Our current society and its obsession with money and work is slowly killing the creative urge in people. You can't follow your own dreams when youre busy building one for someone else.
Well easy to talk when u have a cushy room in your parents home. What about when someone has to work to get a loan to buy a home and pay bills just to keep a roof and food on the table? Inflataion, education debt, expensive healthcare and housing costs, heavy taxes etc don't allow you to be creative or create for the upcoming generation who do not have trust funds, tax gifts or a home passed on. So hence population decline due to greed of profit for the landlords and corporations and tax lords
Maybe we're told by society unconsciously what we need to be happy, maybe we're have become unconscious conformist, and make the decision that being creative take time away from being productive and being creative is wasteful when studies show that people are the happiest when creating. Having a creative outlet keeps me sane and at peace be it listening to music, restoring an auto, woodworking etc. Just my two cents.
I spent the last 10 years recording music and touring as a musician in a band. Racked up millions of streams, have played in front of 10s of thousands of people… came out of it penniless cuz the music industry is awful. I have no regrets. I’m working regular jobs right now to keep a roof and eat. Every day a new song is rattling around in my head and I simply wish I had the time and space to realize it. I’ll never stop looking for my opportunities to create no matter how much the indignities of capitalism interfere. To be human is to create meaning and connection, to solely create profit for some remote asshole is to be a machine. It’s not life
Jebus, what a find. Immediately restarted and watched again. Godfrey's films have been at the top of my favorites list since I found it as a teen in the 90s and it's so great to see an interview with him, he's as genius and cool and artistic as I imagined. Great conversations with everyone, thank you so much for this Big Think Team! This is quality journalism.
This was beautiful and inspiring! Something I'd like to add is this: I was thinking I'd like to call it a "midlife reboot" instead of a "midlife crisis", because it doesn't have to be a bad thing.
This is really beautiful. It’s a rare balance between intentional precision and complete randomness. I’ve really been enjoying your content. There’s something about the comparative nature of having 3 different people discuss the same ideas from different perspectives that really fleshes out the nuance of the topic. Thanks and bravo!
Man i didnt even know who these guys were before this video but holy shit i have HELLA deep respect for their commitment to their respective crafts and their overall creativity!
Dear The Well, please do a full lentgh Godfrey Reggio interview. You know, the one with the white screen pulled up on the background, he SO deserves it. TY
What Godfrey Reggio said," Does the content of your mind determine your behavior? Or does your behavior determine the content of your mind?" literally short circuited my monkey brain.
Great watch, all three of them are tremendously interesting, the funeral service was hilarious, it reminded me Elizabeth Taylor, she wanted to be late for her own funeral-so she was, her body was deliberately held back until everyone was seated and sad and then they brought her in, and I think the Priest said:’well, she always said she’s going to be late for her own funeral one day. I’d like my gravestone to read, ‘here lies Joe, buried alive. 😁
This series is too complex and deep for majority of the population, don't feel bad when the view number is low for now, hopefully, this will become viral in a decade or so. This type of work is way ahead of its time.
Hello everybody. I learned at the age of 8 years old that I could create pictures with a camera. I was hooked. I never told my mother, or anyone about how I loved creating art with that camera. I also enjoyed coloring books as well. Later I decided to use rulers, cups, coins, and anything else to create shapes on paper. Before I knew it I was creating my own designs then coloring them. Today I use my art work on my book covers, and covers for my music albums. I'm also a music composer as well. I'm into visual, and audio arts.😊
Godfrey Reggio?! Wow I'm huge fan of all of his movies and works and I'm delighted to see him here! What an amazing interview truly! I've always searched a interview of him etc but never found one until now!
Everyone involved in the making of this should be very proud. Such a great piece. My favourite part was when he describes how he wanted his funeral to be. With the coffin and to have the organ being played. Really amazing people.
I loved this video. I needed to hear this today as i forget to live in the present moment and actually embrace life and what makes us happy. Thank you!
