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HOW TO AUGMENT YOUR MEANS OF CREATIVE EXPRESSION.

Dear friends,

A thought:

We are artists. And perhaps in order for us to grow and become stronger artists, we must add our means for creative expression and creative outpression?


1. Make your own music

SENECA v7 – 11:25:21, 11.08 AM

Make your own music. Just use GarageBand on your laptop, and make iMovie slideshows (each photo only less than a second, for me is .5 seconds).

Why make music? Nietzsche has a nice quote:

Life without music would be a mistake.

This means:

There must be something very deep about music, and us as humans.

For example even looking at baby Seneca, he already at 9 months old is starting to bounce along to music and beats.

2. Full stack artist

What does it mean to become a ‘full stack’ artist? Simple —

Do it all.

Draw, paint, make abstracts, use your iPad or iPhone and digital tools (or analogue). Analogue is not superior to digital, it is just less convenient.

Make calligraphy, make photos, make videos– make it all.

This is an epiphany I had:

The reason I like monochrome photography so much is that it is like black and white calligraphy!

3. Expand your artistic ambitions

I say:

Rather than expand your ambition to make more money, perhaps expand your ambition to become a more epic artist.

A stoic approach — no matter how skilled you are in photography or art, whether you become famous, rich or renowned is out of your control. What can you control?

The hustle and ambition you put into augmenting your creative and artistic outputs.

If you think about it, art is just another form of communication. Why did I get into poetry? I felt that ‘normal prose’ could no longer contain my thoughts, or what I wanted to communicate and express. This is also the benefit of knowing a second language– there are certain words which render in a different language/culture which doesn’t work well in (American) English.

The more multi-variegated you can make your photography and art, the better.

4. Art is the proper metaphysical task of life (Richard Wagner)

Once you become a crypto billionaire … then what?

Or when you think about the film ‘Free Guy’, once you can do anything you wanna do … then what do you want to do?

Make art.

ERIC


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