@bijikedelai
Thank you so much, man. I really needed this. I've been working in the creative industry for about 6-7 years now. The constant demand to stay creative and keep up with current trends is starting to take a toll on me these days. The perpetual anxiety of imposter syndrome also does not help. I really appreciate these kinds of videos. Thank you.
@drolleriesdrolleries
Thank you, Lewis. Your deliberate speaking to this chaos has been cathartic. You're an inspiration, and I'm grateful for your mind and your efforts. Love you, bud.
@AFilmaciones
Do not make my mistake. My plan was "I'll make a lot of money first and then I'll make art." Now my youth is gone and I barely have time to watch this. The time for art never came... and my time on earth is vanishing.
@Rimekey
Thats a deep talk man. Feeling you on so many levels. You can be proud of yourself. Wish you and your family all the best! Please keep up the good work!
@itchyrodent32
Thanks!
@fallnraf
I wanted to stop by and thank you for your amazing insights into this worrying matter. I appreciate it and appreciate you. It affects me, as a musician, to navigate this creative catastrophe that we have in front of us. Although there is no apparent solution, I command you for bringing this up to conversation. What works for me, as simple as it may sound, is to create despite all of this. I've come to find out (through my own experience) that there are those that go beyond the surface level. There are people that will watch this video and relate to the feelings of uncertainty (specially as a creative) produced from this modern insanity. Please continue being who you are and never stop appreciating art for what it really is. I think I speak for a lot of people when I say that you are very appreciated.
@ME-gs6yn
This channel feels like a life raft amongst the waves.
@Shanewayne9
For however long ive been subscribed to witnessing the new chapter of your channel to now. Ive appreciated the vast types of art shown from your channel and such opportunity given me wider eyes to what is out there. Which is much appreciated and has lifted myself up many a time
@porteauloin
Loved this video so much ! Please do not stop to do what you do. It is so refreshing and rare online.
@prakharagnihotri1447
The irony of our lives. The world full of fake life online is strangulating while a video essay titled 'everything is dying' actually gives you hope to live. Thank you cinema cartography. The spirit of your work helps me recenter my moral compass from time to time.
@johndavidlevy7
I have no words for how much I am looking forward to the art you both create. The past two years I've been making things from a place of homelessness and this channel, this place has been a sanctuary and a place to listen and see kindred spirits remind me I am not alone and perhaps even not mad. And I am truly grateful for that. For all of it. For this. For what is next. Thank you.
@RichieDigs
I've been a vinyl DJ for 30 years now. I've spent most of that time ignoring people that tell me "how it should be done" or "this is what you should play". I'm not an artist, but integrity comes first. Even if that means never being popular or relevant. I'll keep taking my opening slot and let the headliners be whatever they are.
@JustaUser17247
I believe this is one of the most important videos you have made. All of this needs to be said and kudos to you. This example of integity is exactly what the world and films need. I believe that there are many more people who think like this than we may think. I believe all of these ideas are truly engrained deep within every one of us, behind the personas which are so difficult to shed, but I believe they are there. And the more we share our true ideas, the more I believe people may speak up about theirs. I also believe collectively we have more power than we may have been led to believe. It's just a thing of being able to shed the modern personas we have created for ourselves, this way we'll be able to communicate truly as human beings.
@JoeLaRocca
The pillars are crumbling mate, but I teach film studies and film production at Boston College. I use your videos all the time. You have made a difference and have helped many people learn. I think you are on the right path. Keep up the good work, can't wait to see what you do next.
@johnmsailors
Watched the entire video and I agree with everything you said! I just sent this to a lot of people that I think will give it a chance. Always speak out even when you think nobody is listening!
@recipesforthoughtcrime
this is the best thing i have ever seen on this platform. thank you, thank you very much
@Major42
Wow this is so good! You have just opened up and show that you can be brave. You are a real person. A real one.
@teawhydee
I wish I could express how much this resonates with me
@minktronics
Struggling to decide how I feel about this sentiment. On the one hand, I thoroughly agree with the analysis of the modern evolution of culture - particularly online - which is fundamentally obsessed with social placement and by nature incredibly reluctant or unable to introspect; to create or study in a more honest and pure context.
On the other hand, the adherence to the "old guard" of cultural analysis and sentimentality around the manner in which culture used to be created and 'consumed' is a little off-putting. Culture and its produce doesn't exist in a vacuum, nor is it designed to be scrutinised and either upheld as 'art' or discarded. Culture is a living, breathing creature that summates the collective and individual experiences of countless individuals and groups. Whilst its course can be manipulated somewhat, as a form of language it can only evolve naturally. The value of its produce is inherent to the consumer; this can be waylaid and misguided by an exploitative ecosystem of consumption and discourse, true, but ultimately one's own lived experience and its interplay with a cultural product is the only true metric of artistic merit. Not theory, old or new, nor a nostalgic idea about past 'art' and its surrounding context that we use as a comparative guide. To adhere to these as a way of determining artistic 'truth' or 'purity' is to deprive culture of its spontaneity and its consumers the freedom to understand, bond with, and produce based on their own, highly personal experience. The reference of antiquity, nor Dante, Bosch, Chasseur and Michaelangelo "in your mind" are, whether you like it or not, unrelated to the manner in which the reality of modern culture is formed and lived within.
There is also an aspect of cultural colonialism that seeps somewhat through the gaps of such adherence to a mythical 'golden era' of culture and it's art; an era who's determinism of value and merit was held in the hands of a white, mainly male, bourgeoise. To form the (unfortunate) non-sequitur between the 'true' or 'pure' and the 'superficial' or 'vacuous' ("THEY" flock in droves and proclaim it as a triumph) Bjork / Beethoven versus Beyonce... deeply reflects on the institutional othering of marginalised communities that haven't been 'educated' on the 'truth' of art and the culture that creates it. But who determines which art is the measuring post of, as you put it, the "transcendental beauty of humanity"? Who determines the methodology and intuit by which we gauge an understanding this vague concept that you portray as a singular truth? Who decides and maintains that this is understanding resultant of an "intrinsic knowledge of antiquity"? It's obvious; institutions; white, wealthy, deeply conservative; who create a framework by which we view culture and its media. This is founded on principles of exclusivity and incompatibility with the "THEY" you refer to; who flock in droves to 'swill'; who are 'unmotivated to educate themselves'; who are 'unconcerned with the past'. Your hyper fixation on a formalistic understanding of aesthetics misses the forest for the trees; in forgetting that perceived validity and significance within culture is a product of constructs of class and millennia of its weaponisation against the 'other', you unwittingly contribute to said othering.
Culture is not "dying". There are many issues with the way it is consumed and presented, true, but do not mistake the past and its authority as a truth that we are sacrilegiously desecrating. I would argue there is more beautiful, true and accessible art being created now than there ever has been. It is up to you to adhere to a principle of institutional cultural exclusivity or to engage with and truly enjoy the produce of the world we really live in; not a manufactured, formal past.
@TheHouseofTabula