Bankrupt aesthetic
I just read this.
I couldn't agree more.
Steve Jobs said at a graduation speech "stay hungry, stay foolish."
In an age of infinite recycling of taste, there appears to be no real push to move forward. No push for things to challenge the cardinal laws of this modern culture. With the internet time has been bent from a linear relationship into a infinite helix that bends in on itself. We have no future and no past, just a span of time from the 70's until now, in a self referential jetsam of hodgepodge.
There's little reward for risk taking. Most of the music I hear in Athens sounds self referential, somewhat to the point of incest.
People, now, as always, are really afraid to fail, yours truly included.
I wish people were taught how to fail, how to really really get out there, do something incredibly stupid, and say in the end "well, wasn't that interesting?"
I'm tired of being unsatisfied with the art, fashion, design and music worlds. What I wonder more about now is what can be done about it? There needs to be a class or a school where people are taught how to manufacture their own lenses. To create their own perspective. I can go to a record store and listen as conversations bubble about what has come before. Likewise art students are required to know X amount of Art History.
I say lenses because as a photographer we require them. If you try to take a picture without one I get a blank photo with an average of the light, all in one huge pixel.
A lens both gives a direction for light to travel, and blocks out erroneous light from the sides. However, there is a cost to using a lens. You lose some light... some that is right in front of the camera bounces back to hence where it came. That is the reflection you see when you look at yourself reflected in the len's glass.
Similarly, there is a cost to seeking to work from a focused perspective. In doing so, we lose some touch with some greater humanity. There are serious benefits to playing it safe. What's needed is an arm of support for such endeavors that push the envelope.
Where catastrophic failure isn't the goal, but isn't frowned upon either.
Maybe this is a little overboard, but a gentle push outside of the comfort zones of the now would be quite nice. Till then I'll be swimming in my own secret world of gentle passive nonconformity.
I couldn't agree more.
Steve Jobs said at a graduation speech "stay hungry, stay foolish."
In an age of infinite recycling of taste, there appears to be no real push to move forward. No push for things to challenge the cardinal laws of this modern culture. With the internet time has been bent from a linear relationship into a infinite helix that bends in on itself. We have no future and no past, just a span of time from the 70's until now, in a self referential jetsam of hodgepodge.
There's little reward for risk taking. Most of the music I hear in Athens sounds self referential, somewhat to the point of incest.
People, now, as always, are really afraid to fail, yours truly included.
I wish people were taught how to fail, how to really really get out there, do something incredibly stupid, and say in the end "well, wasn't that interesting?"
I'm tired of being unsatisfied with the art, fashion, design and music worlds. What I wonder more about now is what can be done about it? There needs to be a class or a school where people are taught how to manufacture their own lenses. To create their own perspective. I can go to a record store and listen as conversations bubble about what has come before. Likewise art students are required to know X amount of Art History.
I say lenses because as a photographer we require them. If you try to take a picture without one I get a blank photo with an average of the light, all in one huge pixel.
A lens both gives a direction for light to travel, and blocks out erroneous light from the sides. However, there is a cost to using a lens. You lose some light... some that is right in front of the camera bounces back to hence where it came. That is the reflection you see when you look at yourself reflected in the len's glass.
Similarly, there is a cost to seeking to work from a focused perspective. In doing so, we lose some touch with some greater humanity. There are serious benefits to playing it safe. What's needed is an arm of support for such endeavors that push the envelope.
Where catastrophic failure isn't the goal, but isn't frowned upon either.
Maybe this is a little overboard, but a gentle push outside of the comfort zones of the now would be quite nice. Till then I'll be swimming in my own secret world of gentle passive nonconformity.