I remember reading a science fiction short story, I think, a novel where you could put on glasses and read an entire planet. I think to be an artist is to somehow gradually put these glasses on and once you have that Vision it's impossible to unsee it. Where there are objects like apples or paintings or buildings or people, you see primordial soup and electric storms, and some abysses and heavens.
Holiday gift guide:
Make your loved ones an installation. Food installation, spell their name with cucumbers and bananas. Spell their name with clothes, make art piles in the hallway. Let your kids and your spouse draw on the walls, convert your kitchen cabinets to library and art closets, curiosity cabinets and mystery storage.
Road to New Minimalism:
The ultimate goal is to build a space-faring creative civilization.
We have to be very careful with what we create, because I believe we're mini-Gods, and this is why I think that handbags and cutting up diamonds are not really our job anymore. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love fashion, I love people who are nicely, beautifully dressed, but I can't justify in my mind digging up crystals from the ground, cutting them up and decorating ourselves with them, and conditioning young people to also be into cut up crystals, they do not need body decoration to feel self-worth. A well-disciplined body is beautiful, but diamonds are ugly. Handbags are even more trashes than actual garbage, and even less useful. Don't get me started on weddings, bonding ceremonies are fine, I just can't think of a reason why so much energy is expended to create one-of-a-kind throw away objects.
Whenever I look at bonding ceremonies and all kinds of other activities I always use first principles and try to look objectively at the activity and reason.
We need to really carefully rethink our values as a civilization. It seems to me that the media promotes the values that promote the agenda of their advertisers, of course.
The media never promotes what is valuable to humankind, science, learning, well-being of the body and mind, creative and forward thinking.
We are virtually mind slaves of the advertising industry, which perpetually produces ever more crap for us to desire.
I am actively trying to unsee most of the stuff that is on the internet.
Google was something useful and beautiful. Now I have to hunt for technology to block me from seeing all the ads. I have several ad-blocking add-ons on my browsers, otherwise, I cannot stand looking at anything on youtube or websites. I refuse to look at ads, and frankly, I'll boycott anything that I see advertised on anything. If I am not buying it already - I don’t need it, period.
I have resorted to Android as I cannot find anything reasonable to block ads with on an iPhone, although the iPhone takes beautiful pictures. My mind’s space is just too valuable.
I gave up television for the same reason. I can’t stand looking at ads, cannot imagine something less useful to our civilization, and refuse to accept the digital landscape as it is evolving into an adscape today.
I believe one day artists will spin neutron stars and draw in gas clouds.
Video games are very very successful because they combine art and technology, computing and creativity.
I just realized that paintings with text were the first memes.
Art offers a profound experience that just can't be compared to anything else. Art is not trivial, it is profound.
I spent my entire life sharpening my ability to see, all my realizations about the material world have come from placing intense gaze on things.
Having just binged on Dune, I thought we are all Pre-born through reading.
Art is basically like tasting melange and feeding on melange every day. I was also born pre-spiced, with blue eyes.
I also cannot stand pumpkins and can live without seeing one for the rest of my life. I think they are pretty brutal visually, can’t someone just think of something else?