imagine how much great art could have been created if we took a fraction of the money spent on getting computers to make shitty art and gave it to actual artists
Sometimes we need reminding that things that seem impossible only seem so until someone achieves them. And when someone achieves, even in an unfamiliar field, it can intrigue, it can instruct, it can inspire. Jasmin Paris, thankyou for the reminder. #smalleuropeanwoman#BM100
This is beautifully written, bleak without being depressive, and more real than Nietzsche's often quoted aphorism on resilience.
One of the few pieces of advice I offer to anyone new or old to any artform is not to conflate suffering for your art, which is not only unnecessary but often counterproductive, with making the sacrifices that are almost always inevitable when striving for any artistic goal. 💙📚
Just remember: Arts & Humanities are so useless and pointless that Tech Bros were driven to spend billions of dollars to try and get a computer to do something that badly approximates something Arts & Humanities students could do half asleep and wired on coffee the night before the due date.
"…where irrelevant and senile old folk reminisce about wars in which they did not fight and complain about taxes that they largely don’t pay…" The full thread is worth a read.
"…where irrelevant and senile old folk reminisce about wars in which they did not fight and complain about taxes that they largely don’t pay…" The full thread is worth a read.