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This is hard to explain because it requires the understanding of what is was like for me to make several feature films for next to no money with a crew of friends who were being paid nothing, but it has become important to me to sometimes create work devoid of any financial consideration. I get asked to make music videos every so often and have not been paid for one in over four years. Which is fine. Doing something with the understanding that it is not a financial transaction, and thus ought to be categorized as “for the art” forces me to remind myself why I even ostensibly enjoy creating anything in the first place, which is increasingly easy to lose sight of considering the rotten and broken state of the industry in which I have chosen to work.
Apr 26, 2022

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Describing it as doing it for "no reason" is false I think. The reason is art, enjoyment, love, maybe because it keeps your mind or hands busy? There is a reason. Its just not money.
Jan 25, 2024
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What else are you going to do? Might as well make something.
Jan 25, 2024
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i make casettes for bands afor just the material costs because it's fun and I enjoy the process.
Jan 25, 2024
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as a terrified near-graduate of film school this gave me a boost. "content" is such an ugly force in the world. seconding one user below's volunteer to PA!!
Jan 25, 2024
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i just love to make things i want to help people make and actualize things
Jan 25, 2024
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I ship this so hard. Decouple your joy from capitalism!
Jan 25, 2024
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very important, looking at every opportunity through this lens, if anyone needs me to hop in on something cool, let me know
Jan 25, 2024
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Needed this rec tonight thank u✨
Jan 25, 2024
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Let me PA Alex !
Jan 25, 2024
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Very important notion for keeping your spirit alive. This is more urgent message than recommendation in my view 💕
Jan 25, 2024
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This is important to my mental wellbeing
Jan 24, 2024

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This isn’t to say earning money is bad. It’s very good. I’ve built a career around earning in a lot of different ways. But for me, the ever present capital layer buried in how we package and put ourselves out online, well - kind of ruined why I enjoyed doing it in the first place. I never wanted a full time job, I never wanted to be owned by anyone. Something about having a patreon (it was small, but large enough that I felt, well, owned) was getting in the way of me enjoying the act of making shit. It’s beautiful that online stuff can generate life sustaining income. I just think, we should be making stuff more freely, or just - without the impulse to constantly package and sell ourselves to an audience. It’s gross, and it’s bad for the art. Demonetize yourself once n' a while, play games, and be wrong and upset people more. There's nothing to lose when there's nothing to lose!
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I feel like there’s such pressure for creatives of all types to “make a name for themselves”, constantly be promoting and using all the right hashtags. Who cares? What if you just wanna make paintings for fun without monetary gain or fame in mind? What if you wanna make youtube videos just as a personal diary instead of becoming a “content creator” or “influencer”? What if you just enjoy making logos instead of wanting to be a career freelance designer who spends every waking moment keeping up to date on design trends? Maybe your goal is to make money and become popular for your art, and that’s great, go for it! But I think it’s just as valid to enjoy art for arts sake, and not feel a need to worry about posting it consistently and appeasing your followers.
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It can feel as alienating and heartbreaking to make anything right now. The attempt is what matters. I’ve been trying to make art for a while and feel gratification in doing it but I think that’s the problem isn’t it? We force it and when it doesn’t come out in the way we want it to it feels like we shouldn’t even try. By the nature of you making it’s important, and your art is needed rlight now- even though it doesn’t feel like its being witnessed. You are a witness to it
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