My favorite instrument is a garden rake and my canvas is the beach at low tide. All artists would benefit from taking your rake to the beach to experience drawing on a huge scale. Increase your spacial awareness and feel the freedom of using your whole body. So grateful for the insights you shared. Namaste from New Zealand ❤
The key takeaways are to create everyday. Carry a physical art journal with you. Make it as easy as possible for yourself to get in the habit of creating. Then seek out other creators who you admire. Find past creations that inspire you. Build a wealth of experience and skills. Don't expect to have immediate success. Many of the most well known artists, like Vincent Van Gogh, took years, decades or even a lifetime to finally be recognized. Don't create for money or fame or external validation. Create to express your inner light, to share your experiences and elevate consciousness. Create for the simple joy of creation. After all, that's what you've been put on this earth to do. Alex uses Ken Wilbert's "Four Quadrants" to further explain to the process of creation - I / We / It / Its. First, creation begins with self exploration - Learning, intention, vision - it's what's in your heart. Second, it's getting the creation out into the studio, bringing the vision into the material world. Third, is about all the systems in the world in which you can deploy your art - the internet, social media, galleries, museums, concerts, cafes, etc. Lastly, the fourth quadrant, is the integration of your art into culture. It's the reaction and discussion of your art, which ultimately affects the entire web of consciousness.
These two are great. I met both of them once. Alex probably couldn't really hear me fanboying over the music in the venue but Allyson actually explained her art to me for a minute. Major blessing.
“Well marinated” versus “fast food” is great comparison to understand current moment of Human hand/mind created art vs Prompt/computer generated digital art, thanks for this video!
Fantastic, a list a Jo Bongers please, and we'll all be off ta see the wizard. Great podcast here, caught 3 or 4 episodes. Viewing this from Ireland, Bongers not an ancestral Irish name, but with all the immigration and the knockin' at the doors, I'll be doing, quizically canvassing the words "are you a bonger", I'll have the list before the weeks out, so yer grand. Shine on all crazy diamonds. What an Artist he is.
I expect we have thousands of artist now working as a result of the pandemic. That time to face our own values in life. We also have thousands of boomers now focused on art as they suddenly have time. A wave of people who need to create and who have little chance of their work reaching the world. We do it any way. We do it with the pent up frustrations of a life time. We do it with the passion of a Salmon spawning. As a side note, I love Alex's work! I very mush doubt his work would thrive in a world with AI. It just looks like digital reality. Will we ever be able to appreciate human labor? Maybe I should put a label on the back of my work, "No electrons were harmed in the MANufacturing of this painting."
I see painting become less and less valuable in the future and things like sculpture and other objects becoming a more popular medium due to AI takeover of painting or images that look like paintings
Thank you Alex ( and Before School ) for these words of wisdom ?!! I love you art and have for years !! I always think about how much the paints cost Vincent Van Gogh ,and how he “wasn’t cheap” in the fabulous way he so generously applied that expensive material . He gobbled it on in his inimitable way . God bless you for all your work and what it means - electricity connects everything instantly ( if you haven’t - check out the Thunderbolts project and the electric universe) - your art and your words are electrifying !!!!🙏 [ Van Gogh’s self portraits are so amazingly haunting, the way he looks back across and through time - so piercing , eyes so steady with so much movement - coupled with the incredibly ironic legacy of Van Gogh in poverty and the rest of the world scrambling to get as much money for everything of his as greedily possible, making money off of his poverty as it were ……thank you for bringing his sister in law to light 🙏🌏✌️🙏🌏✌️] - from Wyoming 👏👏👏👏👏
Alex is worth listening to on repeat in real time, smth like five Alexes at a time. Get stuck in a trace of his words repeating on all quantum planes of your creative horizon
My favorite instrument is a garden rake and my canvas is the beach at low tide. All artists would benefit from taking your rake to the beach to experience drawing on a huge scale. Increase your spacial awareness and feel the freedom of using your whole body. So grateful for the insights you shared. Namaste from New Zealand ❤
But how do you see the finished piece? Genuinely curious. Or are they not THAT big
Art needs to evolve. We don't need pretty paintings, we need real vision conveyed.
