The creative process in detail.
Before I go on for a little bit longer, I like to emphasize that I am deeply disappointed by Steemit and Hive. Both outlets should be ashamed of their utter lack of a user interface that does not require a degree in Blockchain and Crypto. Sure, nowadays humans do know a lot about technology and specifically internet technology.
But instead of using this knowledge to create a fool proof platform that is reliable and allows for content providers to do just that, the knowledge is spread thin and wide. Like wikipedia is now the largest compendium of lies, propaganda and revisionism. With 'thin and wide', I want to express that 'knowledge' has been degraded to first and foremost pertain some algorithms in a server to which users are connected with everything they got. What Steemit and Hive still are and might never overcome, is the willfully and intentionally maintained demand TO KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT STEEM OR HIVE.
So, when I say that "content providers should be able to do just that", I speak about enabling next to ALL Human Beings to participate in the project - without the demanded depth of knowledge of the blockchain. In every aspect of the notion. Providing content should never require the kind of hoops and loops I had and still have to go through.
The most important philosophical principle made visible.
To make that clear though, You have of course all freedom to do as YOU ALL see fit. 'You all' are those, who are 'running' the platforms. Without any of YOU, the screen would remain dark. The specialists. Could it be that You have lost the vision? Could it be that You really can't see the forest because if those damn trees? If that is the case, swift action is required. Why? Because, as 'everybody' is lost in one form of 'translation' or another, important policies are implemented on a large scale.
It is the point of view that matters, not the points.
It will be necessary to recognize the existing point of view that drives the overall narrative. To be able to detect the underlying current of the present situation, requires nothing less than the oft cited "having no more illusions". What are illusions, when the reality surrounding them is irrefutable, cannot be altered, lessened or increased? Of course people can make up all kinds of stories about what they see, or hear, or smell, or taste, or touch. That though, leaves the origins of these stories untouched, intact. The cube in front of me will not turn into a sphere by encouragements alone.
This is then, where the creative process is visible the best. In the way the exterior world delivers, or offers all points as they indeed are, the Human Mind translates what it senses into some sort of a template that 'works' with the overall point of view the mind has. You could say that there is loss of realism - or factuality - when the mind overrides the truth to present it in a way it will fit to the illusion one is carrying forth. We only take up what we will be able to uphold at any time.
When the artist is awakened, or riled up enough to get the Human Interpreter going, a creative process is initiated, over whch the artist actually has as much control or influence as a surfer does over the wave. The artist surfs the wave of inspiration, or influence, or realization through a vibrational frequency of creativity. The surf board are the tools the artist peruses - or the other way around - when the artist allows the tools to work the artist towards the created blue print. In the specific case I am illuminating here, what I am sensing/observing, seeing, hearing, has created a dimensional vibrational frequency - reflecting everything that is sensed, or observed in any which way.
The original 'idea' was to create a chrome version. However, none of the filters that I have at my disposal would create the desired result. That's when the creative process runs amok. Because now I am really sitting there, manipulating each individual pixel of the area in question. The resolution I work with is 600x600dpi for print and 300x300dpi for T-Shirts. That is quite a number of pixels and I am truly thankful that the filters are well enough to reduce this kind of creative cranking to a lesser degree. Well, theoretically that is at least. Time and time again, the object/matter of attention has absolutely a life on its own and thus requires the artist to 'negociate' how it should be created.
It is impossible to say how long this ride might take. Something else is happening, too. This Trance-like condition goes on and on and on. Everything in the outside world effects everything in the inside world, as they are practically the same. So, when I then work on something and even lock myself away like in a quarantene, there will still be grey noise of all kinds of frequencies. Every progressing towards the result leads to another branch of the same basic idea - although now in a different fashion. No longer the same. Not quite, but still all one.
The original inspiration actually arose from another notion that shares the first three letters of this version. However N° 42.314, while the more commonly used three letter version focuses on the What-part, and thus remains on the surface, using the same three letters and adding a fourth letter under the mutation of the first will give You sort of a similar association, while maintaining the general expression of WTF. It is therefor a progression from making a statement about something one disapproves off towards an expression that asks to leave the present situation behind by waking up.