Thank you for doing these videos! Your choice of topics and interview partners is superb! Godfrey Reggio’s work was always such a huge inspiration. Glad to see him still working!!
Creating helps us stimulate our minds and broaden our ideas and interests. If not for creating, we wouldn't have made much impactful improvements and constantly paving the way for more new advancements to take place in modern society.
thank you fo diz, big think. 🥰😘🤩 'it lewks chaotic but itz actually full of complexity'. me. 🤣🤣🤣 diz was awesomazing, justin. we're all storytellers using watever form we choose to express ourselves. everyone. 💚💎🌟🤗🌹💯💛
Thank you, plwase do many many more of those videos. I feel the same right now and this is a chance to get the opinions of interesting people I wpuld never meet in real life
This is hugely interesting. From their perspective and mine. But I couldn't help noticing Godfrey Reggio mentioned Mania when referring to writing things down and creative aspect. Does he have bipolar? Have research but nothing. I can relate to this with diagnosed with bipolar myself. (And autism). I take medication which surpreses lot of bipolar. But before medication I used to go on creative buzz and load lyrics used to come to the surface. Had write down poems etc. I just saw similarities from this aspect. Anyhow, love these philosophical talks. Brings bit of perspective of what life should be about. ✌️
What is the line between art and function? This is what interests me.... And come to think of it Artisan Light Bulbs fit this category! Thank you Portlandia!
As an artist myself, I think the ultra cluttered mad-scientist style studio is a bit antiquated and actually inhibiting to the creative process. I need my space to be un-cluttered, but I also work big dimension paintings so the space is prerequisite.
The interview with Goddfrey Reggio was one of the best things i've ever seen on RUclips and i just wanted more. Fred Armisen in comparison sounded completely vacuous and lame. Putting these interviews together on the same video is crazy.
This made me realize that I have let go of needing to know the whys of everything. When I was a kid, I had to know why everything. Now I don't feel like there is a why, and if there is I don't care.
Then you go on to say, here we are and we should do some thing with it. I disagree with that. I don't feel like we're obliged to do anything. If you feel like doing something, do it. If you don't then don't. In the end, the universe doesn't care.
You could spend your life staring at your big toe, or you could invent the cure for cancer. One is not better than the other. Inventing the cure for cancer is probably more interesting though.
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Our consciousness is the fabric out of which we make our lives. This consciousness fabric is the ground of our every response to every single thing which happens in our mental, emotional and physical lives. Our consciousness is our reality. This statement may be expressed in two ways, both of which are the truth of existence. Our consciousness creates our reality, irrespective of what the actual facts of our earthly life may be. When people believed the earth was flat, they were afraid to venture too far over the ocean lest the ship should fall over the edge. People who believed in a flat earth, lived according to that belief. When Galileo said the earth was round, he was considered a heretic but his perception of the "roundness of the earth" enabled sailors to take a new look at the world and set out to discover what lay the other side of the ocean. It required a change in their belief to make this possible. We are in a similar position. People who discount and ridicule others are like people who believed in a flat earth and were afraid of falling over the edge if they sailed too far to the west or east of their known environment. Their horizons were severely limited by their false beliefs. So are the horizons of people who believe the world to be solid, also severely restricted. Day after day, people lament and grieve over the misfortunes which have befallen the world, believing there is no escape from them. But people who can grasp and welcome the Truth of Consciousness, are like those who perceived that travel on the oceans can be limitlessly undertaken in all directions, as long as they had the will to set out on such a journey. Therefore, our state of consciousness is the most important consideration in our life... not our relationships or possessions or our position in life. We must tend to our consciousness and the blessedness in all aspects of our life will follow. By our consciousness we feed ourselves with inner love and harmony, joy and beauty, even in the backstreets of a slum. With such consciousness, we will find ourselves being removed from the streets of the slum into an environment in keeping with our inner self. So do we climb out of unpleasant circumstances. From the foregoing, we should now be able to see that only we create the "quality" of our internal world, whether we find ourselves externally in prison or in command of a battleship! And we can enhance our surroundings by radiating to them the life force which animates our thinking. Our external life only impinges on our consciousness. It does not - cannot - create or determine our conscious responses. We are the "creator" of our responses. Our type of creation depends entirely on our deepest perceptions and beliefs regarding existence. Our convictions and strongly-held beliefs may be completely illusory but if we fully believe in them in our subconscious, they become absolutely real for us.
