internet destroys authenticity, i believe building proper infrastructure IRL then taking it online without playing the social media game is key to build a cohesive body of art.
old fashioned networking. go places, meet people, ask for their number, not their instagram, then call them and meet again. do interesting things and share none of it on social media
@@onemorechris Yeah I feel you on that, I didn’t want to but I just moved out to the East coast for college so I could connect and get more engaged with fashion because there wasn’t too many fashion events, connections, etc where I lived.
After hopping of both IG and TikTok last July amd really only focusing on RUclips I've seen a huge shift in mindset, spiritual and emotional health, and the use of my free time. I'm more present from moment to moment, I've read loads of books, and I've spent more time resting and meditating. I think you hit the nail on the head with part 2 and I really love the connections between the commodification of art and the pigeonhole of our personalities. Kudos as always 🎉
Thanks Kara - always appreciate seeing you in the comments here, and yeah, super happy this one can connect with your own story there. Thanks for taking the time to drop in and share a piece of your thoughts on this.
t's pronounced "say-mo," a moniker for the phrase "same old, same old" which a popular term amongst street artists at the time and signified the mundane-ness of life. Great vid
Might be just me, but i enjoy the process of creating art. Be that beats, graphic design, and paintings. I just enjoy creating it's like sharpening a sword. The more you sharpen it, the better the blade will become. Validation will come. You just gotta sharpen your craft.
nah we on the same boat , its like the journey bein more worth it than the reward , it gives u a sense of purpose along with spiritual support knowin that u cookin up sum great
I can’t believe this is a real comment. Like this is the most basic observation ever? What even the fuck are you saying. Yeah people enjoy making art you. Hundreds of thousands of people, millions. It’s often why people do it? What is the point of this at all? You don’t sound smart like you just sound like a pretentious idiot lol
Incredible video, I appreciate your integrity in your messaging and I hope ideas like this become the new renaissance of the next generation. We are really ready to move on.
Yeah I definitely hear you on this. It's a strange world out there. I certainly am talking to myself in these videos too, and want to make more art in the real, physical world in the coming months. Thanks for taking the time to drop the support and kind words in here. Know that it matters.
Thanks onegunnymom - that's so great to wake up and see the support coming in, and that the message is heard like that. This channel thanks you greatly, and good to hear Memphis is represented here.
You say Basquiat understood commerce, he did. He understood the line between his transmitting his personage through a medium, he developed an understanding of the art world and its patronage, which did flatten him. It shaped him. He was accessible. If you were a New Yorker and went to Washington Square park you saw him. And his family. He seemed to release by riding his bicycle around the park. But you'd never know how his connection with the Art World, the institution of wealth was changing him the way patrons and corporations do. Connecting to patrons, market forces and corporations as an observer can deliver you a full picture of the world. Those who live and those who eat it up and the mechanisms in which they operate. It can give you a unique perspective if you can manage not to apply too much of yourself to what you digested. Basquiat's need to express his reality allowed him that. Patron culture's need to eat it up, ate him up at the same time because of his want for acceptance, maybe even fame. I would say the same for Prince. I inject him everywhere because he is also his own iconry and commerce. In my mind a model of how to center yourself, and package and set your price, the terms of your distribution, even in the corporate commerce space. Right down to asserting control over your creations, better the manifestations of your self down to setting the terms of creation, packaging, communications, pricing and delivery... and to the point that you control the engagement of your "fans," the people who want to touch, identify with that piece of you to the degree they adopt it as their own. This is what took Prince down. The external value and control of his work by corporations. The norm of corporate pick me mentality. The underground scavengers and wolves, disrupters and destabilizers. The blood and the labyrinth of distribution. He knew digital could set him free. Early digital betrayed him. The insecure platforms took and slung his works to spectators as drug. It turned fans against him as they robbed him of the value of his work, further enslaving him with every download. Then a hungry army of speculators who wanted pieces of his body, but most importantly his heart, his life, the personage so many of us carry in our brains, his sounds seeded in our lives. Simply continuing this without him, is like crack. As a prime case in point, Prince was more than self-sufficient, all of his works and needs were made manifest through his concepts and control. Every aspect of his works and commerce conceived and controlled by him. He lived off of his imagination, if not for contract. Omnipresent he extended this to his circles, and cities. His focus was stern business, contracts put him under the gun to deliver, and to meet contractual quota. He embodied and controlled every part of his life . Literally, Paisley Park was his corporate self manifest. It was his musical arsenal and corporate shell and armor. IT was his strategic center, marketeer and merch, studio, clothier, stadium, night club, transportation, industry association. Only thing not tangible was to break through distribution, and he was almost there. Yes, signing a contract was unnecessarily giving himself away. Digital sold him off for a song. Merely, wanting to own his masters because he more than earned them made him a lifetime meal for speculators. This morning I watched "LIVE: House committee hearing on copyright issues, royalties and inequities for recording artists." We can't be part-time agents of our own livelihoods. We can't give away our art and skills because we inherited an employee mindset. We cant fight for cubicles and backstab for those crumbs. We need to establish markets. We need to be able to perform in our markets; and own our products, services, art. We need to be able to set the value and be compensated directly. Platforms can be established as market places, and that in itself should be open to creation and performance, but we have to be able to drive our creations and services through commerce to distribution and come out compensated, more than fairly, at the value we assign.
