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10:11:2005 Entry: "Ann : Dice and Plants"
Dice and Plants
The whole concept of Role Playing Games is quite the anathema to me. I'm sorry, I'm just not interested. The whole D&D thing was like a joke to me when I was growing up, a secret ritual reserved only for the most clueless of pimple-faced male adolescents who would rather live in Fantasy Incorporated than experience music and art and the world outside. It makes no sense. I'm sorry, but it's like the whole thing is in code. It seems very ruleless, totally unlike games I understand...board games, card games, backgammon, etc. I mean if you're going to make up characters, just write a story, dammit. Fine. I'm close-minded. Whatever. But I tell you what I do like. The Dice. I use dice in art to make random decisions and selections. I know it's a bit silly, but sometimes you just need a bit of random objectivity instead of your own prejudices (would Eno be proud?). I have also been fascinated by the beauty of Geometry and the Platonic Solids. And of course I love stones. Don't ask me why I was doing a search on this, but I found this site, crystalcaste.com, and they have the most beautiful semi-precious stone dice...unakite, rose quartz, carnelian, botswanna agate, malachite, tiger eye, oh man, I am drooling over these little objects! --- This summer I found some incredible Coleus plants at assorted greenhouses around southern Wisconsin. By the end of the growing season, most had grown huge. I photographed them minutes before Stan gave them haircuts in order to over-winter them inside the house. Just an iPhoto webpage job, nothing fancy as I don't have time for that right now: Coleus 2005
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They were so beautiful and now they are mostly short bunches of stems. :(
Posted by Stan @ 09:23:2005:08:23 PM CST
Sticks.
Posted by Ann @ 09:23:2005:08:24 PM CST
Your dice method seems like a really good idea, much better than einy meany miny moe! As for RPGs, I never had a good enough imagination for them. Online rpgs like everquest, etc, at least have visual stimulation! I still can't do it though. Takes way to much time and energy- they are designed to take hours and hours tp play- at one sitting!
Posted by Dawn @ 10:02:2005:10:39 AM CST
Yeah, and who has time for that? Much rather do something creative.
Posted by Ann @ 10:02:2005:08:31 PM CST
Like corpsing :)
Posted by Dawn @ 10:03:2005:09:56 PM CST
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