It looks like the subtitles are completely wrong. Mind to fix it, please? They're really helpful for non-native speakers and sometimes contain some fun hidden messages. Edit: Thanks for fixing the subs.
How will people in the future be able to hear how our music sounded like when they won’t have the devices to be able to do so? Can a CD be played without a CD player which by then will be so ancient and outgrown. I have never used a cassette player and if I want to listen to anything from those times I’ll probably search for it on modern databases like RUclips or Spotify . The future is digital and is increasingly rubbing out old forms of technology. But I admire his choice to live life this way
We don’t “create” so much - we use the materials, conditions, and ways of nature according to its immaculate laws … We make things with these base materials and conditions - but only God who created everything here and is still breathing His spirit into us (some of us anyway) actually IS the CREATOR. We need to wake up individually to our destiny - and to our God
I wish three truly thoughtful artistic people were interviewed. I’m originally from Chicago. These guys are considered counter culture but…Albini and Armisen are a very particular type of “artist” from a very specific time whose thought process feels a bit antiquated.
I can't believe we can have that kind of quality content for free!
This is such an incredible compliment! Thanks for watching - we're so happy you're here!
R.I.P. Steve Albini (1962-2024)
🖤🖤🖤
Our current society and its obsession with money and work is slowly killing the creative urge in people. You can't follow your own dreams when youre busy building one for someone else.
Most people don’t have dreams, most of them just act on their instincts and later try to convince themselves that they’re in control of their lives.
Well easy to talk when u have a cushy room in your parents home. What about when someone has to work to get a loan to buy a home and pay bills just to keep a roof and food on the table? Inflataion, education debt, expensive healthcare and housing costs, heavy taxes etc don't allow you to be creative or create for the upcoming generation who do not have trust funds, tax gifts or a home passed on. So hence population decline due to greed of profit for the landlords and corporations and tax lords
@@ArturoGarzaIDMost people do have dreams, but they remain only dreams.
Maybe we're told by society unconsciously what we need to be happy, maybe we're have become unconscious conformist, and make the decision that being creative take time away from being productive and being creative is wasteful when studies show that people are the happiest when creating. Having a creative outlet keeps me sane and at peace be it listening to music, restoring an auto, woodworking etc. Just my two cents.
I spent the last 10 years recording music and touring as a musician in a band. Racked up millions of streams, have played in front of 10s of thousands of people… came out of it penniless cuz the music industry is awful. I have no regrets. I’m working regular jobs right now to keep a roof and eat. Every day a new song is rattling around in my head and I simply wish I had the time and space to realize it. I’ll never stop looking for my opportunities to create no matter how much the indignities of capitalism interfere. To be human is to create meaning and connection, to solely create profit for some remote asshole is to be a machine. It’s not life
MORE, MORE, MORE of these creatives!!!!!!!
I can’t believe this is free. Invaluable. Thank you. 🙏
This is like old tv programs. I love it.
Creating is simply another form of communication.
As this ended, I found a smile on my face. Gentle, wise, wonderous. Thank you for Making this film!
Jebus, what a find. Immediately restarted and watched again. Godfrey's films have been at the top of my favorites list since I found it as a teen in the 90s and it's so great to see an interview with him, he's as genius and cool and artistic as I imagined. Great conversations with everyone, thank you so much for this Big Think Team! This is quality journalism.
I recommended this video to friends who I believed needed an excited needle pointing into a positive direction for 2024.
