Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Taste the sound of a second - Hear the Smell of a Moment

I'm going to admit that I had a really hard time with this assignment. I ran through several thoughts before I finally settled on the one that I did and even then, I feel like more could have been taken away from it. 
Every day I go on a two mile walk along the White River Trail. Usually on this little jaunt I mold ideas for my stories or art or ruminate on any issue that may be dragging me down. However, yesterday I decided to take that time and dedicate it to my assignment. So instead of spending the trail in my head, I concentrated on how the walk felt. I began to notice the position of the sun, the strength of the wind, the tightening in my chest from seasonal allergies beginning to affect me. I noticed the way my shoes rubbed on my feet and how my right leg began to pull (because technically that leg is crooked, but that's another entry). The end result is mapped:

So I got the "use another sense" thing down, but the whole "experiment  with time" aspect was kind of neglected. Unless you count that the trip is a circle in which case I both started and ended at point A, putting a circular path in a linear timeline. But I feel like that really doesn't count. So instead I have another example of playing with time.
Electro Swing is a music genre that takes music from the Swing era (1940-ish) and adds a dance beat to it. This video illustrates that well since the dance style is also a hip hop/swing mix. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FALYmqt-7TQ
This shows time play by taking the style of the past and remaking it to fit into today's atmosphere.
So touch and anachronisms: that's my "Tasting the sound of a second." 
 

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