Forever feel like falling

But forever there’s no ground

Still soul-trapped and wandering

 The Universe indifferent somehow

Docile dream in a half-light haze

I think I’ve entered The Garden

Altered conscious, sedated phase

Can’t express the place I was in

A faded halo beyond the dream line

Approaches me from outside my mind

Transcends me through all space and time

Reveals perception beyond infinite eyes 

Countless dimensions of a limitless mind

Showed all the answers, and told all the secrets

And almost told me why, but I…

Awoke abruptly to the dull gray of a crash site

Forced back into the pain of a new day in this life

Where do I go from here,

After all that I know now?

Where do I go from here?

Where do I go now?

Hero

-          Hero in

-          In your eyes

-          Help you see

-          Can’t let you die

-          Try to speak

-          Instead you cry

-          Cry to me

-          To hold you high

-          But I think

-          this is my last time

-          Don’t come for me

-          There’s no hero of mine

-          Let me be

-          Let me die

Halo Reach Review

This weekend was kind of boring, so I basically just played that new Halo Reach game all the way through. I've got to say, I really thought it was going to be better. There was so much hype about how amazing the game play was going to be; even the commercial had a ton of amazing cinematography. The game was supposed be the great history about all the Spartans that existed before they all got wiped out in the war against the Covenant. I’m not even that big of an Xbox fan, but when I heard this game was coming out, the concept of it got me excited for it. I had been anticipating something that was going to be more in depth and captivating. As it turns out the story was only about six particular Spartans, and throughout the game they all died one at a time. It was supposed to be the game that showed you where it all began, and in my opinion they didn’t really put that much creativity into the story line. They didn’t go into the history; it was just a simple straightforward war like plot basically identical to all the other games. The first game was amazing because the concept of the story was original and it was all new adventure, but game by game they kept dragging it on, milking as much money as they could out of the idea of Halo. The entire game took place in only a few different places on the same planet, planet Reach, and the missions were really about nothing except driving the enemy out of one area at a time. Then two missions before the end of the game you’re taught the affiliation it has with the first Halo game. All of a sudden the story changes from fighting aliens off the planet, to discovering and saving Cortana; an artificial intelligence from all the other games. When this happened I was disappointed because throughout the game I kept waiting for it to get interesting, and as soon as this happened I knew where the story was going. I realized it was just some cheap prequel to the first game where all they did was basically back track from the beginning of the first story board since they wrote themselves into a corner writing in the other direction. It wasn’t giving the history about where it all began, it was just like “oh, yeah, here’s what happened in the month right before the first game began…enjoy.”

          Aside from just the story line, there was basically nothing new about the game play either. There weren’t any new weapons that didn’t already exist in Halo ODST (the game that was supposed to tide everyone over till this one came out). There weren’t any new vehicles; just the same basic warthogs, ghosts, banshees, etc. They also for some reason decided to take out dual-wielding which makes no sense; because that was a feature they introduced to make the game a lot more action packed in the first place. All the enemies were all the same familiar faces from all the other games; nothing new there either. Honestly the only thing I noticed about this game that I liked was the improvement of graphics. Halo Reach was anticipated to be the final bang of this series, but it’s more like the waning ripples of what used to be a bang. 

Human Creativity: Has It Reached Its End?

Some people would argue that creativity has long ago reached its end. Although it can be easy to see many of the same recurring ideas done over and over and over again in many different types of art, I believe that creativity will never end. Art of any form is potentially limitless; the only thing holding artists back is their self induced perception of a creative limit. When an artist argues that everything has been done before, what are they basing this conclusion on? Are they basing it on all the other examples of art that history has to offer? Yes, they are. Even more so they can't even see all that history has to offer because nothing is preserved forever and it is inevitable that an inconceivable amount of art has become lost in time. The idea that creativity has a limit is a very narrow view, and all one needs to do to escape that sense of narrow mindedness is to look around them. What is there to see? An entire universe of possibility exists right before our eyes. If one were to consider the vast and inconceivably infinite universe and all that it contains, one would easily be inspired. Think about it this way; we're one single civilization, on one planet, in one of hundreds of millions of solar systems, that's part of millions of billions of galaxies drifting in the infinite abyss of the cosmos. If we could see all of the cosmos all at once, and we looked at our world with such a massive perspective, we would appear smaller than some of the smallest known subatomic particles. We are the stuff of the universe. We physically represent a creative process billions of years in the making. Our biological selves came to be as a process of trial and error on the molecular genetic level, and everything we are was completely by accident. Even the human biology as intricate and inconceivably complex as it is just one out of an infinite range of possible biological creations that could exist anywhere in the universe. Perhaps even if we were to discover other forms of biological beings, we would not even recognize their molecular make up as being biological because of its possible vast difference to ours. So, if you’re telling me that human creativity is extinguished, you're wrong. I personally believe creativity is infinite.