With the developement of new technology the mediums in which we define art (music, photo or otherwise) is also more diverse, expanding and evolving, giving us the ability to explore and do more! In my opinion, just because technology is simplifying things does not devalue the art in itself. What really gets to me is when some people say that what they are doing and how they are doing it is the right way, and to try and tell other's, in a subliminal way, that their method is not the right way because they didn't do it the same.
This is impossible to do because art is expression and everyone has their own idea of how that flows...because it is a way of chanelling something through you. The medium you use is not nearly as important as the outcome and how much it does or does not effect some body. At the end of it all... it really just comes down to you. What you want to do, how far you want to push yourself or not...but for someone to rag on other artist or musicians because they are doing something in a different way (maybe a more simple way-or "cheating") is simply...pointless...and i lose respect for the artist who puts other artists down. It's like saying oh look at me i have done all this un necessary work, and gone way out of my own way to make trouble for myself, to make it interesting, and now i want to get credit for it, and put other people down? Like what the fuck is that? I guess i just have a different point of view when it comes to technical details like that.
... As far as I'm concerned we all are individually THE ART.
Make your life the art and stop trying to define what is or is not. There is no right or wrong way! Its all experimentation and the expressions are endless. WE need to jump outside of the boxes of these catagorizations we've made for ourselves.
To me just the fact that some one put shit into a can, calling it ART... because it's original and they CAN.. can shit and call it art and therefore it is...that blows my mind. It has a brilliance to it ( in it's own fucked up way)... I'm not going to tell that person that it isn't art. It's an impossible arguement. Art is different things to different people. Just like people find different things meaningful. Maybe shit in a can has some sort of deeper meaning to that person? Maybe they just thought it was funny...and wondered if they could get away with doing something so stupid. Maybe it's a pun in the form of an object...it's " shit in a can"...thats art. Maybe what it's really saying is that "art is shit"...because it's however you want to define it...and that is funny, because it's fucking true!
Or the graphitti on the toilet bowl...thats "art" too... and it goes on and on...and our definitions to these things are getting broader and broader...It gets hard to tell where to draw the line!
I mean. I don't know...for me I am drawn to things that move me on a deeper level...spiritually and mentally...and i think most other people would agree with that...and all i know is thats how i can classify what is art to me, personally. The means in which you go about sharing this expression with others is completely up to the individual and it should stay there, getting into comparing who does what...what way...is just stupid. It never produces anything but bitterness. Don't judge. Don't campare. Easy. It makes the person judging look egotistical and like:"look at me"..."look at everything I've done"...and the ego of that takes away from the actual art which is in itself...not even the artist's to begin with... artists just happen to work on chanelling that energy. Maybe ego is arts biggest block!
Some use more effort, some use less. Some do nothing at all...
and so?
Anyways. I just watched an interview, and although I like this persons music (And NO I am not talking about Radiohead! another band but it doesn't really matter to say who it was..) Just...all these little side comments about what he does...and what other artists don't do...it just really irritated me...
But NOW I'm the one judging...mmmm. Thats a tricky one. Nothing against this person...his music is great, amazing actually...but he should just get out of the way...thats all. Let the music do the talking.
Shit! Now I wish i just said nothing at all. Judging is a downward spiral.
I'm going to go...take a shit now...and be saticefied with producing absolutely nothing today:) It's ART!
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