The Human Spirit; when it is
allowed to become... made manifest
through art, invariably is going to
create greatness. You know, it
almost doesn't matter what the
medium is, it doesn't matter what
the financials are, it doesn't
matter what the delivery vehicles
are; when humans make stuff we tend
to make interesting things. So if
you give a human a hammer and a
piece of wood, they are going to
make something interesting. If you
give a human a computer and
broadband access they're going to
make something interesting.
In the olden days about 30-40 years ago
people didn't make things
you know like some people would go to photography exhibits
peoplo would go buy records
and there were proffesional artists
and now everybody is a photographer
everybody is a film maker
everybody is a writer, everybody is a musician
See before you could sell a record for $10 or $16.98 as a CD
because there were still this inherent mistery about how it was done? who did it? and how can i do that thing?
well know that mistery has disolved itself because i can make it, anybody can make it
they know the secrets now
i think that this is an incredible final time for artist
there is no cap on creativity
the technological advances have given the artist an open door to creating as much as their capacity will allow
Anybody can go out and make a movie, anybody who has 1500 usd can buy a camera
even if you don't there is some many ways to make movies, there is some many waves to distribute a film,
on the internet... you know there is a million different platforms
so that's all really good for people wanting to express themselves but also makes it a lot harder
to kind of break through all of the noise
A young fast Bender, a young Bender, a young Hitchcock, a young Scorcesse, they wouldn't make it in this business
slap up their artist stuff on Facebook, on Youtube, it would get lost, it would get lost in the ocean of garbage
You remeber in 2007, Time magazine gave the award of best person of the year to YOU, ourselves, you and I
it's global masturbation
Used to be, you become an artist to become rich, become an artist because you have an idea to share
because you have an emotion to share
and that's where we are headed again
are we gonna see more people, do more art, in more ways than ever before
Almost everybody i knew in the world of Art, Music, Literature, Creative Expression,
everybody is equally excited and affraid
No one really know where's their next pay check is coming from, but they are really excited at their ability to create work
and communicate directly with an audience