This is one of the best things I’ve seen on the internet in a LONG time.
Thank you!
This was beautiful and inspiring! Something I'd like to add is this: I was thinking I'd like to call it a "midlife reboot" instead of a "midlife crisis", because it doesn't have to be a bad thing.
This is really beautiful. It’s a rare balance between intentional precision and complete randomness. I’ve really been enjoying your content. There’s something about the comparative nature of having 3 different people discuss the same ideas from different perspectives that really fleshes out the nuance of the topic. Thanks and bravo!
Man i didnt even know who these guys were before this video but holy shit i have HELLA deep respect for their commitment to their respective crafts and their overall creativity!
Dear The Well, please do a full lentgh Godfrey Reggio interview. You know, the one with the white screen pulled up on the background, he SO deserves it. TY
Yessss pleeease 🙋🏽♀️
Wow, that first guy looked and lived as the definition of an artist!
Been a fan a while. Ido like these episodes with this host he does a great job
wow what a masterpiece! definitely coming back to this again. thanks, these interviews are important for our lives
This is definitely one of the most important RUclips videos I’ve ever seen. So many jewels in this video.
What Godfrey Reggio said," Does the content of your mind determine your behavior? Or does your behavior determine the content of your mind?" literally short circuited my monkey brain.
Great watch, all three of them are tremendously interesting, the funeral service was hilarious, it reminded me Elizabeth Taylor, she wanted to be late for her own funeral-so she was, her body was deliberately held back until everyone was seated and sad and then they brought her in, and I think the Priest said:’well, she always said she’s going to be late for her own funeral one day. I’d like my gravestone to read, ‘here lies Joe, buried alive. 😁
This series is too complex and deep for majority of the population, don't feel bad when the view number is low for now, hopefully, this will become viral in a decade or so. This type of work is way ahead of its time.
Your putting yourself too high on a mantle. The algorithm dictates a lot for the views.
I Shutdown a restaurant business i ran for ten years a year and a half ago. I’m about to start my second semester of furniture making school
Please spend even more time with sir Godfrey Reggio. Its great to hear words from him.
Did not want this to end.
Thank you for such pleasure.
Hello everybody. I learned at the age of 8 years old that I could create pictures with a camera. I was hooked. I never told my mother, or anyone about how I loved creating art with that camera. I also enjoyed coloring books as well. Later I decided to use rulers, cups, coins, and anything else to create shapes on paper. Before I knew it I was creating my own designs then coloring them. Today I use my art work on my book covers, and covers for my music albums. I'm also a music composer as well. I'm into visual, and audio arts.😊
I have been a big fan of Steve Albini's work since the late 80s, what a treat!
Godfrey Reggio?! Wow I'm huge fan of all of his movies and works and I'm delighted to see him here!
What an amazing interview truly!
I've always searched a interview of him etc but never found one until now!
Glad you enjoyed it! Our team had about the same reaction getting the chance to hang out in his studio for a day. 😍
@@bigthink 😯 lucky for you to meet with those great people :)
Thank you for this unique effort :)
Everyone involved in the making of this should be very proud. Such a great piece. My favourite part was when he describes how he wanted his funeral to be. With the coffin and to have the organ being played. Really amazing people.
I loved this video. I needed to hear this today as i forget to live in the present moment and actually embrace life and what makes us happy. Thank you!
This has got to be the most profound episode for me. Such a deep & insightful conversation, it really moved me. Thank you.
YES!! Make art... more art, good art. Thank you for this inspirational episode, BT
Chaos vs Complexity opens new doors, Order vs Simplicity
Loved these interviews! ❤
Literally watched this video the night before the news broke. RIP Steve Albini
Love love love this video, documentary ❤❤❤❤Thank you for creating this work😊
Well presented Kmele, and a solid lineup of respectable characters.
Thank you for doing these videos!
Your choice of topics and interview partners is superb!