"[social media] wants to say, there's an easy definition of you in this place..." that insight at the end of part 2, AWESOME. I am hip to how social media works- with its bells and whistles to keep us hooked on there, but I think in that conversation, many neglect the more simple fact that it's so comfortable, lacks complexity/defines you/other people simply.. translated perfectly to Basquaits experience too. you're awesome. perfect video to start my day, and relevant to some major decisions i'm making now about next steps in my practice. pretty much heading to wherever i'm most intimidated/uncomfortable at this point. 🎉❤👑
Using whatever gives you the most resistance, as a guide to the direction to head towards - I hear you on this. In terms of some of my own practice, I have this sentence I've been asking myself - Are you trying to avoid the harder thing? It really helps me assess whether i'm taking on projects that are truly the most valuable, or whether I'm moving towards easier paths to validation or something like that. Anyway, I'm really glad this video connected for you, and thanks again for dropping your thoughts, and the kind words - it matters my side.
I am a music producer that releases music 🎵 mostly on my own. I spend countless hours alone trying to get attention on my art while at the same time trying to connect with humans . It is a daunting task and I battle with both trying to be a recluse so I have time to make art and be a part of humanity at the same time. Sometimes I question my life choices and how I’ve chosen to spend my time. Other times I think 🤔 I didn’t even make the choice because there is nothing else I could ever do besides make music 🎵. How can an artists make great art 🖼️ without millions of followers yet find enough inspiration to continue the path even without the validation of success or money. I struggle with this concept often as I am not required to get shows to survive right now. Any tips from other creators is appreciated. ❤
Send out as many beats as possible. Make your work free, put genuine connections over fake online ones by getting respect and you might get paid one day.. don’t make your art a money chase
I’m only like two years in. I pushed off my dreams for rapping for years. Everything has its time. You have to get to a place where your detached from the results. Like you pay attention because if your tryna to construct yourself as a business and brand you have to but yet don’t let the numbers get to you. I feel the same way. But we have to put ourselves in positions to grind out. Don’t beat yourself up if you fall into procrastination or not feeling like you’re doing enough. I’ve feel into this trap twice in two years. I would say just make a schedule and stay on that. If you feel it’s getting back change order small things. Sometimes you have to change other things around the music. And truly try and stay in tune with yourself. Idk if this helps at out
bro you’re hella cool, i really respect the deep thinking and analysis you are sharing with the world. this planet needs people like you to foster conversation and community. thank you boss
Some much needed food for thought. This is one of those things I know I need to think about more but have been struggling to make the conscious choice too. I think that's what it is for me - it's all so automatic and effortless... but it's not like I'm happy this way. Something being effortless doesn't inherently make it positive. Thank you for putting it right in front of me, I needed this prompt.
So glad this could connect with your own practice in that way. I definitely wrote this one kind of as a letter to myself too - so that need for awareness to make more conscious decisions around content is something I'm in also. Thanks for taking the time to comment and drop a piece of your thoughts.
hey man, I really appreciate the work that goes into these pieces you create, keep up the incredible work. As an artist myself, I'm always picking up gems watching your videos, i hope that you succeed and thrive always, and In the ways that you envision doing so. Stay awesome!
Appreciate that massively Kamz - the support in the comments matters out here, and yeah just super glad I can offer stuff I find to help the people following along. Cheers
I hope Basquiat's family gets some of the proceeds from his artwork. He was a genius who did not want to fit in the square box that society wanted to squeeze him into❤
One of your best videos...and Basquiat is one of my favorite artists. The duality of every artists is how to make money while keeping your artistic integrity.
Appreciate that, glad this video is connecting with the artists out here. I'm not going to lie, I didn't know that much about Basquiat before I started this one, but really built a love for his work whilst making it. Thanks for taking the time to drop in and share the love and support - it matters. Pweaace
One things that is really sad is that a lot of his work being gobbled up into capitalistic media, t shirts, tote bags, etc. That his family sold out to that and let his work go and get warped for something like a paycheck.
Thank you so much for creating this video. This video couldn't of come at a better time because of the assignment I did for my online SCOM class. I gave a speech about the effects social media and scrolling impacts how our communication, critical thinking, and creative skills, so this video seems like a reminder that I need to have a better relationship with social media and not allow myself to caught up in the escapism that it provides. I've watched a couple of your videos and I wanted to say please keep it up, you're definitely expanding peoples' minds more than you know. Thank you again.
Really digging the content you're putting out there man, so important for everyone to hear. I feel fortunate that I grew up before the days of the internet and mobile phones, but that's put me so out of touch. You're bringing the best aspects of real life, and technology, and wrapping it up with a nice philosophical bow on top. I hope you're voice reaches the ears and minds of many folk out there, you're doing a great thing. Thanks for doing what you do. Appreciate ya, take it easy 👍
Cheers Tommy. I appreciate that support and glad these videos are feeling nicely balanced in that way. I feel like I'm kind of in the last generation of people who grew up without a smart phone, and right now, I feel lucky for that. Thanks for taking the time to comment here, and drop in.
i’ve just got back from New York. The only Basquiat work on public display was on the shop window of Uniclo. Quite remarkable that the only work of his actually hanging on a wall in the city he worked in is in a bankers penthouse
The full unedited Wallace interview for German television, where the featured clips are from, is some of the best content on YT. It's more like a discussion between David and the interviewer - but I'm sure you've seen it, just had to mention it if someone reading the comments isn't aware of it yet :D
Man it's amazing how well you're able to express your thoughts and ideas. How long does it take you to write these scripts? Are they all small pieces written down over time that you then bring together? Or do you sit down and get this all out? Because it's super well thought out, and puts into words very accurately how I, and many of my creative friends, feel. The thoughts tend to hang in the back of my mind but with no true conclusion/action to take. So thanks for this. Food for thought that helps us digest! 🙏
Awesome and thought provoking. I needed to hear this because I deleted my social media a few months back and wondered what the next step in online integration might be career-wise. I'd like to be a conscious content creator, and at the very least, avoid hypocrisy. Basquiat's art is super inspirational for any visual artist... I had a friend who painted like him - it seems to come from a mental state that is both extremely free to express the inner soul, and yet also feels trapped by society. I suppose the same can be said for all artists but some bring that conflict together in a way that can make you feel the heavy reality of that experience just by viewing the work. Thank you for the book recommendations and great video. I'll screenshot those prompts and bear the questions in mind as I develop better day to day lifestyle and business habits.
