To be honest this weeks prompt of looking around your personal space and document something that you made special, was actually pretty difficult to answer. I don't have anything that I have created, I don't have anything like room arrangement, or pictures that are special to me. the best thing i could come up with would be the combination of my movie collection and some of my posters. Though I don't see them as treasures that are particularly special, they are just movies, and posters. my posters are quasi making special to me because they represent some of my favorite movies, so its tied into my movie collection. These posters are references to what some of the movies mean to me. These movies mean a lot to me because it feels like they are often some of the only things I can relate and even sometimes I see my self in these movies, It may not be my entire personality being reflected in these movies but maybe fragments like how I view justice or morals. These posters are reminders of these movies. One example is of my Indiana Jones poster, because the movies reached out to me when i was very young like 8 years old and ever since all Ive wanted to become was and archaeologist (even though that's not how archaeology works) and that's exactly what I am still doing and have even gone trekking the the Belize jungle for an archaeology field school the past few years. Some other examples is my Fight Club poster that has the rules because i really love the cultural criticism and satire are used, and a Dark Knight poster because I really like batman's morals and how they were tested.
My movie collection isn't that big it numbers probably around 90 DVDs, but all of them were chosen for a reason and were thought about meticulously. This is because every movie I add means something to me. So for me "making special" in my personal space isn't something that's easy to articulate because its not the DVDs themselves nor the posters themselves, its its the personal value I have attached to the story and views the the writers and the artistic expression of the directors.
Reading your blog just made me regret not bringing my movies to Arcata. I have a connection with every movie I own. Some movies have specific purposes depending on my mood. Goonies and Beetlejuice are movies I watch when I'm sick. They might not be cinema at it's finest but they work better then medicine to make me feel better. I have over 200 dvd's and I brought 0 with me to Arcata. Thank goodness for rentals!
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