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- Interests: Music, Art, Poetry, Piano, Video Production, Movies, Love
- Favourite movie: Garden State, Science of Sleep, Almost Famous, Legend of 1900, Beatles: The Yellow Submarine
- Favourite band or musician: Nick Drake
- Favourite genre of music: Folk/Rock and Roll/Indie/Electro/Classical
- Favourite artist: James Klein/Christopher Koelle/Michel Gondry/Brandon Morgan/J. M. W. Turner
- Favourite poet or writer: Mark Nicks/James Klein/David Wright/Bob Dylan/Sufjan Stevens/Colin Meloy/Ben Gibbard
- Favourite style of art: Music.
- Operating System: Mac Os
- MP3 player of choice: iPod
- Shell of choice: Turtle
- Wallpaper of choice: Science of Sleep's Disasterology
- Skin of choice: Could I wear you like coat?
- Tools of the Trade: Pencil, Mac, Canon, Keyboard, Sony Video Camera, Piano, Guitar, Charcoal, Sharpie, Paint, Ink
- Email: willfullynaive@yahoo.com
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When you have lost sight of the path, when you have become lost in life,
seek information. Seek,
or you will not be granted what it is you are looking for.
... Consequently do not ask me, for I pride myself in knowing nothing at all.
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"If songs were lines in a conversation
the situation would be fine" ~Nick Drake
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"If songs were lines in a conversation
the situation would be fine" ~Nick Drake
On an unrelated note, I always feel a little awkward when I don't like one of the popular/celebrated deviantart photographers. But really, I think half or more of the trends on this site are utter crap, and in those popular genres the same lame, overwrought, ridiculous themes get trotted out by every hot photographer. But then I find someone who is guilty of this sort of melodrama, but is not just pretty good at it, but maybe the best. In his gallery every shot is perfectly lit and post processed nicely and have wonderful compositions and razer focus (but that's not actually hard at all considering they seem to all be shot at something ridiculous like f/14). And yet it's all hyper-real and utterly false, emotion for the sake of it and not for any real sense of it. No understanding, just shouting. And while it's novel for about 1 page and a half of gallery space, when the same shots and style get retread for 35 pages it gets old fast. Why would you shoot what is essentially the same exact photograph, interchange model, interchange mood: happy/sad/fearful/angry/violent/suicidal and insert splashy visual effect and/or fluids, the same shot, thousands upon thousands of times over.
I won't name any names, but I found 11 photos I really really liked out of 899 in the gallery. Those 11 you can find in my favorites. And if you find the source, I think the worst excesses are on pages 3&7, but there are plenty on every page.
Tell me what you think. Does it rub you the wrong way as much as me, or am I really the only one who thinks some (much) of it might be rubbish?
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I don't think it rubs me quite the same way it does you, but honestly, I don't spend a lot of time looking through the photographers who are popular on DeviantArt (maybe I should?). I definitely see what you mean about rehashing the same tired content and style over and over again.
There's a lot of crap on DeviantArt. Considering that the majority of people that frequent it have very little actual artistic sensibility, it's not surprising.
Oh man... the 4 AM hasn't let go of me... My body doesn't like that I stayed up all night.
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"You laugh because I'm different. I laugh because you're all the same."
On another, semi-related thought, I noticed an interesting line of thought woven through the opinions of the authors and professional artists featured in the books I've been reading. Almost all of them, at some point, speak of the danger of "overworking" a painting. They claim that an artist must learn the point at which to stop adding detail so the painting does not loose, in essence, its soul. (Which is derived from the intentions and methods of the individual painter.) Well hmm I've been distracted since I wrote that last sentence, so ta ta for now!
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Oh, I totally see what those painters are saying about overworking an image. I think that, in part, is why I'm experimenting with minimalism. It's kind the aspect of not overworking the painting put to an extreme. What is necessary to express a figure, an idea, a form? In a way, it's a very poetic form of art. Compacting your means to express the maximum amount using the fewest resources. We'll see how that pans out for me. Have you been able to do any actual painting?
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"If songs were lines in a conversation
the situation would be fine" ~Nick Drake
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