WEBVTT 00:00:28.986 --> 00:00:31.169 The Human Spirit; when it is 00:00:31.246 --> 00:00:33.413 allowed to become... made manifest 00:00:33.413 --> 00:00:35.267 through art, invariably is going to 00:00:35.329 --> 00:00:38.004 create greatness. You know, it 00:00:38.004 --> 00:00:39.181 almost doesn't matter what the 00:00:39.242 --> 00:00:41.593 medium is, it doesn't matter what 00:00:41.593 --> 00:00:42.724 the financials are, it doesn't 00:00:42.724 --> 00:00:44.116 matter what the delivery vehicles 00:00:44.116 --> 00:00:46.589 are; when humans make stuff we tend 00:00:46.589 --> 00:00:48.777 to make interesting things. So if 00:00:48.777 --> 00:00:50.538 you give a human a hammer and a 00:00:50.538 --> 00:00:51.408 piece of wood, they are going to 00:00:51.408 --> 00:00:53.354 make something interesting. If you 00:00:54.509 --> 00:00:55.665 give a human a computer and 00:00:55.696 --> 00:00:57.188 broadband access they're going to 00:00:57.188 --> 00:00:59.488 make something interesting. 00:01:07.932 --> 00:01:10.431 In the olden days about 30-40 years ago 00:01:10.431 --> 00:01:12.881 people didn't make things 00:01:12.881 --> 00:01:14.834 you know like some people would go to photography exhibits 00:01:14.834 --> 00:01:16.285 peoplo would go buy records 00:01:16.285 --> 00:01:19.280 and there were proffesional artists 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:20.730 and now everybody is a photographer 00:01:20.730 --> 00:01:22.011 everybody is a film maker 00:01:22.011 --> 00:01:24.130 everybody is a writer, everybody is a musician 00:01:27.776 --> 00:01:34.473 See before you could sell a record for $10 or $16.98 as a CD 00:01:34.473 --> 00:01:43.170 because there were still this inherent mistery about how it was done? who did it? and how can i do that thing? 00:01:43.170 --> 00:01:50.758 well know that mistery has disolved itself because i can make it, anybody can make it 00:01:50.758 --> 00:01:53.404 they know the secrets now 00:01:58.973 --> 00:02:01.590 i think that this is an incredible final time for artist 00:02:01.590 --> 00:02:03.551 there is no cap on creativity 00:02:03.551 --> 00:02:11.760 the technological advances have given the artist an open door to creating as much as their capacity will allow 00:02:19.898 --> 00:02:23.169 Anybody can go out and make a movie, anybody who has 1500 usd can buy a camera 00:02:23.169 --> 00:02:29.557 even if you don't there is some many ways to make movies, there is some many waves to distribute a film, 00:02:29.557 --> 00:02:33.050 on the internet... you know there is a million different platforms 00:02:33.050 --> 00:02:37.437 so that's all really good for people wanting to express themselves but also makes it a lot harder 00:02:37.437 --> 00:02:42.185 to kind of break through all of the noise 00:02:42.185 --> 00:02:49.032 A young fast Bender, a young Bender, a young Hitchcock, a young Scorcesse, they wouldn't make it in this business 00:02:49.032 --> 00:02:58.204 slap up their artist stuff on Facebook, on Youtube, it would get lost, it would get lost in the ocean of garbage 00:03:00.066 --> 00:03:07.106 You remeber in 2007, Time magazine gave the award of best person of the year to YOU, ourselves, you and I 00:03:07.106 --> 00:03:13.539 it's global masturbation 00:03:13.539 --> 00:03:18.659 Used to be, you become an artist to become rich, become an artist because you have an idea to share 00:03:18.659 --> 00:03:20.457 because you have an emotion to share 00:03:20.457 --> 00:03:22.339 and that's where we are headed again 00:03:22.339 --> 00:03:29.119 are we gonna see more people, do more art, in more ways than ever before 00:03:43.134 --> 00:03:47.769 Almost everybody i knew in the world of Art, Music, Literature, Creative Expression, 00:03:47.769 --> 00:03:52.072 everybody is equally excited and affraid 00:03:52.072 --> 00:03:59.057 No one really know where's their next pay check is coming from, but they are really excited at their ability to create work 00:03:59.057 --> 00:04:00.666 and communicate directly with an audience