Appreciate this comment Treyton. Avoiding hypocrisy is a key bit of language I'm hearing here. It's something that can be a struggle my side no doubt - trying to make thumbnails and titles that make sense but will still travel well and all that - it's definitely a balance that I'm constantly having to find this side. Thanks again for engaging with the content, and power to you on your journey.
Thank you for your insight and knowledge! You are very well studied and you present the history very well. This is the kind of teaching I wish I had in school about art. Keep up the great work!
This is honestly one for the best videos on art I’ve seen on RUclips You simply summarized how consumerism in art in content has rotted our brains and removed us from what art truly is: subjective. Make what u want, and make it with intention bc there’s an audience for u and that audience can just be yourself
I just caught this comment - so happy this video resonated for you in this way. And yeah, thanks for the support and taking the time to drop the comment - it matters.
Truly Beautiful video, Concise but Heavy Information put Together So Clean. This type of Art is Needed Beyond Measures we could ever Dream About. Keep Going, Please & Stay Strong! Sending Luv♾️
Really glad you enjoyed this one, and know that the kind words and support matter. You right, the info got heavy in this one, happy people came along for the ride. Thanks again for taking the time to comment.
How dependent. Social media is like a cigarette to me now, its the one thing I guarantee everyday. Even over my dreams, I have so much access to everything I want to do and its damn near impossible to focus. Entertainment endless vs being able to study anything you could dream off. I could go on forever man
This morning I asked my bf to go off short form media like tiktok reels and shorts for a month. The removal of the app from it's spot has really defined the persistent of the urge to get that hit
You know I’m a cook, and I really love the art of cooking, I love working in fine dining places and being honest a lot of times people ask me to do a TikTok or ig account to make basics recipes, and make me “famous”. I don’t have anything against content creators of food and whatever actually there’s some of them that I like, but meeting with chefs and people that’s have been going for the long road, French chefs with 20’years old careers, idk man I rather be known in the real world, being remembered by the chefs and cooks are actually understanding what’s happening. Now it’s hard for me in a way to think that to engage with more younger people and sharing my art and thoughts maybe the only way is sharing in social media. I have 9 years cooking in different countries and with really amazing people, those are the guys that I’m proud that they remember me how I remember them. At the end fame and glory or whatever doesn’t make you create more art, I believe that we have the power and the will in all of us that aims for creation! Keep being creative!
"we may admire what he does, but we despise what he is.” ― Wilhelm von Humboldt It suggests that our admiration for external accomplishments can be overshadowed by disdain for the person's true nature or values. I suspect very few people cared for the person Basquait was. Only really intersted in the economic value of his work and the "cool" association that brings.
We shouldn't blame it solely on internet, we have the ability to change it so we gotta adapt with - It could be as simple as running each morning without a phone disconnected being around nothing but yourself :) find space for you to be and to not always be entertained. I loved it very deep message with gorgeos storytelling hit my soul.
For some reason I'm beginning to question if my dread of existing is solely attributed to trauma..or could it be THAT and ALSO this stereotype of being, of HUMAN BEING, that's been so heavily perpetuated through media. Like in the act of doing, human being has devolved into a caricature now, that's just how I feel after watching this video. For me expressing said existence through art is just ugh, focused on reception, doing something for something, being worried about getting SOMETHING back, thirsting after that - like I just posted some art yesterday and I'm worried about numbers....FUCKING NUMBERS. Idk if I make any sense, I just feel how I feel.
Hey bro - I had to put the speed to 1.50 to get through the video. I am not sure what is up but the many breaks and empty space between the speech made it really hard for me to stay and watch. Nice material otherwise - all good - I recommend some diction exercises / flow discourse research. Just looking out for a bro out there and offered my feedback - I am here for you if you want to touchdown more. Good luck with your projects!
JMB loved making art and being an artist, but the fame and the money must have led him to self-loathing because he allowed himself to be pimped out by the dealers, critics and gallery owners.
heroin is a pure example of capitalism. capitalism destroys artists. andy warhol saw this but was sort of autistically dissociated from it. andy warhol saw basquiat destroying himself with heroin but was dissociated. he did not know how to be a mentor. andy warhol collaborated with basquiat. those collaborative works are really moving. i take the SAMO period quite seriously. he writes short poems, very reflective and thought and emotion stimulating. to me SAMO was the obvious precursor to Banksy. I don't know much about art, but I can see sensitivity, passion, pain, expression, intelligence, energy. Also I wish DFW and Mark Fisher had stuck around for Byung-Chul Han. Han would have impressed DFW particularly I think. Maybe would have given him some hope.
Independence rather than individualism. Absolute individualism would cause us as humans to never learn from each other nor collaborate and evolve collectively.
I did a lot of research on different artists. They all got out of life what they wanted. I never liked their private lives. I do enjoy the art they left behind. Their private lives was nobody's business.
I’ve been watching your videos for a while now, and always really enjoy them, they give me little boosts every time. I wanted to see if you’d like to join my journal experiment I’m doing to help me with my goals?
Heroine is such a great drug for making art. When I was an addict I was prolific! I made my best, most confident art when I was a junkie. I’m clean now and have been for 15 years but I’ll never paint and create like I did when I had that. It’s amazing what that drug does for art.
