In all likelihood, I really should be reading instead of blogging, distracting myself instead of digging in.

Although I keep telling myself books are my friends I don’t treat them as such. A simple plan now ruined by an unforeseen library trip. But these things have a neck of showing up.

Surprisingly I found books on Cinema 4D. Unsurprisingly none were found for modo.

The book that has been craving for my attention is miller’s Dark Knight Returns. Sorry Lyra, I picked you over the Cape Crusader.

And oh, if you are wondering, I did model that Mercedes SLR.

And am keeping my fingers crossed for Latiff to lose his memory about the books he borrowed me. No wait. I got a better idea. I am will connect to the infinite intelligence and command it to wipe his memory out. While I am at it I might as well take all the good stuff from his head.

To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
- Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)

If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.
- Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

Keep runnin’ don’t look back
Keep movin’ straight ahead
Keep goin’ don’t ever stop
There’s time to rest the day you’ll dropGet it together you can get it all

Concerning blocks.

Lately I am not experiencing writer’s block, artist’s block, or any other type of block, even while slogging through depression. I think it’s because I just don’t stop working even if I run out of inspiration.

Inspiration can be found. Ideas can be found. Work goes on. Inspiration can be lost. Ideas can be lost. Work goes on.

On and off, for all my life I’ve had periods of brooding vision. I don’t consider this a blessing or a curse. It’s just how my head works.
I’ll go with chance, for now, but I begin to suspect some sort of pattern. Anyway, yes, some of the render and designs I’ve done have come in flashes of my insanity.

That said, it’s not always like that. Some of them sort of discover themselves as they’re being created. The only way I could block myself is to stop working. Sometimes illness or circumstances stop it for me.

Sometimes, when that happens, it’s not a good thing. Too much stuff gathers in my head.
So, generally, I keep working.

But…

I don’t always feel inspired.

I work anyway. If I don’t have a specific idea that is setting me on fire, I just decide to make something ‘nice’. It has to be noted my definition of nice is a bit more sophisticated that your average teenage girl coming to terms with puberty.

Or it can be an idea on a subject plucked from the collection of notes and hordes of loose paper scattered all over my drawers.

It’s a good idea to keep plenty of paper and pens handy for those inspired moments. A blank notebook can be handy too. You can refer back to it in tough times and keep secret stuff in it too.

When I feel most uninspired, I drag my sorry ass to the computer and I start working and, without fail, I get into it and a twist or play on words or metaphor emerges and grows into an idea. Music doesn’t really help as I get more distracted by it. And coffee. God, I love Mocha.

Sometimes you just have to let go and let give.

Once in a while you have to stop thinking and just see what happens. Not by standing there and staring at the blank page, but by typing something, drawing some lines.

A lot of writers and artists believe that we can train our brains to be ‘on’ by working at the same time every day. That makes sense. Why not? Everything else we learn works that way.

But I believe that the act of working stimulates the creative process and that exercising creativity makes it stronger.