And no, I'm not talking about being pissed that Graboids rampaged my small Nevada town and that I needed to call upon Fred Ward and Kevin Bacon (not to mention the Dad from Family Ties) to save the day. No, I'm talking about what I have come to refer to as George Lucas Syndrome (GLS). Simply put, it is never being happy with the work that you did, so you constantly edit, alter and even sometimes add new things to previous works. It's named after Lucas because of his altering of the Star Wars Trilogy for the Special Edition release in early 1997. Then, when it came out on DVD in September of 2004., he once again added scenes and touched up the special effects. Here's why I have a problem with it. When he created the trilogy, they were perfect because they were the best that could have been done at the time. The limitations that he had make the film look like it was made in the late 70's/early 80's. Once you add scenes with today's technology, the CGI doesn't match up and it makes the old CGI look funny when before it just looked normal. Lucas should let his work stand as it was then, because there's no use trying to perfect perfection.
Ok, sorry about that. He is when I explain to you why that point matters. I've started something on my website that I have named Project Rebirth 2006. Basically, I'm going through every page that I have created and enlarging all of the pictures so that my entire site has a uniform look. While this doesn't sound like GLS, because all I'm doing is enlarging pictures, here's where GLS comes into play. I have to refrain myself from adding new comments or changing some of the things that I said up to 4 years ago. What I wrote then captures how I was feeling at the time and my writing style. That says more about me at the time that anything captured in the picture. Some things I regret writing, while others I feel like I should have said more. This is a difficult struggle because I don't want to be diagnosed with GLS because I am strongly opposed to it.
Project Rebirth 2006 will guarantee that everything is uniform in size, allowing the viewer to see the image with better clarification. If I stick to my principles, the content will remain the same. Although my standards of perfection have changed, what I viewed as perfect then still is perfect in that context. I will forever change my perfection standards as I become more knowledgeable over time, but I will never be perfect until I can allow my work to represent my maturity level at the time period in which it was created. So far I'm doing a good job at keeping my GLS in check, but time can only tell if my constant suppression of it will lead to an unstoppable explosion of change. Pray to whatever God you have that that day will never come.
Until then - check out the ongoing process of Project Rebirth 2006 at pookon.com
www.pookon.com
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