not only produce a greater amount of confirmation, but perhaps more importantly, provide a highly accurate and trustworthy gauge – set forth particularly universal collections of self-confirmations and concept suggestions. de

Brass Tax:

Hello dear friends and visitors,
I wish to welcome you to this myspace page. I am very honored that you are taking the time to stop by. Here you can expect to browse into art related content, raw honest poetry,

and a range of discussions (in blogs) relating to philosophy, art, physics, programming, mathmatics, life, etc.

I am a nice guy. Also, If you are bored... I am one of the better cures for boredom.

For me, life is about creating. - art - creating relationships - creating memories - creating love - creating solutions etc. My activities are to this end - so I don't waste a lot of time on non-creative things like memorizing, criticizing, deconstructing, mimicking nor following.

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