Godfrey Reggio’s work was always such a huge inspiration.
Glad to see him still working!!
Beautiful, inspiring, heartwarming piece of work. Thankyou for sharing your path of exploring.
Thank the universe for this video. Such profound ideas shared between artistic legends!
A 31 minutes commitment that is totally worth it!!
This was awesome and inspirational. The interviewer did a fantastic job! Thank you for sharing this! ❤
Analog…paper vs bits.
All work is individual intuitive efforts is the best I can get from the documentary.
Creating helps us stimulate our minds and broaden our ideas and interests. If not for creating, we wouldn't have made much impactful improvements and constantly paving the way for more new advancements to take place in modern society.
Please release the full interview with Steve Albini - seems like there must be more to it!
Thank you! This video is very inspirational
thank you fo diz, big think.
🥰😘🤩
'it lewks chaotic but itz actually full of complexity'.
me.
🤣🤣🤣
diz was awesomazing, justin.
we're all storytellers using watever form we choose to express ourselves.
everyone.
💚💎🌟🤗🌹💯💛
Thank you, plwase do many many more of those videos. I feel the same right now and this is a chance to get the opinions of interesting people I wpuld never meet in real life
THOREAU hahahhhaha i was so ready for FRED's quote drop
Stravinsky, Koyaanisqatsi, Steve Albini all stuff I can relate to.
This was excellent. More like this please.
Great to see this posted again, good show!
This was fantastic, thank you so much. Refreshing, inspiring, and such lovely fellows the lot of you :)
Wow this was amazing!! Thank you so much for this documentaries ❤
What an amazing interview .. great insight and keep the magic moving !! 😊 god is good 👍
I'm really enjoying the longer content from you guys recently
This is hugely interesting. From their perspective and mine. But I couldn't help noticing Godfrey Reggio mentioned Mania when referring to writing things down and creative aspect. Does he have bipolar? Have research but nothing. I can relate to this with diagnosed with bipolar myself. (And autism). I take medication which surpreses lot of bipolar. But before medication I used to go on creative buzz and load lyrics used to come to the surface. Had write down poems etc. I just saw similarities from this aspect.
Anyhow, love these philosophical talks. Brings bit of perspective of what life should be about. ✌️
This has made my day and added confirmation to my present direction. Just wow.
A fantastic interviewer! ❤
Brilliant video! Very interesting people, and great presentation!
Absolutely amazing interviews ❤
Very informative great work.
Beautiful.
What is the line between art and function? This is what interests me.... And come to think of it Artisan Light Bulbs fit this category! Thank you Portlandia!
great interviews thank you
As an artist myself, I think the ultra cluttered mad-scientist style studio is a bit antiquated and actually inhibiting to the creative process. I need my space to be un-cluttered, but I also work big dimension paintings so the space is prerequisite.
The interview with Goddfrey Reggio was one of the best things i've ever seen on RUclips and i just wanted more.
Fred Armisen in comparison sounded completely vacuous and lame. Putting these interviews together on the same video is crazy.
Absolutely love this!
This made me realize that I have let go of needing to know the whys of everything. When I was a kid, I had to know why everything. Now I don't feel like there is a why, and if there is I don't care.
Then you go on to say, here we are and we should do some thing with it. I disagree with that. I don't feel like we're obliged to do anything. If you feel like doing something, do it. If you don't then don't. In the end, the universe doesn't care.
You could spend your life staring at your big toe, or you could invent the cure for cancer. One is not better than the other. Inventing the cure for cancer is probably more interesting though.
But, why?
@@GizzyDillespee So clever.
@@theobserver9131everything you do leads to an chainreaction, in that way the universe kinda cares
that was great.
Beautiful work, this video
Perfectly beautiful
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Excellent!
This is so awesome ❤
Awesome
Our consciousness is the fabric out of which we make our lives.
This consciousness fabric is the ground of our every response to every single thing which happens in our mental, emotional and physical lives.
