Is no problem, and frankly if posting anon is how to to stir up enough discussion on this topic, then is all good.
Here is an idea I'm throwing back at you:
This IS fun, for me. I analyze the SHIT out of my media and my source, and I get delighted by quality. By engaging my brain, I get a source of pleasure that is additional to even the visceral pleasure of a quality work.
Personally, I don't believe in high art. Art is art is art. Is Warhol art? He's completely derivative, with his own twist. Same for Woody Allen. Is Sin City art? Some say yes, some no; it's a complete derivation of a comic derivation of film noir which is a derivation of realism. Is 5th Element art, as opposed to Blade Runner? Both are derivations of cyberpunk, which is just pop art, not high art omg.
The argument can go around and around; but I'm going off on a tangent...
I know when I go off analyzing these things, it's from a sense of fun; it is fun to me to improve my skill in vidding. Call me a perfectionist or whatever, but it *is* fun. And it's fun to me to bring to bear analytic abilities I've gained elsewhere to better understand why things work, because it's fun, to me, to understand things.
Sure, a person can 'only' work in a shop; but why can't she do the best job she possibly can?
I'm sorry if it seems to you that we are being aloof and pretentious; I'm not sure how to change this, because all discussion is welcome, and I don't know if it's my phrasing or...what. I am not *trying* to be aloof, but if I don't know what it is I'm doing that might make me *seem* aloof, how can I ever change?
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Here is an idea I'm throwing back at you:
This IS fun, for me. I analyze the SHIT out of my media and my source, and I get delighted by quality. By engaging my brain, I get a source of pleasure that is additional to even the visceral pleasure of a quality work.
Personally, I don't believe in high art. Art is art is art. Is Warhol art? He's completely derivative, with his own twist. Same for Woody Allen. Is Sin City art? Some say yes, some no; it's a complete derivation of a comic derivation of film noir which is a derivation of realism. Is 5th Element art, as opposed to Blade Runner? Both are derivations of cyberpunk, which is just pop art, not high art omg.
The argument can go around and around; but I'm going off on a tangent...
I know when I go off analyzing these things, it's from a sense of fun; it is fun to me to improve my skill in vidding. Call me a perfectionist or whatever, but it *is* fun. And it's fun to me to bring to bear analytic abilities I've gained elsewhere to better understand why things work, because it's fun, to me, to understand things.
Sure, a person can 'only' work in a shop; but why can't she do the best job she possibly can?
I'm sorry if it seems to you that we are being aloof and pretentious; I'm not sure how to change this, because all discussion is welcome, and I don't know if it's my phrasing or...what. I am not *trying* to be aloof, but if I don't know what it is I'm doing that might make me *seem* aloof, how can I ever change?