In addition to being slightly chronophobic, hydrophobic, and struggling with small metaphysical crisis, I realised recently that I am absolutely terrified that people whom I meet and talk to and am a friend and a family member to will not understand me because they don't get the full picture.
Explanation: In an average 5 minute conversation with someone, they gather a fair amount of info about you. But what if that info is coming from your weird side? I'm sure I'm not the only one out there who has sides, or rather, facets, of character. I'm like a big blanket knitted with lots of different kinds of yarns in different weights and colours, even knitted on different sized needles. That sounds chaotic. It is. But I'm not crazy or silly or serious or angry all the time. I pass through these moods hundreds of times per day. And I know I'm not bi-polar, whatever evidence there is to the contrary. So, when I talk to someone, they may just catch me in one mood and then have that as their opinion of me forever! Anyone else get this? I really need to stop worrying about it. I need to stop feeling like after every conversation with someone I need to explain myself to them.
Here are some random links that are really fascinating and that I've just come across in the past month or so:
http://www.globalization-group.com/edge/resources/color-meanings-by-culture/ Colours have always interested me: how they are used across cultures, what they mean to different groups and people. I've been thinking about it in terms of fashion design for fictional cultures.
http://tve.org/biomovies
http://www.ritdye.com/dyeing-techniques/wax-less-batik-dyeing
http://www.thewrendesign.com/the-story-behind-african-wax-print-cloth/
http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20120904/upper-east-side/times-running-out-for-upper-east-side-clock-repair-shop
http://phobiapoems.tumblr.com
Spotlights on youtube people:
I really recommend watching these fabulous ladies. Start from the beginning.
Squaresville Just....yeah. It's pretty effing brilliant. And it really impresses upon you that you can make your own original series if you just have a good camera and an imagination.
LBD (All these series are gathering a cult following, but not in a weird way. Like, an amazing, we're-all-awesome-here-vibe way.)
Vsauce
Clicker training! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqU6R4cZcgM&feature=plcp
This is also the strangest thing: http://www.vice.com/read/asmr-the-good-feeling-no-one-can-explain
Ta for reading!
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