Looking at Human history, that has happened before, or maybe one should accept the fact that it never stopped. The sleeping part, that is. Since it is a metaphorical sleep, the recommendation to wake up from it is also a metaphorical one. As it is a kind of sleep that does not take place while sleeping. It requires to be awake to do this kind of sleep. 'Awake' in this context does not mean awakened, but merely present. Like the bureaucrat that makes Your life miserable is present, but neither awake, nor wakened.
When the overall tendency of the human minds to envision convenience is replaced with the vision for harmony, then the most important step has been taken. What is Harmony anyways, if not the alignment with, or the acknowledgement of - the Universe as an Organism. Mind You that everything You were told was just something You were told - until You experience it Yourself. What would it take to experience being the Universe like from the other side? From the point of view of the Universe. Is that possible at all, or just a rhetorical statement - not anchored in reality, or the world we live in? Is it possible to see the world as it is? With having been told how it is from day one of one's existence? Is being told right now on tv, internet, and et al to manipulate the minds of the people into forgetting where Homo Sapiens is coming from. Forgetting where we came from is akin to sleeping. A deep sleep that must be at that. Therefore it only appears to be a natural path to wake up first in order to take a good sensation of what is actually happening. Right now. Everywhere on this Blue Little Gem.
By going through the motions the Universe proposes of sorts, the variety of means of expression increases. Now, a shadow, a reflection, a slight variance in angle of lumination arouses a different approach. Save that one and get lost in the next one. On it goes and only the Universe might know what will happen further and most importantly, next. As the original 'idea' transforms into something new, containing aspects that came only about in conjunction with the environment in which they were conceived.
Now, the reason for the creation of an image to express a certain view might be infinitely fractured. Like there is no one single reason - as in there is no homogenous reason. Not one motive, but many. Each of these triggers has an however subtle influence on the finalized version. Another important aspect is, that, what might not work today, or now, may work 'later', or 'tomorrow'. Mind the fact, that 'tomorrow', or 'later' will come with their own dynamic as well. When the period of creation takes place over a long stretch of time, there will equally be a stretch of influences on the piece in the making. Or, like with many artist friends: There is so much in the making, that everything else in the making effects everything else in the making. Kurt Vonnegut once described the creative process of writing in the most brilliant way. In it, Cinderella and Shakesappear are the basic models for story lines. In a way, everything boils down to a few of these stories that were fed to the mind for a very, very long time. Have You ever, personally met a Cinderella? A 'Robin Hood'? All the other characters Homo Sapiens has invented over its existence? Leaving out the richest and most meaningful explanations of how everything came about, today, we as in 'us', better wake up quickly.
Yes, of course there are two 'pills'. But You got only one life to waste - now. And wasting our lives are most of us. Unable to cut the umbilical chord to bureaucrazy and I will write it as it is - crazy. Plus, as if the -cracy part would be any better. -cracy is just another euphemism for Having NO Say. In any of the -cracies You will not have a say. -cracies are definitely sooooooo yesterday. What is needed now is a fail proof direct participation in the process of walking Homo Sapiens out of the quagmire, or better shithole, the collective has allowed a few confused people to gain total control over the present period of human evolution. And I reiterate once more at this moment: just as You cannot bring back extinct life, if the environment the species required to show up in the first place, no longer exists. Like exterminating Bees to reduce the harvest - if any and make people depending on GMO food substitutes. Like most of the policies now have nothing to do with concern for the wellbeing of the masses. That wellbeing could be here long time ago - if it would not be for psychopaths like Gates or any of those who are doing exact the opposite of what is required to improve life on Earth, or, if You prefer, in the Nations of the World. In order to foment change something extraordinary is required. Homo Sapiens as a species, as the Collective, is definitely in demand to wake the fuck up.
Last but not least, just anybody tell me why my notification counter never stays reset? Anybody?
Next in this Theater: "Target Fascination as Life Style"
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It is completely understandable your opinion, particularly from your perspective as a content creator to the project(s).