You just gotta learn how to play in creativity not on h, ya mein.. to art on the street ls super freeing.. and can help break out of normal art.. so dont knock graff .. yall.. be free
I don’t understand the tone towards graffiti or starting as a graffiti artist, it’s not a lie, he did graffiti and ran around with his friends and he had a tag and he evolved. I don’t understand the whole him being in graffiti was a lie statement ?
I don't get it. He copied obscure, ancient symbols from a book like a collage. His paintings never seem to be included in the recognized masterpieces when I search. It can't be just racism
bc if you did why would you make a youtube video about it.. thats like me shooting heroin and then babbling for 20 min.. "what basquiat taught me about being sober"
Could Bassquiat draw? Did he ever practice drawing literal things from observation? Did he know the rules before he broke them or was he just painting like my toddler does? Sincerely asking.
Portraiture and figurative drawing started dying out as forms of artistic expression with the advent of photography. Painting became expressionist as European artists leaned towards African sculpture for inspiration. Art also became conceptual as seen in the works of Salvador Dali and Marcel Duchamp. My point is that the mastery of drawing as a qualifying skill for a fine artist pre-dated the invention of photography. Obviously, life and figurative drawing did remain important in the academic setting, but not in the world of dealers and art galleries which is the commercial industry of art. JMB’s paintings and drawings were coded for the appreciation of people who love imagery, social commentary and history. His works are mostly about the history of black people in America whose ancestry is African. Appreciating modern art is a bit like appreciating the Jazz form called Be-bop. To some Miles Davis was just noise while to the cognoscenti he was a musical genius.
Honest question, have you been in an art gallery, sold a painting? I don't think your definition of what drawing is matters very much, much like a toddlers to an adult.
Not mentioning the structural roots of the issues made your points lacking. Like Basquiat you have problems with structures but do not want to name them. Capitalism was not mentioned once. It is the reason social media is designed to be addictive and reactionary. It is why those that own most of the wealth do not want marginalized voices in art. One of the Problems with Basquiat is that he wanted to be apart of the capitalist class making his critiques of racism fall flat since he is not going to the root. Also the points on coddling fall really close to fascistic clichés of: "Men are weak now. We need strong violent men". The commericial you sited is an ad that was selling the idea of the "best" possible outcome under capitalism: being a passive consumer. Social media does not succeed at that. Most rely on inflamatory or bigoted content like youtube. 10000s of reactionary accounts that spew a content mill of hate filled garbage. A lot are addicted to those and develop para social groups around attacking marginalized groups. Having people be hateful is better then them being passive for big business. It gives those in power useful people to deflect structural issues of capitalism onto the "other" existing.
He was describing capitalism lol, he just didn't say the word. This allows you to find the point, instead of feeding it to you. You know, a lot like said artists work...
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internet destroys authenticity, i believe building proper infrastructure IRL then taking it online without playing the social media game is key to build a cohesive body of art.
Late but how would one do this?
old fashioned networking. go places, meet people, ask for their number, not their instagram, then call them and meet again. do interesting things and share none of it on social media
@@onemorechris Got it thanks man 👍🏾
@@Igotthebagx it feels risky as first, but does work
@@onemorechris Yeah I feel you on that, I didn’t want to but I just moved out to the East coast for college so I could connect and get more engaged with fashion because there wasn’t too many fashion events, connections, etc where I lived.
After hopping of both IG and TikTok last July amd really only focusing on RUclips I've seen a huge shift in mindset, spiritual and emotional health, and the use of my free time. I'm more present from moment to moment, I've read loads of books, and I've spent more time resting and meditating. I think you hit the nail on the head with part 2 and I really love the connections between the commodification of art and the pigeonhole of our personalities. Kudos as always 🎉
Thanks Kara - always appreciate seeing you in the comments here, and yeah, super happy this one can connect with your own story there. Thanks for taking the time to drop in and share a piece of your thoughts on this.
Welcome to the club 🐉🥋🥊🔥⚡️🌙
t's pronounced "say-mo," a moniker for the phrase "same old, same old" which a popular term amongst street artists at the time and signified the mundane-ness of life. Great vid
Might be just me, but i enjoy the process of creating art. Be that beats, graphic design, and paintings. I just enjoy creating it's like sharpening a sword. The more you sharpen it, the better the blade will become. Validation will come. You just gotta sharpen your craft.
nah we on the same boat , its like the journey bein more worth it than the reward , it gives u a sense of purpose along with spiritual support knowin that u cookin up sum great
This comment is beautiful ❤
I can’t believe this is a real comment. Like this is the most basic observation ever? What even the fuck are you saying. Yeah people enjoy making art you. Hundreds of thousands of people, millions. It’s often why people do it? What is the point of this at all? You don’t sound smart like you just sound like a pretentious idiot lol
Incredible video, I appreciate your integrity in your messaging and I hope ideas like this become the new renaissance of the next generation. We are really ready to move on.
Yeah I definitely hear you on this. It's a strange world out there. I certainly am talking to myself in these videos too, and want to make more art in the real, physical world in the coming months. Thanks for taking the time to drop the support and kind words in here. Know that it matters.
Well done sir! Keep it up knowing the amount of resistance you encounter = the clarity and truth of your message! G in Memphis TN
Thanks onegunnymom - that's so great to wake up and see the support coming in, and that the message is heard like that. This channel thanks you greatly, and good to hear Memphis is represented here.
