Video fun : Primal Papillon | Rant/Plea- Fun can be art therapy too! Let it! Have it!

This was purely fun for its own sake. Its not high art, in fact, its unapologetically cheesy and schmaltzy. *grin* If there is a deeper message, its CARPE DIEM!

This is important enough for everyone, but especially people whose lives are so swallowed up as those who are disabled etc. The things a person in this condition might most want

• Relief

• The ability to do as they did before
• Or to do as people without pain and disability
• More / better medical treatments

Simply aren't necessarily going to happen. Yet there is still good to be had in and of life, and moments of pure whimsy like this are especially valuable.

I'd also like to take this this opportunity to contest a whole gaggle of myths about art therapy, all of which essentially center around arbitrary, meaningless, and harmful standards about what is "valid" art therapy and what is not.

Art therapy is not

• Limited to any form of expression... it is NOT the case that, say, painting is true art therapy while poetry or sculpture are not.
• Required to in any direct way be related to the maladies or burdens afflicting the person doing it.

Art therapy is anything which improves the life of the person suffering a chronic problem / illness by means of creativity or helps them feel or express what ever emotions they need to feel or express by means of creativity.

The only essential elements are: A person in need and creativity.

All the other rules and so forth just get in the way. They turn something which can be of more benefit than medicine and cut it to death with the harsh knife of the law.

I've actually had arguments with people over which mediums were valid forms of art therapy, or which subjects were. IMAGINE!

Perhaps some people need a certain amount of direction to help them get the most out of art therapy. I can't say that I've ever met them, but there are millions of people out there I don't know, so I can't preclude it. At most however, I think people need only help in finding their muse and perhaps a little education in how to work with what ever media are most beneficial to them. As I've been writing and taking pictures for over 30 years (and I'm in my lower 40s) the nuts and bolts of how to write or how to use visual images have long been known to me... no problems there!


Back to / On to the video:

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If able, I'll do a post about some of the FX razzle dazzle I did in Windows Movie Maker for Vista64, beta. That is for a different post however.

This was purely fun for its own sake, and was exactly what I needed. Sometimes its nice for me to take a break from things which have deep and complex existential meanings. The video was all pretty easy and rudimentary in its technical aspects, but very satisfying none the less.