a falling demographic
By cian o leary
16 Jun 2009
90% of people at some point face depression, or so I'm told. I see this world just so filed with apathy that art has begun to lose meaning to most people not actively involved in it.
i have recently found out my friend had walked in on his brother hanging, after committing suicide. he is a talented artist but has no courage or confidence to seek that of which he deserves, respect and recognition for his dawning etc. because of this his emotions have built up and is incapable of ever actually expressing himself.
photography to me means that i get to spend time with my usual band of monosyllabic teens, that care not what Alexander pope said before death, doing ever so slightly creative things that might just inspire one of them to actually pick something out that was not advertised to them 15 seconds previous.
I feel so alone in this generation Y culture that drains all thought of originality and empathetic viewpoints from those in possession of them, and replaces them with emptiness and the ideology that any sign of the two above is just cause to isolate those who show signs of either.
. . . . . I hate bullies!!. . . . .
MY photograph meant all of the world to me but now, i don't no whats wrong, but i'm incapable of doing it to any of the simplest shoots in under half hour
I'm kind of saying is that no matter what kind of art you do, be it painting, photography, or drawing, it is the emotion you express through it that matters. I just fear the day that MTV finally takes over for the cultural provider. Has that day already arrived?! If so, have i conformed, or am the unique alcoholic stain on the floor of a night club?!
2 responses
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Andre Easter said (17 Jun 2009):
"I just fear the day that MTV finally takes over for the cultural provider."
That day arrived some years ago. MTV has been carefully socially and politically indoctrinated you for your entire life. You think, act and feel the way you do because you have always been told to think act and feel the way you do.
"Oceania is at war with Eastasia. Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia."
Yeah, your story rocks. -
Brian Ach said (2 Aug 2009):
sometimes, when your creative urge drags a little, it is because you are right on the edge of a creative breakthrough. You are bored with what you have been doing, it doesn't seem new, unique, fresh.
So, when you don't feel like taking your camera and going out to shoot, THIS IS THE TIME that you should take your camera and go out and shoot. Push through that barrier, strengthen your will, and go shoot!
