Pressed for Tick Tocks.

I screwed up kinda, sorta significantly today as far as skin picking goes. But hey, I still had a good day. Ironically, I'm still making great strides and improvements in my skin picking episodes. I could have stopped the mini-picking episode that happened tonight, but didn't. It's weird, your mind is telling you to stop, pleading with you to stop... but you just don't. It's so odd.

In any case, I did damage, but not as much as before I started blogging. And although it may be hard to comprehend my logic in this, I'm fine with it. Life is full of weird mistakes. But in the end, I see myself curing this skin picking madness of mine.

Now... Off to finish my LAST and FINAL presentation for Intro to Theatre! I have lots of video clips to show because... trying to define theatre movements such as dada, happenings, and performance art in words is a little bit difficult.

I guess I can sum them up like this:

Dada = very illogical, chaotic, random noises/voices, out of key music, madness
Happenings = involves the audience in the creation of art; happens anywhere/anytime/anyplace; no right or wrong way of 'making it happen'
Performance Art = live art, but is not theatre; related to conceptual art; experimental/avant garde/challenges status quo*; limitless in possibilities

*all of them challenge the status quo actually -- in varying degrees

Dada and Happenings began in the 1950s and earlier. They basically fed the artistic expression that is Performance Art. Multimedia and Futurism did too as well, but I won't really be going into those in my presentation though they are interesting reads.

Nevertheless, all of these art forms remind me of 'hippie art'. You know... that era of freedom, love, and war protest. 'Protest art'! That's the term I was looking for. :)

But all art no matter what form it is in, can be a form of protest and make a statement.

OK, so for REALS now... I'm off to finish the conclusion of this presentation! I kind of work backwards... I create the presentation, then create the outline, then the bibliography. What can I say, I procrastinate and now I'm super pressed for time!

Not that doing it in that order is any faster, but it works ME! :)