Got home today after a particularly shitty day and for some reason I was furious at everything. I tried to transfer some music to my tape recorder only to find it was broken. Then I tried to fix my scanner, and I had no luck there either. It was pretty frustrating and I’m surprised either of those devices made it through the evening alive.
Clearly, technology wasn’t working out for me. So when I was the most frustrated, I went “analog” and grabbed a pen and some graph paper and started to just draw. The image I was chasing in my head was similar to the cover of Flying Lotus’ Cosmogramma in that it was just a bunch of lines converging and doing strange things.
It came out as a glorified doodle, and I wont say its any good, nor is it particularly moving, but it did accomplish something. It calmed me down. Afterward I felt considerably more relaxed and creative. So I brewed some coffee (in a stock pot because my coffee maker recently became a cockroach tenement) and dropped my “piece” into it to dye it a little, and then to “mount” my “art” I cut out a piece of a pizza box and wrote “LETS GET REALLY HIGH AND LISTEN TO METAL” on it.
Boom. Art. Done.
So if you are ever stressed and need to clear some fury from your brain, grab a pen and paper or better yet, grab anything that you feel semi-confident “creating” with and don’t think, just start working. Its better for stress relief than drinking or yelling or throwing a 90’s tape recorder at a wall as hard as you can.
Tags: Art, death metal, flying lotus, Speed Creating