Two real quick back to back posts. The first about PressPausePlay.
If you get a chance to watch, please do. Don't just let it run in the background while you do email. Pay attention. Thoughts will be provoked. If Cole runs it at the Carnegie Cinema, go see it. If they run it in conjunction with the tailgate, see it there, too. Rather than add to the noise with my opinions, here are a few quotes that I was able to take away:
"…a young Hitchcock, a young Scorcese, they wouldn't make it in this business. Slap up their early stuff on facebook, on youtube, it would get lost- it would get lost in the ocean of garbage."-Andrew Keen, author. "People said, well how do you make any money doing that? and I said well first of all I wasn't trying to make money, I was trying to make a point. And I did make a point. Ideas that spread, win. …The lesson is, 'this changes everything. The industry is dead.' "
-Seth Godin, author, entrepreneur. "The old production systems brought certain value to the process... because these means were so expensive, very few artists could be brought through them."
-David Weinberger, author, technologist. "Used to be, you didn't become an artist to be rich, you became an artist because you had an idea to share, because you had an emotion to share, and that's where we're heading again. We're gonna see more people do more art in more ways than ever before."
-Seth Godin, author, entrepreneur. "Now I can make these tracks in my bedroom as if I'd spent a whole month in an expensive studio; I can just be doing it here. but it's changed everything; that now becomes irrelevant. Now that we can all do that, it's moved things along."
-Bill Drummond, artist, producer. "We may be on the verge of a new Dark Age in cultural terms."
-Andrew Keen, author. "They come to the school having made a lot of movies themselves where they did everything- they directed, they shot, they edited, they may have written the music, they may have acted in it. So they could keep their vision up in here- and not have to explain it, not have to describe it in lots of ways to collaborate. At the core of what we teach is how to understand what your story is to the degree... so you can describe that to other people so you can help them to join in in your story telling."
-Norman Hollyn, professor, USC. "Art and culture potentially might succumb to that same principle, where, if everybody is a musician, and everybody's making mediocre music, eventually, the world is just covered with mediocrity. And people start to become comfortable with mediocrity."
-Moby, not the whale. "Our students need to be comfortable with the pace at which things change. We can't teach today's technology because in five years that will be gone. We need to be able to teach them How to Tell Effective Stories, Using Images, and to be comfortable with how the technology is changing every single year."
-Norman Hollyn, professor, USC. " I think that in 20 or 30 or 50 years we're going to look back at now with a wistful nostalgia… …the way we look back at Vaudeville, the way we look back at any sort of antiquated outdated technology, is, like, it was clunky, it was naive, and it had its own charm, but we've moved on."
-Moby, not the whale.