Our consciousness is our reality.
This statement may be expressed in two ways, both of which are the truth of existence.
Our consciousness creates our reality, irrespective of what the actual facts of our earthly life may be.
When people believed the earth was flat, they were afraid to venture too far over the ocean lest the ship should fall over the edge. People who believed in a flat earth, lived according to that belief.
When Galileo said the earth was round, he was considered a heretic but his perception of the "roundness of the earth" enabled sailors to take a new look at the world and set out to discover what lay the other side of the ocean. It required a change in their belief to make this possible.
We are in a similar position. People who discount and ridicule others are like people who believed in a flat earth and were afraid of falling over the edge if they sailed too far to the west or east of their known environment. Their horizons were severely limited by their false beliefs. So are the horizons of people who believe the world to be solid, also severely restricted.
Day after day, people lament and grieve over the misfortunes which have befallen the world, believing there is no escape from them.
But people who can grasp and welcome the Truth of Consciousness, are like those who perceived that travel on the oceans can be limitlessly undertaken in all directions, as long as they had the will to set out on such a journey.
Therefore, our state of consciousness is the most important consideration in our life... not our relationships or possessions or our position in life.
We must tend to our consciousness and the blessedness in all aspects of our life will follow.
By our consciousness we feed ourselves with inner love and harmony, joy and beauty, even in the backstreets of a slum.
With such consciousness, we will find ourselves being removed from the streets of the slum into an environment in keeping with our inner self. So do we climb out of unpleasant circumstances.
From the foregoing, we should now be able to see that only we create the "quality" of our internal world, whether we find ourselves externally in prison or in command of a battleship!
And we can enhance our surroundings by radiating to them the life force which animates our thinking.
Our external life only impinges on our consciousness. It does not - cannot - create or determine our conscious responses.
We are the "creator" of our responses.
Our type of creation depends entirely on our deepest perceptions and beliefs regarding existence.
Our convictions and strongly-held beliefs may be completely illusory but if we fully believe in them in our subconscious, they become absolutely real for us.
Good thing men are big on innovation, engineering, ingenuity, creation, manual labor, and survival.
It looks like the subtitles are completely wrong. Mind to fix it, please? They're really helpful for non-native speakers and sometimes contain some fun hidden messages. Edit: Thanks for fixing the subs.
This was fun!💯❤️🔥
That’s a good one bro! And we’re the same age, btw!
This was great
That’s actually an interesting question!
Nice and smart !
Awesome👌
How will people in the future be able to hear how our music sounded like when they won’t have the devices to be able to do so? Can a CD be played without a CD player which by then will be so ancient and outgrown. I have never used a cassette player and if I want to listen to anything from those times I’ll probably search for it on modern databases like RUclips or Spotify . The future is digital and is increasingly rubbing out old forms of technology. But I admire his choice to live life this way
Iamalsovisionaryintrovertartist🎉
Measwell
The is a jewel!
Thanks for watching! 💎
We don’t “create” so much - we use the materials, conditions, and ways of nature according to its immaculate laws … We make things with these base materials and conditions - but only God who created everything here and is still breathing His spirit into us (some of us anyway) actually IS the CREATOR.
We need to wake up individually to our destiny - and to our God
I deny the accident (I.e., the chaos) - Jackson Pollock
Big Black is such good music
"What is most present is least seen"
Interesting
Love your channel! I have one question, why have you uploaded the same video again with a new title?
❤
For some it's mid life crisis for others it's mid life transition.
I wish three truly thoughtful artistic people were interviewed. I’m originally from Chicago. These guys are considered counter culture but…Albini and Armisen are a very particular type of “artist” from a very specific time whose thought process feels a bit antiquated.
The title of this video is what intrigued me to click on it but I didn't find that the actual content aligned with it
We don't create, we just rearrange.
somebody what was the song in the beginning which is Stravinsky. i can't find it anywhere
R.I.P Albini