You say Basquiat understood commerce, he did. He understood the line between his transmitting his personage through a medium, he developed an understanding of the art world and its patronage, which did flatten him. It shaped him. He was accessible. If you were a New Yorker and went to Washington Square park you saw him. And his family. He seemed to release by riding his bicycle around the park. But you'd never know how his connection with the Art World, the institution of wealth was changing him the way patrons and corporations do.
Connecting to patrons, market forces and corporations as an observer can deliver you a full picture of the world. Those who live and those who eat it up and the mechanisms in which they operate. It can give you a unique perspective if you can manage not to apply too much of yourself to what you digested. Basquiat's need to express his reality allowed him that. Patron culture's need to eat it up, ate him up at the same time because of his want for acceptance, maybe even fame.
I would say the same for Prince. I inject him everywhere because he is also his own iconry and commerce. In my mind a model of how to center yourself, and package and set your price, the terms of your distribution, even in the corporate commerce space. Right down to asserting control over your creations, better the manifestations of your self down to setting the terms of creation, packaging, communications, pricing and delivery... and to the point that you control the engagement of your "fans," the people who want to touch, identify with that piece of you to the degree they adopt it as their own.
This is what took Prince down. The external value and control of his work by corporations. The norm of corporate pick me mentality. The underground scavengers and wolves, disrupters and destabilizers. The blood and the labyrinth of distribution. He knew digital could set him free. Early digital betrayed him. The insecure platforms took and slung his works to spectators as drug. It turned fans against him as they robbed him of the value of his work, further enslaving him with every download. Then a hungry army of speculators who wanted pieces of his body, but most importantly his heart, his life, the personage so many of us carry in our brains, his sounds seeded in our lives. Simply continuing this without him, is like crack.
As a prime case in point, Prince was more than self-sufficient, all of his works and needs were made manifest through his concepts and control. Every aspect of his works and commerce conceived and controlled by him. He lived off of his imagination, if not for contract. Omnipresent he extended this to his circles, and cities. His focus was stern business, contracts put him under the gun to deliver, and to meet contractual quota. He embodied and controlled every part of his life . Literally, Paisley Park was his corporate self manifest. It was his musical arsenal and corporate shell and armor. IT was his strategic center, marketeer and merch, studio, clothier, stadium, night club, transportation, industry association. Only thing not tangible was to break through distribution, and he was almost there. Yes, signing a contract was unnecessarily giving himself away. Digital sold him off for a song. Merely, wanting to own his masters because he more than earned them made him a lifetime meal for speculators.
This morning I watched "LIVE: House committee hearing on copyright issues, royalties and inequities for recording artists." We can't be part-time agents of our own livelihoods. We can't give away our art and skills because we inherited an employee mindset. We cant fight for cubicles and backstab for those crumbs. We need to establish markets. We need to be able to perform in our markets; and own our products, services, art. We need to be able to set the value and be compensated directly. Platforms can be established as market places, and that in itself should be open to creation and performance, but we have to be able to drive our creations and services through commerce to distribution and come out compensated, more than fairly, at the value we assign.
Thanks for the insight. This was well written
Commenting for engagement because more creatives need to see this. You’ve given me a lot to think about, thank you
"[social media] wants to say, there's an easy definition of you in this place..."
that insight at the end of part 2, AWESOME.
I am hip to how social media works- with its bells and whistles to keep us hooked on there, but I think in that conversation, many neglect the more simple fact that it's so comfortable, lacks complexity/defines you/other people simply.. translated perfectly to Basquaits experience too. you're awesome.
perfect video to start my day, and relevant to some major decisions i'm making now about next steps in my practice. pretty much heading to wherever i'm most intimidated/uncomfortable at this point.
🎉❤👑
Using whatever gives you the most resistance, as a guide to the direction to head towards - I hear you on this. In terms of some of my own practice, I have this sentence I've been asking myself - Are you trying to avoid the harder thing? It really helps me assess whether i'm taking on projects that are truly the most valuable, or whether I'm moving towards easier paths to validation or something like that. Anyway, I'm really glad this video connected for you, and thanks again for dropping your thoughts, and the kind words - it matters my side.
I am a music producer that releases music 🎵 mostly on my own. I spend countless hours alone trying to get attention on my art while at the same time trying to connect with humans . It is a daunting task and I battle with both trying to be a recluse so I have time to make art and be a part of humanity at the same time. Sometimes I question my life choices and how I’ve chosen to spend my time. Other times I think 🤔 I didn’t even make the choice because there is nothing else I could ever do besides make music 🎵. How can an artists make great art 🖼️ without millions of followers yet find enough inspiration to continue the path even without the validation of success or money. I struggle with this concept often as I am not required to get shows to survive right now. Any tips from other creators is appreciated. ❤
You are not alone in your reclusiveness!
Send out as many beats as possible. Make your work free, put genuine connections over fake online ones by getting respect and you might get paid one day.. don’t make your art a money chase
someone else feels my agony.bro💀💔
I’m only like two years in. I pushed off my dreams for rapping for years. Everything has its time. You have to get to a place where your detached from the results. Like you pay attention because if your tryna to construct yourself as a business and brand you have to but yet don’t let the numbers get to you. I feel the same way. But we have to put ourselves in positions to grind out. Don’t beat yourself up if you fall into procrastination or not feeling like you’re doing enough. I’ve feel into this trap twice in two years. I would say just make a schedule and stay on that. If you feel it’s getting back change order small things. Sometimes you have to change other things around the music. And truly try and stay in tune with yourself. Idk if this helps at out
@@dkkeen904 WISEST OF WORDS SPOKE HERE THANK U!
I really appreciate the connection being made here between Jean-Michel Basquiats work and our ever-evolving, content driven media/tech world. Jaron Laniers prophetic manifesto 'The Serdom of Crowds' and/with 'You are not a gadget' is also a very apropo kepper.
