Ten random facts regarding myself, creativity, art and beauty:

1. I can't draw anything by hand no matter how hard I try.
2. This led me to think for a long time that I was neither creative nor artistic.
3. I have always been a very good musician. Why I didn't think that was an art, I'm not sure.
4. I've come to find that I like three very specific types of artistic endeavors best - image manipulation, object arrangement and jewelry beading.
5. Those also happen to be the three artistic endeavors I don't suck at.
6. I feel about art the way I feel about music - I appreciate some things that I don't like, and I like some things that lack any appreciable qualities whatsoever except that they're fun.
7. Fun is underrated in art, music, books and movies. There is nothing wrong with watching a completely useless movie just because it's amusing. Ditto books. And I'm sorry, but just because a song gets radio play doesn't make it somehow less valuable.
8. You might guess from the above that I'm a pop-culture junkie, but I'm really not. I don't watch too many movies or TV shows, and I'm not into the hippest new music. I just hate the contrived elitism of people who can rattle off every foreign subtitled film they've seen in the last three years but who have never seen a Drew Barrymore romantic comedy, or who think the only bands worth supporting are those who have never had mainstream airplay.
9. I'm done with that rant now. I'm sorry. I apologize a lot, especially for any artistic attempts. I don't know exactly why.
10. I've always been considered an above-average writer but I very rarely enjoy writing. When I do write something that I like, such as the poems I've posted on dA, it is almost never the result of any effort whatsoever - more like the idea comes to me whole and I write it down and I put it away. Occasionally I revise, but that's about it. I've always thought this to be a shame. I like to imagine if I put some effort into it, I might create something memorable.

That's all for today. Just felt like sharing.
~Joan~