So yesterday we were in MoMA in NY snooping around the Tim Burton thing (indoor traffic jam!).

First of all thank you to the two lovely ladies standing in front of us somehow were able to conveniently talk above the rest of the crowd mayhem about their non-sensical day...again.
it was fine until the saliva showers starting happening (looked like one of the Burton sketches that were on the wall - the one with the funky monsters/demons jumping from the guys mouth into the girls face). thankfully, i did get something out of it (in those 5 minutes that i was focused) before the people pushing in line got the better of me.

so as much as it may be common sense for everyone else, i realized for myself/reminded myself as an instrumentalist-minded musician that ideas are what matter. i've spent the last little while developing my 'moog scratch' technique and been glorifying it to myself and others but realized that a technique is nothing compared to an idea. a technique is a tool. its a 'thing', while an idea is made up of 'things'. but things can be cool too. wobbles are cool.

but yeah... enough about egotistical me. Tim Burton? Disney on crack. times five.

Burton's ideas were so clear and strong that it didnt matter how crazy or demented his characters' faces were with their characteristic hanging eyeballs. He could have scribbled anything on a piece of paper and have it make sense and tell a story. he obviously is not making his art purely for children, but the whole children's thing is the medium that he chooses to channel stuff out of. Some kids would come by saying, "mommy theres the dog... his eyeballs are falling out". the sketches would always tell a story. i loved that.
his pictures were so clear that you could see the shapes/parts that made them up. 60-70% of his sketches displayed had the same eyeballs, swaying bodies looking like genies with two distinct legs . . . i noticed about at least 10 of those "techniques". so beautifully put together...