Just like a can of spraypaint: CONTENT UNDER PRESSURE.
RIP SAMO©️
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this is such an important message, forget the success, at its core we need to know that if you're doing it and loving it you're succeeding already
bro you’re hella cool, i really respect the deep thinking and analysis you are sharing with the world. this planet needs people like you to foster conversation and community. thank you boss
Some much needed food for thought. This is one of those things I know I need to think about more but have been struggling to make the conscious choice too.
I think that's what it is for me - it's all so automatic and effortless... but it's not like I'm happy this way. Something being effortless doesn't inherently make it positive.
Thank you for putting it right in front of me, I needed this prompt.
So glad this could connect with your own practice in that way. I definitely wrote this one kind of as a letter to myself too - so that need for awareness to make more conscious decisions around content is something I'm in also. Thanks for taking the time to comment and drop a piece of your thoughts.
hey man, I really appreciate the work that goes into these pieces you create, keep up the incredible work. As an artist myself, I'm always picking up gems watching your videos, i hope that you succeed and thrive always, and In the ways that you envision doing so. Stay awesome!
Appreciate that massively Kamz - the support in the comments matters out here, and yeah just super glad I can offer stuff I find to help the people following along. Cheers
I hope Basquiat's family gets some of the proceeds from his artwork. He was a genius who did not want to fit in the square box that society wanted to squeeze him into❤
I can assure you they do not. Living artists don’t even get anything from the resale of their work.
As far as I know he left a respectable estate of drawing, unfinished art and more which I assume is sold and loaned.
One of your best videos...and Basquiat is one of my favorite artists. The duality of every artists is how to make money while keeping your artistic integrity.
Appreciate that, glad this video is connecting with the artists out here. I'm not going to lie, I didn't know that much about Basquiat before I started this one, but really built a love for his work whilst making it. Thanks for taking the time to drop in and share the love and support - it matters. Pweaace
One things that is really sad is that a lot of his work being gobbled up into capitalistic media, t shirts, tote bags, etc. That his family sold out to that and let his work go and get warped for something like a paycheck.
Thank you so much for creating this video. This video couldn't of come at a better time because of the assignment I did for my online SCOM class. I gave a speech about the effects social media and scrolling impacts how our communication, critical thinking, and creative skills, so this video seems like a reminder that I need to have a better relationship with social media and not allow myself to caught up in the escapism that it provides.
I've watched a couple of your videos and I wanted to say please keep it up, you're definitely expanding peoples' minds more than you know. Thank you again.
Insightful! I am deeply relying on algorithm because it suggests videos like yours to feed my mind. Thank you for the work!
Really digging the content you're putting out there man, so important for everyone to hear.
I feel fortunate that I grew up before the days of the internet and mobile phones, but that's put me so out of touch. You're bringing the best aspects of real life, and technology, and wrapping it up with a nice philosophical bow on top. I hope you're voice reaches the ears and minds of many folk out there, you're doing a great thing.
Thanks for doing what you do. Appreciate ya, take it easy 👍
Cheers Tommy. I appreciate that support and glad these videos are feeling nicely balanced in that way. I feel like I'm kind of in the last generation of people who grew up without a smart phone, and right now, I feel lucky for that. Thanks for taking the time to comment here, and drop in.
@@creativemindsyoutube No problem, have a great weekend
i’ve just got back from New York. The only Basquiat work on public display was on the shop window of Uniclo. Quite remarkable that the only work of his actually hanging on a wall in the city he worked in is in a bankers penthouse
Spotify ad was very well cut in and out didnt feel super intrusive nice job
18:00 who is speaking
David Foster Wallace's commencement speech is life-changing, definitely recommend everyone to read/listen to it
great video as usual!
Yeah I'd second that. Thanks for dropping in and taking the time to drop the kind words too.
The full unedited Wallace interview for German television, where the featured clips are from, is some of the best content on YT. It's more like a discussion between David and the interviewer - but I'm sure you've seen it, just had to mention it if someone reading the comments isn't aware of it yet :D
I love Basquiat. Just found this content watching now.
Man it's amazing how well you're able to express your thoughts and ideas. How long does it take you to write these scripts? Are they all small pieces written down over time that you then bring together? Or do you sit down and get this all out? Because it's super well thought out, and puts into words very accurately how I, and many of my creative friends, feel. The thoughts tend to hang in the back of my mind but with no true conclusion/action to take. So thanks for this. Food for thought that helps us digest! 🙏
Awesome and thought provoking. I needed to hear this because I deleted my social media a few months back and wondered what the next step in online integration might be career-wise. I'd like to be a conscious content creator, and at the very least, avoid hypocrisy.
Basquiat's art is super inspirational for any visual artist... I had a friend who painted like him - it seems to come from a mental state that is both extremely free to express the inner soul, and yet also feels trapped by society. I suppose the same can be said for all artists but some bring that conflict together in a way that can make you feel the heavy reality of that experience just by viewing the work.
Thank you for the book recommendations and great video. I'll screenshot those prompts and bear the questions in mind as I develop better day to day lifestyle and business habits.
Appreciate this comment Treyton. Avoiding hypocrisy is a key bit of language I'm hearing here. It's something that can be a struggle my side no doubt - trying to make thumbnails and titles that make sense but will still travel well and all that - it's definitely a balance that I'm constantly having to find this side. Thanks again for engaging with the content, and power to you on your journey.
I find your videos really valuable they always make me think and keep thinking after I've watched. All the stuff around 14:00 hits hard.
Love the comments here. Authentic thoughts on the topic. Really refreshing
Thank you for your insight and knowledge! You are very well studied and you present the history very well. This is the kind of teaching I wish I had in school about art. Keep up the great work!
