Clay Commons
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Clay Commons
Distinguishing artists from creators by examining creativity's commercial nature and the historical evolution of art as expression.
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Purely patronage, edification. When you start to get into the arts as individual expression or the beginnings of a commercial expression, you're really looking at after the French Revolution, like early 19th century, French salons began to have like competition to show your work for the first time.
There's a book, a great book I've been reading
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Critiquing the 'genius' label, exploring healthy self-doubt, and contrasting modern views with the historical concept of 'having a genius'.
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and pretty soon we start to inflate egos into a trap of narcissism. Right.
And I want to ask you something, because I can't remember who it was who said, after, you know, having their first big success, they felt really unhappy and they felt really worried that like, has the biggest success I've ever had in my life happened? Like,
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Discussing how technology's over-scaling has diminished niche subcultures and exploring opportunities found in creating a unique path.
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And that makes them a little bit less interesting and a little bit less cool, right? Like you need some friction It needs to be a little bit hard to find a little bit hard to penetrate hard to stay in hard to be in
But when you find it and when it good it really matters It not really is it an internet subculture or offline subculture It just like
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