Hi all, I'm back from three days in Burlington. In addition to hanging with my brother which is always fun, I made some cool new friends including a fire dancer (see photo)and a photo-shy girl with an awesome pug (see photo).
I also hopped on over to Saranac Lake to visit Matt Burnett and see the completed installation at the 74/44 Gallery. It looks great and occupies the space really successfully. It turns out that the work I had made for the art machine was a tad too large to fit in the boxes they use for it. I was bummed but Matt gave me a bunch of the boxes so I can get them included in the machine for the next scheduled gallery walk.
I've been told that my blog posts are not long or deep enough; Well, while in Burlington I had a chance to see the film Inception, which itself is very long and very deep. It's Ocean's 11 of the mind! If you've seen it, how much (if any) do you think took place in the "real world"? Why didn't a certain character with a dead father recognize those who had manipulated his dreams once he awoke? Have you ever had a "waking dream" where you were aware you were dreaming and could do what you wanted? Tell me a some crazy dreams you've had and what(if anything) you think they meant.
I saw Inception over the weekend too - the first time I went to a drive in theatre.
ReplyDeleteI thought all of it that they made clear wasn't in a dream wasn't... until the scene when Mal still didn't think her world was real. Maybe it wasn't and everyone thought they were living their real lives. Good, thought provoking movie.
And I can't resist sharing a dream - a few weeks ago I dreamt that my friend and I (we used to work together at Price Chopper in Burlington) were working at City Market. There was a party going on in the store, except then a huge cow got into the building. So my friend and I were running around trying to catch the cow before anyone noticed. (I also realized after I woke up that the cow had been plastic and about twice as large as it should have been. Strange.)
Thanks Chelsea, cool dream. It's funny, many of mine involve parties and avoiding embarrassment too, although I don't remember any giant plastic cows:)
ReplyDeleteBack to Inception, my brother had a good observation; the criteria in the film for telling dreams from reality (dreams start in the middle and you don't know HOW you got to where you are in the dream, and they make sense when they are happening but don't hold up when you look back) could be applied to much of the film.
ReplyDeleteFor example, HOW did he arrive at his mentor's/father's classroom, and doesn't that seem like a common dream (talking with someone really important to you)? Then he meets the Juno girl in the hallway...