In open source platforms of the past, like usenet, if one made similar criticisms they would be told to go and code it. It may still be the same yet present days find me an old retired fart not half as hip as my ego may have considered itself to be back in the day. 😎
It is true, though, that the power to bring such changes is an option to anyone caring to take the time and possessing the needed programming skills. The blockchain(s) have wonderful programming libraries in Python and Perl, now, which allows anyone to interface with the blockchain(s)'s data through self created scripts. If not many computer users can do that, then we must blame the dumbing down of computer users to
the psychopathic monopolist control freakBill Gates. To not to be able to program in the Information Age is comparable to not being able to write in the Industrial Age in my opinion.That said, my disappointment with the STEEM and HIVE projects is slightly different than yours. My disappointment is that there are two projects in the first place. The fork did not come forward with changes to the technology of the code at the time of the fork, like the block size issue of BitCoins' fork. Not even witness vote retention was addressed!
Instead, it was more an administrative action much like when Etherium had its fork. The difference was that one fork of Etherium (the newer version) rolled back the clock to prior to a smart contract creation which ended up unintentionally freezing muckmillions of tokens. With HIVE they, instead, rewrote history taking token wealth from some accounts and simply not registering the token wealth of others. It was based on power and vindicativeness in my opinion. Of course the narrative which was sold was with the intention of more decentralisation. Let's see how that worked out...
Do I interprete that correctly? From the Guppy to a Whale? Nice aquarium! Yes, my point is simply getting impatient with the overall direction of technology. Has it freed us really, or were there merits to stone tablets? Like no 'War and Peace' edition on stone tablets? Maybe a 'libratorium' were everyone can go to read it.
I wonder how many guys like Tondar from 'Caveman' really existed in those days. But I am pretty sure there are more of them now than ever before. Cooperation is the key. And double yes. We're there - at the place where we need to re-evaluate our values and visions.
Maybe, we have not progressed that much overall?
One spin off of this whole STEEM/HIVE fork that looks promising to me is OpenOrchard Project which will likely interface, if not use, much of the open source code of the STEEM/HIVE Project(s). A fair distribution of tokens with no pre-mined (Ninja) tokens is being promised. In my opinion both STEEM and HIVE are demonstrations of the failures in DPoS Governance at present.
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Yes.
What truly amazes me - albeit not necessarily in pleasant terms - is the unwillingness of the majority to meditate about the present situation as being the inevitable result of previously taken paths and decisions made. Arising from that must be a novel path that no longer accepts suffering and pain as ways to make a living. Making a living should also mean to make a life. Will the masses wake up to the universal truth that tomorrow cannot be better than today, if the today is not the best we are giving in terms of creativity. It is time for some sort of instrumentarium, where everybody gets a chance to participate, not just selected few.
One approach that might work is to weights ones stake in relation to the amount of rewards an account has taken from the ecosystem. Those that take the most would have their stake affected the most negatively. That way the status quo which give larger stake holders advantages would be more easily challanged like the witness vote retention for example.
My Dear! Whatever plagues the chain is what plagues the human mind. That is where it starts. Hive and Steem, Peakd into which I cannot sign in even with my Hive credentials, although I need a place, a home from which I express the Universe's point of view.
The whole system - blockchain and its interfaces - are better than what H.S. had 20 years ago. But no cake, yet.
What the fuck we need is a blockchain and interface that are accessible to everybody, but as You stated, bring in an algorithm, or simple statistics as to who it really is, that moves forward, or better upward on an evolutionary scale, so to speak. To not see this inability to come together and create a really breathtaking (no pun intended) communications network that each and every member of the species can peruse to make the most ot of their lives in terms of sense, meaning, fulfillment, enlightenment.
As tough, or sad as it may sound, but first we must 'fix' the collective insanity before we ever arrive at what You and I and a number of other visionaries can clearly see. Most clearly. And to make that equally clear - without a large enough number of dedicated and determined people to bring about urgently needed improvements for the ways it us done right now. Snitched on, spied on, manipulated - obviously - but also preserved - theoretically - for eventual future generations to see as clearly, who the real cocksuckers of our time are.
Apparently it is not possible to figure that out under the influence of it.
Target Fascination is m new fascination...
Update: The very moment I wrote the last sentences, iTunes played the words of Chief Seattle by Büdi Siebert. "The white man always wants to sell something."
White Man always wants to SELL something. That is his mental illness. Without addressing that, nothing can get better - ever.
So true! Capitalism's race after profit is the cause of most of our woes.