What do I think of it? Well, I dunno yet. The thing to me looks interesting but I think it's meant to highlight our own culture and the ones around us. Are we building understand? Knowledge? Compassion? All of theses things? Or am I missing the bullet train all together?
I guess I should talk about this task they set us. To post things that inspire us as makers because we're all artist, filmmakers and directors now. Long gone is the title of student of at least that's what my tutor says. I dunno if I am a film maker yet, or an artist or even a director. I guess it's one of them things that comes with time.
Back to task, we're meant to make post of people that inspire us, that are alive and still makes work.
Now here I am breaking the rules, but now I hear you sayin' "But Gina, S.E. Hinton ain't dead!", please, I know that, all her books don't have the da
te and place where she died printed in them. But I do think she is not writing anymore, but I maybe wrong. At least the piece I chose is old, my favourite book actually if you must know.
Now I hear what your sayin' "But Gina, you can't be sayin' a writer counts as an artist are you?!"
Well, gosh damn it I am. And you know why? Because they are, they make, craft, obsess and suffer for their craft as much as any painter, photographer or scalper does. That's why she's here because she inspires me as much as any Van Gogh or Monet or even as much as a Louis-bloody-Vuitton.
Sorry I get of topic easily, as you can see from this ramble. Now back to basics....
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S.E. Hinton (Susan Eloise Hinton) was born in July 22 1945 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.
She started her career as a writer when she was a student at Will Rogers High School at the age of seventeen with the book "The Outsiders" which was published in her Freshman year at the University of Tulsa.
Hinton was inspired to write "The Outsiders" after the disturbing clashes between two gang at her high school between the Greasers and the Socs (the Socials).
The story of "The Outsiders" is about Ponyboy Curtis a loyal Greaser and deep thinking who wishes for a better life while loving what he has. In the story Ponyboy discovers a like minded thinker, crime, murder, escape, death and one of he most important thing of all learning the difference between being tough and being strong.
Why does "The Outsiders" inspire me? Because every chapter touches on me as a person, it makes me think and if a piece in any shape or form, painting, clothing, writing, whatever doesn't get me thinking then I don't see the point. In art in all its forms after you've done looking, after you've done feeling, you really got to start thinking. If something don't do that, then what's the point. The point indeed.
Now I'm sure lots of you won't pick this because "oh ay she's not doin' it right!" then BAH! I'm saying what inspires me and saying it plain and simple, how many of you can say that, huh?
I think.
Do you?
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