Nil
Whoa, awesome!!
:mittens:
Like it a lot. "what if Discordia had a sort of pop-idol?" :)
First part of the story had me wikipedia-ing for this guy's name (often enough famous people's names are posted and I have no idea who they are), but there's like 8 of them on wikipedia :) How did you come up with the name?
Also, dunno if you've seen the movie "So Fucking What", but it sort of explores the same topics. Not gonna say which ones in your story specifically, you'll have to watch it ;-) It's a pretty good movie (IMO)
I just wanted to put a word to the idea, and chose 'Cressing' randomly. From there I developed the idea of a movement defined by the individual. There's nothing significant about the term at all.
I want to do a series of these.
This was so well thought out I thought it was all real.
And that's the best compliment I can give.
Thank you very much Kai.
000: I watched the film, and see the links. I didn't mind it.
I really like this.
if I could add anything it would be more examples of what it looks like when people create their own narratives
Quote from: Cramulus on November 17, 2010, 06:50:25 PM
if I could add anything it would be more examples of what it looks like when people create their own narratives
Yeah, that would be a cool follow-up :)
Also, what Kai said (which is what I tried to say in my prev post)
Also, just playing around here, developing some structures. I want to let this exist separate to the 'story' element.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KPjMWHZm5tBJm6t_bc0olEBApSwxJ1NSz-ZpvYIeMhM/edit?hl=en&authkey=CL7JhJQK
that was great!
:)
Nil
I really need to start putting effort into building on my own ideas. That MacGuffining activity isn't anything I've ever heard of before, but I have engaged in it with my friends, except that I called it a "quest". I really need to start building on that.
And I really like both the Cressing idea and the stories. They look like they could be real. :mittens:
These writery bits are awesome. 'Cressing' sounds like how I keep myself from going insane(er) and going on a killing spree. I might have to pay attention and start playing with it more seriously.
Quote from: Unqualified on November 24, 2010, 09:50:51 PM
I really need to start putting effort into building on my own ideas. That MacGuffining activity isn't anything I've ever heard of before, but I have engaged in it with my friends, except that I called it a "quest". I really need to start building on that.
And I really like both the Cressing idea and the stories. They look like they could be real. :mittens:
Well actually I was going to call it questing but the term McGuffon came to me. It's an idea from Hollywood (possibly Hichcock), with a McGuffon being an object with no function beyond extending the action.
If anyone would liek to sshare experiences about things like this that you've already tried or seen, please let me know. I'd be very interested.
Also, I'm out of my one horse town and back to the city in a week (and a few days) so I'm hoping to do some road tests then too.
Nil
Shit yeah! Really glad to see this thread pop up again!
This idea influenced this story I'm working on. I'm not using Cressing in the story, but rather I'm using blending narrative and reality together in the story. So thanks for writing this.
Quote from: Dr. James Semaj on May 04, 2011, 10:16:01 PM
Shit yeah! Really glad to see this thread pop up again!
This idea influenced this story I'm working on. I'm not using Cressing in the story, but rather I'm using blending narrative and reality together in the story. So thanks for writing this.
Awesome! Do share when you have something ready.
QuoteAwesome! Do share when you have something ready.
Will do.
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Ive mentioned before that I have been doing my own Cressing stuff, which is really just Lo5ing in a way that informs decision making. I like the 'toolkit' of activities but am not keen on trying these without a partner.
I met a girl locally into the BDSM scene. She had a book on Japanese bondage, the photographer of which was called Circle23 and from Portland. 23! Portland! A link for sure; so I begin to look into that world...
... And look it up on a forum I find. This forum has only one thread on Japanese rope... Posted on my Birthday! A wink! On the right track.
So following different threads. Japan. Kink. Discordia.
I meet a girl from Japan on OK Cupid. Fan of Andy Warhol. When I go to add her to Facebook, I do a few things to make it less lame. I don't like doing the about me so I arbitrarily replace it with a band bio from last fm. I click on Velvet Underground, once produced by Warhol and discover that they're named after a sadomasochistic novel (as is one of the tracks on the Warhol album). A link? A wink at least!
"Kismet"... It means both Luck and Destiny. It's so cress!
You're so crescent fresh (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qU_gEiSbIU)
super cres at best!
Love Kismet. Also, now anytime I think of Cressing I get that damn song in my head :argh!: .
Threads are linking up like crazy.
Japanese Warhol Girl is interested in Shibari, Japanese rope art, which I was directed towards a course on from the girl locally into kink. I'm meeting with the Japanese girl in a bit under a year in Singapore. Like Cram's Reality Safari, it feels like since getting something started, riding it has been pretty easy. In recent times there hasn't been a clear connection to anything else. I'm dating with the local girl but I don't want to treat a relationship like an experement so I'm saying that there's a point where previous elements stop being links and just get absorbed into life.
Current connection points.