This is honestly one for the best videos on art I’ve seen on RUclips You simply summarized how consumerism in art in content has rotted our brains and removed us from what art truly is: subjective. Make what u want, and make it with intention bc there’s an audience for u and that audience can just be yourself
I just caught this comment - so happy this video resonated for you in this way. And yeah, thanks for the support and taking the time to drop the comment - it matters.
A discord of creative minds would be sick !
l was just thinking the same thing! would love to be in a discord server too
I would really like to do this down the line. Thanks for the interest for sure.
THIS IS KILLER!!! You are doing a great job, this is the type of video that will change someones life
Truly Beautiful video, Concise but Heavy Information put Together So Clean. This type of Art is Needed Beyond Measures we could ever Dream About. Keep Going, Please & Stay Strong! Sending Luv♾️
Really glad you enjoyed this one, and know that the kind words and support matter. You right, the info got heavy in this one, happy people came along for the ride. Thanks again for taking the time to comment.
Very interesting point about social media infantilizing adults' perceptions of happiness and success. Keep doing your thing 👍
Love your channel so much, thanks for everything you do!
Appreciate the support and kind words, glad these are resonating with you, and thanks for taking the time to share the comment.
How dependent. Social media is like a cigarette to me now, its the one thing I guarantee everyday. Even over my dreams, I have so much access to everything I want to do and its damn near impossible to focus. Entertainment endless vs being able to study anything you could dream off. I could go on forever man
Really enjoyed this perspective, beautiful video, definitely subscribed.
This was really insightful, thank you
Just found your channel, just subscribed 🙏🏾
This morning I asked my bf to go off short form media like tiktok reels and shorts for a month. The removal of the app from it's spot has really defined the persistent of the urge to get that hit
Thanks for all of this, dude. 👾
I LOVE THIS VIDEO!!!!!!!! Thank you for posting it, IT'S GREAT!!!!
You know I’m a cook, and I really love the art of cooking, I love working in fine dining places and being honest a lot of times people ask me to do a TikTok or ig account to make basics recipes, and make me “famous”. I don’t have anything against content creators of food and whatever actually there’s some of them that I like, but meeting with chefs and people that’s have been going for the long road, French chefs with 20’years old careers, idk man I rather be known in the real world, being remembered by the chefs and cooks are actually understanding what’s happening. Now it’s hard for me in a way to think that to engage with more younger people and sharing my art and thoughts maybe the only way is sharing in social media. I have 9 years cooking in different countries and with really amazing people, those are the guys that I’m proud that they remember me how I remember them. At the end fame and glory or whatever doesn’t make you create more art, I believe that we have the power and the will in all of us that aims for creation! Keep being creative!
"we may admire what he does, but we despise what he is.”
― Wilhelm von Humboldt
It suggests that our admiration for external accomplishments can be overshadowed by disdain for the person's true nature or values. I suspect very few people cared for the person Basquait was. Only really intersted in the economic value of his work and the "cool" association that brings.
Great Video, Really inspiring!
p.s It's pronounced Same-Oh.. as in Same-Old.
Thanks again bro!
Great video. I particularly enjoyed learning more about Basquait.
great content as usual. thank you!
Glad this one resonated with you somehow Des7638. Thanks for taking the time to drop the support - it matters.
Such a great video, thanks for sharing!
We shouldn't blame it solely on internet, we have the ability to change it so we gotta adapt with - It could be as simple as running each morning without a phone disconnected being around nothing but yourself :) find space for you to be and to not always be entertained. I loved it very deep message with gorgeos storytelling hit my soul.
i make and have made work and not shared it anywhere. it changes how i think about what im making and why. there’s power in that somewhere
For some reason I'm beginning to question if my dread of existing is solely attributed to trauma..or could it be THAT and ALSO this stereotype of being, of HUMAN BEING, that's been so heavily perpetuated through media. Like in the act of doing, human being has devolved into a caricature now, that's just how I feel after watching this video. For me expressing said existence through art is just ugh, focused on reception, doing something for something, being worried about getting SOMETHING back, thirsting after that - like I just posted some art yesterday and I'm worried about numbers....FUCKING NUMBERS. Idk if I make any sense, I just feel how I feel.
My exact fucking issue dude oh my God I literally haven't made art for myself in what feels like forfuckingever bc of numbers
its awesome you talk about this
really enjoyed this one
Thanks for taking the time to drop the support Lostboy - glad this one connected.
Great video!
Appreciate that Swerve361, glad it could connect with you.
Great work
Excellent video-thank you.
This is such a great video. Than you!
excellent video, thanks bro
Thank you!
Hey bro - I had to put the speed to 1.50 to get through the video. I am not sure what is up but the many breaks and empty space between the speech made it really hard for me to stay and watch. Nice material otherwise - all good - I recommend some diction exercises / flow discourse research. Just looking out for a bro out there and offered my feedback - I am here for you if you want to touchdown more. Good luck with your projects!
Great video
15 years ago I had a few small victory's in art. all as a result of contact on line. but things change so fast i can not always keep up.
Thank you.
amazing video
Appreciate the support, thanks for taking the time to drop it in.
i was scrolling instead of watching the ads of this video
I'd not looked into Basquiat's life and work before. The racism is just jaw-dropping. Interesting to hear about his interests in art and jazz.
JMB loved making art and being an artist, but the fame and the money must have led him to self-loathing because he allowed himself to be pimped out by the dealers, critics and gallery owners.
