Monday, November 24, 2008

"A Book Should Be An Ice Axe To Break The Frozen Sea Within us"


Humanities 1

“A book should be an ice-axe to break the frozen sea within us”.

A quote from Franz Kafka explains that a book should be an item, which releases your creativity, allowing you to think outside the box. Kafka says that a ‘book should be an ice ax to break the frozen sea within us’. If you were to literally think of a frozen sea within you, it is like an immobile sea trapping knowledge, curiosity, and thoughts. A book allows you to think things through so you can see the true meaning clearly. Having a frozen sea within us shows that we don’t see and do things different and special, but all the same. A book, which is represented as a weapon, is what will allow us all to break from the prison of non imaginativeness.

Kafka’s quote also explains that a book should allow you to break yourself free from your lazy ego. Kafka states that many people only have one point of view on the world but a book is what allows people to see things differently and act in a different way. The Fire Thief trilogy by Tearry Dearry broke the frozen sea within me. The book had created on a story from 3rd person view of a whole new story involving the same characters of the Greek myth, Prometheus. The book made me think, what if time traveling was possible? What if we could know god of the ancient Greek myths which traveled into our time. The trilogy kept me busy over the summer, making me wonder about our world today.


I chose this picture by Maurits Cornelis Escher because it seemed interesting how there’s a drawing of lizards, and then there are the real looking lizards. There are half alive half drawing lizards. Escher’s drawing shows that having only one point of view will only show you one side of the picture. A book is what will allow you to see things different and clearly see both sides of the picture. How a book can unleash the creativity in you allowing you to see the drawing both alive and drawn.


Sources:

http://faculty.smu.edu/cwsmith/Escher_1.jpg

Sunday, November 2, 2008

My Dtxpolorer Drum Set

I remember that day, the day i got my Drum Set. I was jumping around while the men who delivered the Drum set unpackaged and set it up. I would stay by the Yamaha employees, seeing exactly what they were doing. I kept reading the manual over and over again. I was eager to play it. I was eager to play an electric drum set for the first time in my life. My heart was pumping, I had spent nearly an hour and half just staring at the yet to be finished drum set. And as they finished setting the drum set up, I was running around the whole house with a big smile on my face.

The picture on the right is my Yamaha Dtxplorer Drum Set. Ever since I was young, I used to hit, tap, or clash items that would make an interesting sound all together. When I got older, I started to play the drums and it was soon after that I got my drum set. An electric drum set which you can play a song on so you could play a beat to match with the song. Different types of kits so you could make different sounds.

Even if now I could name a few flaws of an electric drum set, I felt that when I first got it, it was perfect. I would play it everyday and discovering something new everyday. Music is a big part of me and seeing that I can create music fills me great joy.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

First Blog Post! Cho Co. Late~

Hey, this is my first blog post.
My title
'If music be the food of love, play on' is a Shakespearean quote from the play twelfth night. I really don't know much about Shakespear but i always had an interest in his quotes. I have an interest in music so i took this quote.
And my URL, I made trying my best to link with my title. Even if it may sound weird, it is MY blog isn't it ?