IsaiahF
Dreamer
Yeah, that's a good point - I tend to read only those I have a really really strong sense I'll love, so maybe I need to read some more average books But also, just reading out of the genre I most want to write in (fantasy), is also helpful - it's not so close to what I'm writing to bring up fears of being impacted by it, but it's also going somewhere in my unconscious store of patterns to draw on. I'm a firm believer in the notion of attracting ideas and story-wholes based on the kinds of things we actively pursue in research and in our interests. I should probably write some kind of post on that at some point cuz there's a bit of nuance and depth I'd like to get into it.
Agreed - as you say it's clear as anything these days that artists need to be travelling down lesser known roads. People say that originality is impossible; that everything's a repetition - and that's true in a really abstract structural sense, but in terms of 'atmospheric qualities' and 'ideas' it just doesn't make any sense. Einstein said once that we lack the imagination for reality, and I always thought that captured the fervent fertility of the collective unconscious best. Unfortunately this is precisely what most people struggle to sense, locked as they are in the formulaic grip of the past. Hence the need for artists.
I agree with the diagnosis, but not sure about the prediction - I think the studio-model process of making movies are strangling them to death, but I also think there'll always be artists (writers, directors, editors, cinematographers, etc) who feel specifically called to create movies. But I do think there'll be some big changes coming - I heard Ben Affleck has set up a new studio that's supposed to be run by artists, for artists, so maybe that's symptomatic of a new wave coming. One can certainly hope!
Agreed - as you say it's clear as anything these days that artists need to be travelling down lesser known roads. People say that originality is impossible; that everything's a repetition - and that's true in a really abstract structural sense, but in terms of 'atmospheric qualities' and 'ideas' it just doesn't make any sense. Einstein said once that we lack the imagination for reality, and I always thought that captured the fervent fertility of the collective unconscious best. Unfortunately this is precisely what most people struggle to sense, locked as they are in the formulaic grip of the past. Hence the need for artists.
I agree with the diagnosis, but not sure about the prediction - I think the studio-model process of making movies are strangling them to death, but I also think there'll always be artists (writers, directors, editors, cinematographers, etc) who feel specifically called to create movies. But I do think there'll be some big changes coming - I heard Ben Affleck has set up a new studio that's supposed to be run by artists, for artists, so maybe that's symptomatic of a new wave coming. One can certainly hope!