The key takeaways are to create everyday. Carry a physical art journal with you. Make it as easy as possible for yourself to get in the habit of creating. Then seek out other creators who you admire. Find past creations that inspire you. Build a wealth of experience and skills. Don't expect to have immediate success. Many of the most well known artists, like Vincent Van Gogh, took years, decades or even a lifetime to finally be recognized. Don't create for money or fame or external validation. Create to express your inner light, to share your experiences and elevate consciousness. Create for the simple joy of creation. After all, that's what you've been put on this earth to do.
Alex uses Ken Wilbert's "Four Quadrants" to further explain to the process of creation - I / We / It / Its. First, creation begins with self exploration - Learning, intention, vision - it's what's in your heart. Second, it's getting the creation out into the studio, bringing the vision into the material world. Third, is about all the systems in the world in which you can deploy your art - the internet, social media, galleries, museums, concerts, cafes, etc. Lastly, the fourth quadrant, is the integration of your art into culture. It's the reaction and discussion of your art, which ultimately affects the entire web of consciousness.
That be cool skool
Alex is worth listening to on repeat at real time, like five Alexes at a time, get stuck in a dance of all of his word's traces
Wow. Thank you for this. Beautiful art beautiful words beautiful persons
These two are great. I met both of them once. Alex probably couldn't really hear me fanboying over the music in the venue but Allyson actually explained her art to me for a minute. Major blessing.
“Well marinated” versus “fast food” is great comparison to understand current moment of Human hand/mind created art vs Prompt/computer generated digital art, thanks for this video!
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You are building bridges, thank you very much for this.
Exactly! Great advice! My Art is strange and misunderstood but its my passion! ❤😊
Thank you!!!
Thanks for this.
Jackson Pollock will spend time with you as well, don't question it. You make a connection with the artist via the art.
As time passes, the outlier point from a bell curve becomes a beacon.
Fantastic, a list a Jo Bongers please, and we'll all be off ta see the wizard. Great podcast here, caught 3 or 4 episodes. Viewing this from Ireland, Bongers not an ancestral Irish name, but with all the immigration and the knockin' at the doors, I'll be doing, quizically canvassing the words "are you a bonger", I'll have the list before the weeks out, so yer grand. Shine on all crazy diamonds. What an Artist he is.
thank you for this
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I expect we have thousands of artist now working as a result of the pandemic. That time to face our own values in life. We also have thousands of boomers now focused on art as they suddenly have time. A wave of people who need to create and who have little chance of their work reaching the world.
We do it any way. We do it with the pent up frustrations of a life time. We do it with the passion of a Salmon spawning.
As a side note, I love Alex's work! I very mush doubt his work would thrive in a world with AI. It just looks like digital reality. Will we ever be able to appreciate human labor? Maybe I should put a label on the back of my work, "No electrons were harmed in the MANufacturing of this painting."
I see painting become less and less valuable in the future and things like sculpture and other objects becoming a more popular medium due to AI takeover of painting or images that look like paintings
Thank you Alex ( and Before School ) for these words of wisdom ?!! I love you art and have for years !! I always think about how much the paints cost Vincent Van Gogh ,and how he “wasn’t cheap” in the fabulous way he so generously applied that expensive material . He gobbled it on in his inimitable way . God bless you for all your work and what it means - electricity connects everything instantly ( if you haven’t - check out the Thunderbolts project and the electric universe) - your art and your words are electrifying !!!!🙏 [ Van Gogh’s self portraits are so amazingly haunting, the way he looks back across and through time - so piercing , eyes so steady with so much movement - coupled with the incredibly ironic legacy of Van Gogh in poverty and the rest of the world scrambling to get as much money for everything of his as greedily possible, making money off of his poverty as it were ……thank you for bringing his sister in law to light 🙏🌏✌️🙏🌏✌️] - from Wyoming 👏👏👏👏👏
Sign yr deal at the crossroads and get a boost
0:34 is there a credit for this hand?
leonardo da vinci
@@AfterSkool amazing. Thank you
praise the TECH spirit OF THE LAWDDDDD for AI SPIRT ART
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Simple. Just become an alien.
Those Van Gogh exhibits are so wack.
Gray Lost me long ago when he asserted how much of an Obama groupie he was...a good artist at best, knowledgeable on anything other than drugs...not
Alex is worth listening to on repeat in real time, smth like five Alexes at a time. Get stuck in a trace of his words repeating on all quantum planes of your creative horizon