Friday, December 30, 2005


Aesthetic Truth

As many of you would know I spend a lot of time consuming media, whether it be in the form of television, movies, music, radio or literature. Lately I’ve been listening to WebRadio via iTunes; largely due to the fact that I received an iPod for Xmas (thanks Mum & Dad). I’ve found a really good online radio station… Indie 103.1 which operates out of Los Angeles, and has many notable radio hosts including Dave Navarro (former lead guitarist of Janes Addiction), Rob Zombie (White Zombie) and the Suicide Girls just to name a few.

I was listening to Dave Navarro’s weekly show, while reading Bernard Tschumi’s latest book Event Cities 3 and on his show was a lady called Christina Dolce aka Forbidden. A little background on Christina, she is essentially a 26 year old blonde model/makeup artist from Orange County and loves Nine Inch Nails – so naturally I am in love with her. She is better known as Forbidden, which is her internet nickname on myspace.com. Essentially by loading up a profile of herself and various pictures on this website she has gained a bit of notoriety and scored a modeling manager etc. You can find her profile at www.myspace.com/forbidden

So she’s on the radio station answering some calls from people regarding her various projects and one guy rings in with what was for me the most interesting question of the night. Forbidden seems to have a certain type of guy she is attracted to, and it comes across quite clearly on her website. This guy asks “if a guy were to approach you and didn’t have the appearance of the type of guy you normally would be attracted to, would he still have any chance with you?” Naturally her response was something along the lines of “oh I’m cool with any type of guy”, the most diplomatic of responses.

At this point Dave Navarro chimes in and drops a pearl of wisdom… “It’s just an aesthetic dude, to attract like minded people, so once they arrive you can then really get to know the person; what’s below the surface. It’s the same thing that you see when you look at forbidden… you like what you see so you want to get to know her better.”

This is an interesting point in terms of my own understanding of self. How much role does the “aesthetic” play in terms of vibe? I’m not going to look to find answers; however, it would stand to reason that your self image would have an impact on ones vibe. Logical right?

If one is to give off the right vibe, their outward projection of themselves in their physical appearance must relate to the astral body (or true nature of self). What makes me wonder, however, is this an unconscious thing? Do we naturally appear how we understand our self at that time? Does “fashion” play a role in suppressing our astral body? More questions for investigation.

It’s quite fitting that this clarification of thought was stimulated by the words of a rockstar, as image is so important to the success of the rockstar. I guess my conclusion is that for one to give off the right vibe one must work to understand them self and then project the true aesthetic.

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Thursday, December 29, 2005


Reflections

Lately I’ve found myself questioning my reality more and more… it sounds somewhat cryptic right, something that a theologian, philosopher or acid fiend would say (the three are not all that different in my experience). I’ve been experiencing lucid dreaming more and more lately – a lucid dream taking place during sleep but feels so real you can almost trick yourself into thinking that you’re awake – which I attribute to the fact that I have reached a point where I want to understand my sense of self.

It all started a number of weeks ago, when I was reading about chakras… at the time it was merely a joke; it however triggered a thought that perhaps there is some sort of truth to this “science.” Could it be that we in fact project a sense of self that is intangible, displaced from our physical being. We talk a lot about “vibes” referring to some sort of psychic phenomena where a feeling is generated by an objects existence (person, space, art anything) which we receive unconsciously. Artists deal a greatly in “vibes” I think, creating emotion through something that is inanimate, a sense of poetry of soul as Bachelard would describe derived from the shaping and treatment of a particular medium or material.

I wondered then, what vibe do I give out? I can’t simply go out and ask people… as the theory of relativity would state that while I may be seen doing the same thing by two different people they would interpret my actions in a different way thus feeling a different vibe. How then would I be able to find my vibe? I began to research Auras.

An Aura is essentially an energy field that surrounds living things and its colour a reflection of the unconscious state of being of that particular object. Thus if a vibe is an unconscious feeling we receive then the answers would lie in the understanding of what is unconsciously projected, reflecting in our aura.

As I write this particular entry, I’m thinking that perhaps this blog can become a diary of my investigations into understanding self. At this early stage, it would seem that there are some key points that require a great deal of exploration – that is auras, psychic energy, astral planes of existence, meditation, perception and reality. A reflection is but an echo… but how is the sound made…

To the non-heavy stuff… I’ve been busily trying to get myself ready for my trip to Italy. There is a hell of a lot of stuff I still need to do. I’ve got the important stuff though; heavy jacket, good shoes, thermals, beanie and gloves. Learning Italian isn’t really so hard, it’s a pretty logical language…you just have to understand the logic first I suppose… :)

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