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Talented artists see their creative output drown under a torrent of commercial and mass-produced art. There are dominoes to fell but we should not be reckless a

Talented artists see their creative output drown under a torrent of commercial and mass-produced art. There are dominoes to fell but we should not be reckless about it. With postmodernism art deconstructed its duty and without duty society does not grant rights. It is a big problem because art is often visionary about the future. We don’t know that we even have a future without vision.

echelon 3y ago
> Talented artists see their creative output drown under a torrent of commercial and mass-produced art. There isn't enough art in the world. I've spent the last two decades making films the photons-on-expensive-glass method, and it's a pain in the ass. I can start new software projects of scale easily. I can't do that with art. It's capital intensive, logistics intensive, and requires too many people in low-autonomy roles. It really sucks the fun out of storytelling when you're chasing down location rights, showing up at the prop house at 7 AM, arranging for catering, etc. > We don’t know that we even have a future without vision. As a creator, I've dreamed about a better way before GenAI was even on the radar. I'm not the only one. Existing processes suck and too much of the work isn't creative at all. As a consumer, my needs are barely being met at all. I want a show about steampunk vampires in space. I want a biopic film exploring Reimann, but told as a musical. I have creative notes for Benioff and Weiss, and I'd rather put those together for myself and my friends than echo words into the void. I want so much more than the canned limited selection I have available on Netflix and Criterion. It barely whets the palate, and my appetite is completely unsated. The closest I've ever gotten is performing in improv theater and exploring the worlds I want with the people I feel comfortable creating around. But that's only part of the experience I want. I want so much more. The art we have today is a pale shadow of the mind's unlimited canvas. A projection onto a caveman's wall. You can protect a vision of a priestly class of artists from the printing press all you want. I'm tired of living in the dark ages when we're sitting at the precipice of so much more. Their jobs won't go away any more than wedding and event photographers suffer in the advent of digital film. If anything, the artists will be the best primed to take advantage of the new alpha. Free of studio meddling, they can build their own audiences that they own without the chains of brand guidelines. Vivziepop, but a million fold. I saw a figure recently that said 80% of consumer film, games, and media originates in the US. Think about the rest of the world. So much culture and perspective that we should all share in remains unseen, and we're left with the lens of US media giants. Think, too, of all the dreamers lost in opportunity cost. There are a billion stories that die silently in the minds of dreamers because we couldn't help them. And the world is all the worse for it.
- ganzuul 3y ago
  I very much agree on but one crucial point. In addition to individualist fulfillment I crave collectivist fulfillment and for that to happen we have to assign duties to art. If a collective shoulders that duty then we do get a printing press priesthood. If individualists shoulder the duty to the collective then we should get something different. Perhaps productions like Helluva Boss do have some kind of post-deconstructionist duty of their own design. If that is the case then society should reciprocate with granting rights different from what the priesthood would accrue.

echelon 3y ago

> Talented artists see their creative output drown under a torrent of commercial and mass-produced art. There isn't enough art in the world. I've spent the last two decades making films the photons-on-expensive-glass method, and it's a pain in the ass. I can start new software projects of scale easily. I can't do that with art. It's capital intensive, logistics intensive, and requires too many people in low-autonomy roles. It really sucks the fun out of storytelling when you're chasing down location rights, showing up at the prop house at 7 AM, arranging for catering, etc. > We don’t know that we even have a future without vision. As a creator, I've dreamed about a better way before GenAI was even on the radar. I'm not the only one. Existing processes suck and too much of the work isn't creative at all. As a consumer, my needs are barely being met at all. I want a show about steampunk vampires in space. I want a biopic film exploring Reimann, but told as a musical. I have creative notes for Benioff and Weiss, and I'd rather put those together for myself and my friends than echo words into the void. I want so much more than the canned limited selection I have available on Netflix and Criterion. It barely whets the palate, and my appetite is completely unsated. The closest I've ever gotten is performing in improv theater and exploring the worlds I want with the people I feel comfortable creating around. But that's only part of the experience I want. I want so much more. The art we have today is a pale shadow of the mind's unlimited canvas. A projection onto a caveman's wall. You can protect a vision of a priestly class of artists from the printing press all you want. I'm tired of living in the dark ages when we're sitting at the precipice of so much more. Their jobs won't go away any more than wedding and event photographers suffer in the advent of digital film. If anything, the artists will be the best primed to take advantage of the new alpha. Free of studio meddling, they can build their own audiences that they own without the chains of brand guidelines. Vivziepop, but a million fold. I saw a figure recently that said 80% of consumer film, games, and media originates in the US. Think about the rest of the world. So much culture and perspective that we should all share in remains unseen, and we're left with the lens of US media giants. Think, too, of all the dreamers lost in opportunity cost. There are a billion stories that die silently in the minds of dreamers because we couldn't help them. And the world is all the worse for it.

ganzuul 3y ago
I very much agree on but one crucial point. In addition to individualist fulfillment I crave collectivist fulfillment and for that to happen we have to assign duties to art. If a collective shoulders that duty then we do get a printing press priesthood. If individualists shoulder the duty to the collective then we should get something different. Perhaps productions like Helluva Boss do have some kind of post-deconstructionist duty of their own design. If that is the case then society should reciprocate with granting rights different from what the priesthood would accrue.