Very very cool thank you
heroin is a pure example of capitalism. capitalism destroys artists. andy warhol saw this but was sort of autistically dissociated from it. andy warhol saw basquiat destroying himself with heroin but was dissociated. he did not know how to be a mentor. andy warhol collaborated with basquiat. those collaborative works are really moving. i take the SAMO period quite seriously. he writes short poems, very reflective and thought and emotion stimulating. to me SAMO was the obvious precursor to Banksy. I don't know much about art, but I can see sensitivity, passion, pain, expression, intelligence, energy. Also I wish DFW and Mark Fisher had stuck around for Byung-Chul Han. Han would have impressed DFW particularly I think. Maybe would have given him some hope.
Independence rather than individualism. Absolute individualism would cause us as humans to never learn from each other nor collaborate and evolve collectively.
I did a lot of research on different artists. They all got out of life what they wanted. I never liked their private lives. I do enjoy the art they left behind. Their private lives was nobody's business.
18:00 he’s COOKING.
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hi!! have you considered making a discord of some kind for likeminded creators like us to collaborate??
the best placed person to tell you about Basquiat and Warhol is Madonna. She was in and on the scene at that time and was very close to them.
Damnn I wish DFW was alive for this era holy shit!
ikr, hope we get one more Pynchon...The Pale King is so great btw
I’ve been watching your videos for a while now, and always really enjoy them, they give me little boosts every time. I wanted to see if you’d like to join my journal experiment I’m doing to help me with my goals?
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Heroine is such a great drug for making art. When I was an addict I was prolific! I made my best, most confident art when I was a junkie. I’m clean now and have been for 15 years but I’ll never paint and create like I did when I had that. It’s amazing what that drug does for art.
Jesus 😮 happy you’re clean now though!
Can you explain why?
@@BlenderheadXexcessive amounts of dopamine in a short period of time maybe?
That’s all in your head bro. Heroine needed YOU not Vice versa. Your best art hasn’t been made yet
You just gotta learn how to play in creativity not on h, ya mein.. to art on the street ls super freeing.. and can help break out of normal art.. so dont knock graff .. yall.. be free
I don’t think calling him a graffiti artist is a disservice. It may be coming from a racist perspective but graffiti is a beautiful art form.
Im supposed to get over racism, but it keeps coming up. Interesting
Same-oh like same old 💩
literally brave new world (1932)
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And then Jay-Z stole his hairstyle 😂
I don’t think that “primal” was racism ._. I think it referred to the raw emotions and tribal art inspiration
this was his experience & what he spoke on.. who are you to say it wasnt so
I don’t understand the tone towards graffiti or starting as a graffiti artist, it’s not a lie, he did graffiti and ran around with his friends and he had a tag and he evolved. I don’t understand the whole him being in graffiti was a lie statement ?
see the soup know the soup don't become the
pretty sure its pronounced say - moe. like when you ask someone hows it going and they say 'oh you know same ol' ___
I don't get it. He copied obscure, ancient symbols from a book like a collage. His paintings never seem to be included in the recognized masterpieces when I search. It can't be just racism
That’s because it isn’t just racism, but like many things it does play a role.
Great video! However SAMO as in SAY MO , for same old shit
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This who jay-z tryna be like
bc if you did why would you make a youtube video about it.. thats like me shooting heroin and then babbling for 20 min.. "what basquiat taught me about being sober"
Could Bassquiat draw? Did he ever practice drawing literal things from observation? Did he know the rules before he broke them or was he just painting like my toddler does? Sincerely asking.
Portraiture and figurative drawing started dying out as forms of artistic expression with the advent of photography. Painting became expressionist as European artists leaned towards African sculpture for inspiration. Art also became conceptual as seen in the works of Salvador Dali and Marcel Duchamp. My point is that the mastery of drawing as a qualifying skill for a fine artist pre-dated the invention of photography. Obviously, life and figurative drawing did remain important in the academic setting, but not in the world of dealers and art galleries which is the commercial industry of art.
JMB’s paintings and drawings were coded for the appreciation of people who love imagery, social commentary and history. His works are mostly about the history of black people in America whose ancestry is African.
Appreciating modern art is a bit like appreciating the Jazz form called Be-bop. To some Miles Davis was just noise while to the cognoscenti he was a musical genius.
Honest question, have you been in an art gallery, sold a painting? I don't think your definition of what drawing is matters very much, much like a toddlers to an adult.
Sincerely, bye 👋 go away
Look how you demand he fit into the small box of what YOU think an artist is 😂 how pathetic
No it’s always been abstract
Not mentioning the structural roots of the issues made your points lacking. Like Basquiat you have problems with structures but do not want to name them. Capitalism was not mentioned once. It is the reason social media is designed to be addictive and reactionary. It is why those that own most of the wealth do not want marginalized voices in art. One of the Problems with Basquiat is that he wanted to be apart of the capitalist class making his critiques of racism fall flat since he is not going to the root. Also the points on coddling fall really close to fascistic clichés of: "Men are weak now. We need strong violent men". The commericial you sited is an ad that was selling the idea of the "best" possible outcome under capitalism: being a passive consumer. Social media does not succeed at that. Most rely on inflamatory or bigoted content like youtube. 10000s of reactionary accounts that spew a content mill of hate filled garbage. A lot are addicted to those and develop para social groups around attacking marginalized groups. Having people be hateful is better then them being passive for big business. It gives those in power useful people to deflect structural issues of capitalism onto the "other" existing.
Dude what
He was describing capitalism lol, he just didn't say the word. This allows you to find the point, instead of feeding it to you. You know, a lot like said artists work...
Listen I grew up in south africa you don't have a clue little western mind 😂😂😂😂 stop it leave him alone black power
come brutally criticize my chill beats pls
apparently you didnt learn a damn thing homie
Great video