Art
The battle to reclaim every garbage film someone loves just because they saw it as a child is a sad never-ending one. Some stuff just isn’t good …and that is okay. Not every soulless piece of studio output designed to sell tacos and soundtrack CDs is some unrecognized genius.
Put the arts back in schools and never let them leave again. Because now I understand how STEM only schools have not led to Innovation or critical thinking skills. Disinformation is prospering as a result
if you already pay for a streaming service watching a new upload feels "free" so you're more likely to check out a movie that looks mid
X. It’s what’s happening
We're racing towards a world where art is divorced from human creativity and I don't know that I want to live in that world
- Chance Strickland
this is a symptom of a larger unwillingness to experience art without first being certain that you’ll like it. you see it in trope tags, movie trailers that spoil the whole movie, microgenres, algorithmic playlists, you get exactly what you want every time without ever exploring.
"If no art makes you feel anything, make your own art and feel something"
- Jenna Marbles (I think)
“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of cont
... See moreIt’s ok to just not like something without fabricating a moral reason to fulfill your self-righteousness