Darren Daz Cox, now in Pekin Illinois!
Chaos Theory Inspiration begins
First of all I want to say that one person can make a difference, and you can prove this to yourself this week.
Look at the comments on a blog post and find one that is written well and see if that person has a blog of their own, chances are they do! Poke around in that persons archives and see if anything catches your fancy, if so then write a comment of your own. The less comments that blogger has, the more important yours becomes, especially if that blogger slogs on with little or no comments.
This isn’t charity and don’t do this for reciprocal karma, just connect in the simplest way with someone who is trying to express themselves to the world. Bloggers aren’t writing a secret diary, they want you to read what they wrote and when they read your comment you will be part of a ‘butterfly effect’ that will affect their upcoming posts. There’s no point in being fake, allow the buffer zoneof digital communication to allow you freedom to write what you feel ( thank you Nicola Aaron Onychuk!).
I know this sounds cheesy or new-agey or just naive but it’s based on observed physchology and personal experience.
Ok, I’ve been writing this post for 2 hours, I started it after reading Mrs.Chilis book list and deciding that my comment needed a post of it’s own, after writing the words "buffer zone" I sudenly remembered an inside joke with my friend Nicola, so I looked her up in google, I found her linkedin which lead me to facebook where I wrote a little note, synchronistically another of my high school friends, Todd Crull, had just found Me on Facebook. I wasn’t exactly popular back then and I can’t name more than a dozen people I even knew in HS so the odds of this are pretty slim I’d say, we’re all in our 40s you know!
But it’s not coincidence, it’s synchronicity, and there’s more.
While tracking down Nicola I spontaneously added Chaos Theory Inspiration as an interest to my linkedin profile. I figured I’d better google the words Chaos Theory Inspiration and weirdly it only had two hits! One was a corporate CD site with a list of band names and titles that randomly matched my search and the other was a blog post from August 19, 2005, a post that no one had commented on, in a blog just like I was talking about earlier, one with few comments but a blogger that persists in his/her craft!
That blog post said "it’s making me want to start updating my rarely-updated attempt at doing a zine again." which is exactly what I’ve been thinking about for the past couple of weeks. I was recently a member of a current events group where we had a shared interest of doing something to stop the things that we all believed to be wrong and I suggested making ‘zines and distributing them around our communities to spread our word.
I used to make ‘zines and loved my fellow punk rockers homemade efforts, smudgy black and white uncensored xerox copies with bad poetry, band reviews and doodles. How excellent it was to DIY and self-publish. The best thing about ‘zines are that they are cheap to make so I figured this would be a worthwhile avenue to explore but after a few weeks I realized that writing against something isn’t as effective as writing for something and that’s why I left that discussion group. I’m done with being against things.
I figure that I should make a ‘zine with just art and inspirational things and it would affect a better change in society than telling people that the evil lizard men, in cahoots with the government, are trying to take your rights away haha! Don’t get me wrong, I still believe that the evil lizard men are forever perpetuating evil, but that their evil is made reality when people are angry and violent against their fellow man.
***update! now there are 870 more hits for the term, chaos theory inspiration (in quotes),
(c/p from Google) Results 1 – 10 of about 872 for "Chaos Theory Inspiration". (0.05 seconds)
haha! and there were no images indexed for "chaos theory inspiration" when I wrote this, but now there are 167! and most of them my artwork! yea!
***update October 15 2009 now there are thousands more hits! (but some are for a band called Chaos Theory that uploaded a song called Inspiration after I had the first use of those words!)
(c/p from Google 22,800 for "Chaos Theory Inspiration".)
What I wonder is, if it’s truely "chaos theory" is when does this post connect in a synchronous way to something else important to me hmmmm
Originally posted 2008-03-07 10:48:49. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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March 7th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
You just never know what the web is going to turn up next.
Synchronicity: Darren was always teasing me about the romance novels I read in high school (I never went anywhere without something juicy to read, least of all class– and I still don’t). When the sophomore yearbooks came out, we each pledged never to show the our respective photos to *anyone*, because I think I speak for both of us when I say that school pic was the dorkiest one ever taken of either one of us. Now (here’s the synchronicitous part), in that yearbook, Darren wrote a goofy little poem about being there (and putting gum on my seat) someday when I won a prize for writing one of those gooshy smooshy romances.
I have yet to write a romance novel (although I have tried). A couple months ago though, I started blogging about the ones I read, at alphaheroes.blogspot.
Returning to the present day, Darren, I love your art. I love how liquidy the flowing lines look. (I do sort of miss Joe Blood, though, and his left-handed axe).
You can find my husband’s art at mechronomicon.blogspot.com — you might like it.
March 7th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
ps., OMG, the buffer zone!!
You made my brain hurt trying to remember that.
I did, though: Balkans. Aspirin. Secretaries.
Thanks, Mr. Child.
March 7th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Comments truly do make all the difference, don’t they, Daz? I love reading the wonderful comments I receive on my blog (yours included!), and I’m fortunate enough to get some on every post now. However, I do remember when I was just starting out, and I got absolutely none at all. You really do feel as though you are writing out into a void.
Also, I would just like to second Nicola on the fabulous liquidity you feature in your art. When I was flicking through the poetry book I’m giving away, I came across a poem that made me think of that exact same quality I see when I look at your work:
Upon Julia’s Clothes
When as in silks my Julia goes,
Then, then (methinks) how sweetly flows
That liquefaction of her clothes.
Next, when I cast mine eyes and see
That brave vibration each way free,
O how that glittering taketh me!
by Robert Herrick
Isn’t ‘liquefaction’ just an amazingly evocative word?
March 14th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Is that dragon art on your Flickr, and if so is it “blogable”? I’d love to feature it on my blog.
BenVarkentines last blog post..Anne Hathaway has the ability (as an actress) to pull you into whatever emotion her character is feeling at the time
March 15th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
Hi Ben, yes all my art is bloggable from Flickr, please use what you like and inspire as many people as you can!