So I just saw an amazing little commercial on OETA, or at least I thought it was amazing. If I can find it on youtube, I'll post it at the bottom of this entry. Anyways, the commercial . . . It was one of those ads that was sponsored by the TV station and didn't advertise something you could buy, kind of like "Stay in school" or "Read a book". The black and white ad began with a man in his apartment, at a piano, doodling on staff paper. He would write out ideas, scratch them out, crumple the paper and throw it away.
He began to be frustrated that he couldn't write the song he was looking for, when suddenly he looked out his window to see a few pigeons land on telephone wire. The wires were one on top of the other, resembling a music staff, and the pigeons were situated in a pattern like notes. The composer gets an idea, and pings out the few notes. Soon more pigeons land, giving him several notes, and eventually an entire tune. The man pings out the tune first, and then begins to play an awesome, jazzy piece based on that melody.
The ad ended with the written words "Be more inspired". It's silly, but I really like that ad, and I wish I could find it, but I probably can't. I love inspiration. To me, it is God's way of plugging something of his own into my art, and I don't mean that to say that everything I right is church related, because it's not. But every inspiration I've had, from "Gankutsuou" to "The Firebird Suite" to a rainy day to people I love, all of them have breathed the living element that I could not generate on my own into my music and stories.
To finish up, I will give you my "Firebird Suite" inspiration. I've based an entire musical on the story of life, death, and renewal narrated in this wonderful cartoon from "Fantasia 2000"
The commercial sounds awesome. For once they're putting that to good use. :P
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