This entry made me extremely happy. I do consider myself an artist, but not because I take a picture of half my face and photoshop it to death. I like to paint, I like to draw, I like to take pictures of things that I feel either represent myself or are extremely pleasing to the eye. Most of the time with photography it's more-so a theme or a mood that the photo has.
Don't get me started on myspace music. Or any of that stuff. It makes me as angry as it makes you.
I agree with many things in this rant, but I do see much assumption, judgement, and personal resentment towards this "myspace generation" as you've come to call it. You are a part of this myspace generation, as you are a slave to technologies like your camera and your computer. Sorry about the journal invasion, by the way.
Once could say that there seems to be much bias to this myspace generation that I resent. However, it is not the myspace generation which I resent. It is some of the people that represent it. However, with the myspace generation came a new era of needing to make ones self seem more intelligent, and art orientated. Thus brought what I discussed upon the world.
However, to get back to you saying that there was much assumption. It may seem like it, but believe it or not there was alot of spectator style research on this.
I do believe that this desire to become something great is in human nature, much like destruction and presumption of creative purposes. Perhaps this need to present a representation of intellegent pretense has been so overplayed and consumed by the mass public, that we are simply tired of it. Perhaps, also, it is some kind of personal insecurity, as (assuming that this desire is within human nature) with every human expressing his/her contentment with being the most intelligent being of his/her social class, then other beings of similar social status will resent that human for his/her apparent appreciation for wealth and progress.
Mm, but in truth, I do believe it's been around for much much longer then the internet has. Perhaps the internet has just given us ample opportunity to express it.
People who say they are photographers should spend a week in a fucking darkroom. With my photography teacher. Everyone's perception of art is different. But myspace/livejournal has taken that statement too far.
I wanna see half of these kids calling themselves artists produce anything with talent that comes from their brain. Anyone can draw from example, or trace.
Yeah, I am fuckin' articulate and shit when its needed. In case you didn't notice its not needed for this post.
True. I do respect some graphic artists though, when there is a certain degree of creativity apparent. But playing with filters and adding little squiggles and scratches in photoshop is not art,
And a lot of artists have to start at drawing from example, just to get the basics down. So if you can do that well and you're creative, then you should be able to put your creativity to paper.
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I do consider myself an artist, but not because I take a picture of half my face and photoshop it to death. I like to paint, I like to draw, I like to take pictures of things that I feel either represent myself or are extremely pleasing to the eye. Most of the time with photography it's more-so a theme or a mood that the photo has.
Don't get me started on myspace music.
Or any of that stuff.
It makes me as angry as it makes you.
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However, to get back to you saying that there was much assumption. It may seem like it, but believe it or not there was alot of spectator style research on this.
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Mm, but in truth, I do believe it's been around for much much longer then the internet has. Perhaps the internet has just given us ample opportunity to express it.
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Everyone's perception of art is different. But myspace/livejournal has taken that statement too far.
You write well, shithead.
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Yeah, I am fuckin' articulate and shit when its needed. In case you didn't notice its not needed for this post.
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And a lot of artists have to start at drawing from example, just to get the basics down. So if you can do that well and you're creative, then you should be able to put your creativity to paper.
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