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Writer, director, producer and screenplay consultant. This is a place where I post random stuff and things I will regret later. Sometimes I post videos I've worked on or songs that I've created with my magic Casio® in my secret unicorn furnace.

Aug 4
Man.  So glad that I’m neither great nor popular.  I have all that fucking white space to myself!!! bettylies: 3rdmartini: texburgher: Creative Output Nothing new here. Vermeer was all but unknown for 200 years, and Van Gogh: ignored to death. By comparison, Norman Rockwell and Thomas Kinkade became household names- each early in his life. The history of the arts abounds with such examples. (Who here watches Jenny Saville, Tai-Shan Schierenberg, Ann Gale, David Kassan?) Not to say there aren’t exceptions - there are, but they live in that sliver of overlap. We like to think of social media as efficiently exposing previously or otherwise hidden talent, but I think something quite opposite is going on. Thanks to social media, the circle on the right seems to grow exponentially year-over-year, while the circle on the left, at best, resists shrinking. Internet! I don’t think there’s a single thing about this that I can disagree with. This makes me feel much better about myself.

Man.  So glad that I’m neither great nor popular.  I have all that fucking white space to myself!!!

bettylies:

3rdmartini:

texburgher:

Creative Output

Nothing new here. Vermeer was all but unknown for 200 years, and Van Gogh: ignored to death. By comparison, Norman Rockwell and Thomas Kinkade became household names- each early in his life. The history of the arts abounds with such examples. (Who here watches Jenny Saville, Tai-Shan Schierenberg, Ann Gale, David Kassan?) Not to say there aren’t exceptions - there are, but they live in that sliver of overlap.

We like to think of social media as efficiently exposing previously or otherwise hidden talent, but I think something quite opposite is going on. Thanks to social media, the circle on the right seems to grow exponentially year-over-year, while the circle on the left, at best, resists shrinking.

Internet!

I don’t think there’s a single thing about this that I can disagree with.

This makes me feel much better about myself.
Posted at 9:43 PM 72 notes
Source: texburgher

  1. marbleface reblogged this from jespers
  2. matthewballen reblogged this from bettylies and added:
    Man. So glad that I’m neither great nor popular. I have all that fucking white space to myself!!!
  3. rafail-e reblogged this from levaduraa
  4. williamdawson reblogged this from texburgher and added:
    you can expand this beyond just creative output...include politicians.
  5. burwell reblogged this from texburgher and added:
    good lord. so i took a double dose of adderall, and just wrote a lot. there’s no way i’m editing all of this all at...
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  7. vegkat reblogged this from sblaufuss and added:
    Don’t even get me started on Thomas Kinkade.
  8. shadesofm reblogged this from bettylies and added:
    I’ve always been a small circle kind of person. This explains it!(not that *I’m* great, just that I prefer the thoughts...
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  10. bettylies reblogged this from 3rdmartini and added:
    This makes me feel much better about myself.