Japan
Shibari
Warhol
The Velvet Underground
SM Classic Literature
Certain Japanese Kanji
RIP SLYME
(also considering the direction this is going atm, if you want to move it out of LC I don't mind).
Contacted a girl on OK Cupid. Her page seemed really interesting, but I didn't contact her straight away.
Then, her profile appears as recently updated.
I email. She replies.
Soon she has a new profile picture. The caption says she sometimes does photography as different characters. Bonus points on offer if you know who shes dressed as.
She's wearing a red dress, and holding a golden apple.
Quote from: Placid Dingo on August 09, 2011, 01:00:24 PM
Contacted a girl on OK Cupid. Her page seemed really interesting, but I didn't contact her straight away.
Then, her profile appears as recently updated.
I email. She replies.
Soon she has a new profile picture. The caption says she sometimes does photography as different characters. Bonus points on offer if you know who shes dressed as.
She's wearing a red dress, and holding a golden apple.
OH I KNOW! She's Atalanta!
Met that girl, along with her friend. They chatted and knitted at a cafe. Not many interesting links. She had a moustache based tshirt, but thats more of a wink.
HOLY SHIT HOW DID I MISS THIS
I've been checking TFY;S for like a year now and not all that much exciting stuff had been posted.
Someone should have told me that all the cool kids moved to LO.
This is awesome. Do you have any plans to write some more longer pieces for it? I love the "journalist gets sucked into the story" narrative (seen it happen to a lot of people in the last couple of years) and I think it would work as a booklet, if there's a good wrapping up point. Leave it on subway cars or bathroom stalls with the last page talking about "this is your wink" or something. I dunno, it's great writing anyway, I totally bought it until someone mentioned it not being real.
Quote from: Queen_Gogira on February 02, 2012, 01:58:34 PM
This is awesome. Do you have any plans to write some more longer pieces for it? I love the "journalist gets sucked into the story" narrative (seen it happen to a lot of people in the last couple of years) and I think it would work as a booklet, if there's a good wrapping up point. Leave it on subway cars or bathroom stalls with the last page talking about "this is your wink" or something. I dunno, it's great writing anyway, I totally bought it until someone mentioned it not being real.
I got a little burned out when a lot of my 'leads' with doing this irl kinda went nowhere and forgot about that literary aspect. I did set myself up to pursue this as a longer project, and it might be the key to kicking me out of a creative slow patch.
No time like the gray days of February to get out there and weird something up :)
Man, you weren't kidding when you said this was up my alley. You write rather extremely believably as well.
I've had quite a few spurts of unofficial cressing in the past few years. (As I'm sure many on these forums have)
Right now synchronicity acts like wind for me.
Sometimes it's a good day for sailing and sometimes you're just stuck on the beach.
I'd love a way to trigger these sort of intuitive events and decisions and these methods seem promising.
I ordained a cress book today and I am prepared to scribble down whatever my next lead is.
One immediate benefit to simply having the mindset is that I'm feeling much more artistically inclined than I have been lately.
Also, this:
Quote from: Placid Dingo on May 10, 2011, 03:04:46 PM
I think that a good book to use as an inspiration here is the Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart. we see a psychiatrist fall into an obsession with embracing chance and randomness. he cheats on his wife, and well, goes COMPLETELY off chops at various points... but this is distracting from the point.
definitely feels like foreshadowing.
That's rad!
I didn't think of that bit as foreshadowing at the time, though thematically I want to go to some of those same places.
For the record, Dice Man is totally worth reading.
Jesus, Dingo. I started googling "Cressing" and then "Chris Cresswell" before I reached the end to gain some context while I was reading. It wasn't until I reached Kai's comment before I realized why I wasn't finding anything definitive. This is really well done.
Yeah, this is some really god stuff.
This is awesome! I really like the writing, and the idea itself. When I was pointed toward this thread I was thinking about people creating narratives for their lives, but in a limiting way. People creating (or even passively absorbing) a narrative for themselves, believing it to be definitive version of their life, and getting trapped by it. But it's something everyone does, to some extent, to help give our lives definition.
"The difference is we remember that our narratives are false."
Yes! Love it. I also like the idea of creating a narrative as a way to "move the action forward", as it was put. Great thinking material.
Thanks all for the feedback.
I am insanely busy up to July but after that I want to get up to some hardcore creative energy and this is one of the projects I want to hit.
Nil
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Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on February 02, 2012, 01:58:34 PM
This is awesome. Do you have any plans to write some more longer pieces for it? I love the "journalist gets sucked into the story" narrative (seen it happen to a lot of people in the last couple of years) and I think it would work as a booklet, if there's a good wrapping up point. Leave it on subway cars or bathroom stalls with the last page talking about "this is your wink" or something. I dunno, it's great writing anyway, I totally bought it until someone mentioned it not being real.
BTW Gorigia, it's all CC, so if you want to do somewthing with it, please feel free.