Hi. I'm Derek Felten and this is my blog and portfolio.
That sounds a lot more sophisticated than it actually is. Mostly, I just fiddle around with photoshop and express my beliefs about life and art.
Everything you see on this website is anti-copyright 2006-2007 though I would like a shout-out if you share it.
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Freewebs (the company that hosts this website) emailed me the other day to tell me that they're going to be putting a banner on all of the websites they host. I checked, and, not-surprisingly, the banner is ugly. I've been thinking of switching away from Freewebs for awhile, and this is probably the final straw.
I don't know what that means for the future of this website. Creatively, I feel like I'm headed in a much different direction than I was six moths ago, which is to say I feel like I actually have a direction in which to head. The mediums that I'm focusing on are more traditionally creative: visual art, fiction writing, photography, etc. and I think at this point it is important for me to indulge these skills before they atrophy. At the same time, I realize that focus on these skills will trade off with a lot of the more analytical processes employed in the writing of this blog.
Preface: I'm going to be pseudo-political and discuss religion and also be negative. I haven't done that in awhile and I just want to make sure that anyone who may be offended by the following knows that I fully intend to offend them because I think they have horrible opinions. I suppose this is the opposite of an apology.
I'm not sure exactly how trends work, or why they're so magnetic, but I can only identify three that I've really gotten into: yo-yos, Pokemon, and Harry Potter. With the exclusion of yo-yos, large sectors of the Christian population have strongly opposed, and even condemned most of the the big trends I've been alive to experience (Dungeons & Dragons and the Da Vinci Code also come to mind) on the grounds that they will infect the minds of impressionable youth with evil, satanic ideas. Recently, I've been seeing the same type of opposition popping up in relation to the movie production of The Golden Compass.
Polaroid pictures -- mediocre. Mine, that is; However, Good pictures I ran across. New Music -- The Long Winters. Writing. A lot. Maybe a sample (here) soon? I don't like how this is sounding. I'm going to try out for a play. I feel like I've done a lot of beneficial, productive, creative things lately. I'm really tired all the time. I want to go swimming: to float.
I base my assumptions on others around our similar and differing interests. It's as if every person exists only in relation to me. I don't care about your story, I can learn everything I need to know about you from comparing our musical interests. Oh, you listen to Creed? I don't think we'll be friends.
Philosophically, it would seem a rather well precedented idea - Descartes' "cogito" forms the basis for the majority of (post) modern philosophy and psychoanalysis. However, I think the error occurs when we begin to extrapolate that idea. "I think, therefore you are" is certainly a less sound philosophy, but it's how people think nonetheless.