A life without either would be - I can't think of a serious enough metaphor. I play music, bellydance, and draw pretty pictures. They feed my soul. Why choose one over the other?
you are absolutely right!
i don't know why i so often end up having to set a clear boundary between things (maybe it is a compulsion with an attempt to better allocate my limited mental resources) if i like music and photography equally passionately it is not a bad idea to figure out a way to blend both pursuits i can be loyal to both as both of them enrich the souls in their own unique contrasting at once very similar ways
it's just that i chose music as my career path over it and i really really love colours, composition and geometrics in things and am constantly collecting stuff i was having difficult moments which activity i should give all of myself to
then again i love the tonal colours in music as well and how music gels ever so nicely with visual mediums and together create a wonderful moments
maybe i should learn to be less rigid but more loyal to more things and be more flexible
Since I have the musical prowess of a marble, I'd have to go with photography. More exactly, black and white photographs. Without colors you see and feel the moment come through the picture. Almost raw. I think color blinds a person's vision of the moment.
Interesting comment, waterviolet.. There's a Japanese fashion designer who says he never works with colour because he feels they give too much 'sentimentality.' It's in the tone, the shade, hue etc.. It has all these subjective stories or memories mixed into it --while with black and white, it's raw as you said.. and pure. People can see it as it is.
i respect these comments as well but personally i ended up becoming too much of a colour slut or an addict :-0 along with proportional elements of geometric composition and lights i think colour activates and create a sophisticated mapping dots in our brain that end up having their own magical emotional powers and meanings
maybe i prefer the oblivion the colours and tones give so much :-0 but they become real too.. because emotion and colour is a reality on its own, just the way it is.. sentiment being a facet or reality just the way it is !
then again i love black and white photography as well.. those are colours too at once light information