Colin Warren: the blog

I’m trying very hard to get a bit more regular (eat more bran?) with this blog post writing thing – a good discipline to develop I think. So, I’ve got a few minutes and thought I’d share something that’s been bothering me a little.

I’m interested in so much stuff – there’s so much out there to see, to read, to discover. But I’ve got a problem – too much of it is piling up on the ‘to do’ pile and I’m not getting to it. Human beings are a creative lot, and some of us are better at it than others. Maybe in this modern day we have access to so much stuff (with the interwebs being able to give us immediate access to so much more material) it becomes mind boggling. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with curiosity but I’d love to have a little more time to follow up some of the things I discover. I suppose writing about them is useful and maybe that’ll become one of the themes of this blog. Our recent travels in Europe have given me a whole lot of other things I want to follow-up – arts, history, literature etc. I might have to make a plan so that I can be more systematic about it, but I don’t want to stifle the serendipity (and natural curiosity) of following my nose to discover new things…

Anyway we went to Melbourne last weekend and caught the Len Lye exhibition at ACMI just before it finished. Len was an interesting artist, pushing boundaries and creating sculptures, films, art and writing. I suppose passion and having space for ideas helps but you may also need to be in the right place at the right time as well as being forced to comply or be constrained by particular conditions. The exhibition gave a nice summary of Len Lye’s work and fired me up to see if there was any of his stuff available online – and it was. Check out Youtube for a taster… A thoroughly enjoyable display of the creative range of an amazing, driven talent and well worth the visit.