Comments on: Oh, you’re back? I didn’t even notice you were gone… http://www.artisticfailure.com/2008/02/18/oh-youre-back-i-didnt-even-notice-you-were-gone/ Where hope springs eternal in the eye of the artist. Fri, 18 May 2012 15:15:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Cory Huff http://www.artisticfailure.com/2008/02/18/oh-youre-back-i-didnt-even-notice-you-were-gone/#comment-714 Cory Huff Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:18:47 +0000 http://www.artisticfailure.com/2008/02/18/oh-youre-back-i-didnt-even-notice-you-were-gone/#comment-714 So you mean to say that if it comes out of Hollywood, then it's automatically inferior? The only movies that are "art" are made by local film makers with no budget who use their home video cameras to make the film? This kind of sweeping generalization does good to no one. If you're going to blog about artistic failure, it would be more interesting to talk about what specific incidents you see as causing failure, or how the system is set up to make artists fail. As an actor, I can certainly see that the Hollywood budgets are such that it's very difficult to take risks because the producers might lose their shirts financially, and that makes for some artistically stunted work. Saying it that way is much different than calling them all "workaday hacks." So you mean to say that if it comes out of Hollywood, then it’s automatically inferior? The only movies that are “art” are made by local film makers with no budget who use their home video cameras to make the film?

This kind of sweeping generalization does good to no one. If you’re going to blog about artistic failure, it would be more interesting to talk about what specific incidents you see as causing failure, or how the system is set up to make artists fail.

As an actor, I can certainly see that the Hollywood budgets are such that it’s very difficult to take risks because the producers might lose their shirts financially, and that makes for some artistically stunted work. Saying it that way is much different than calling them all “workaday hacks.”

]]> By: admin http://www.artisticfailure.com/2008/02/18/oh-youre-back-i-didnt-even-notice-you-were-gone/#comment-684 admin Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:56:26 +0000 http://www.artisticfailure.com/2008/02/18/oh-youre-back-i-didnt-even-notice-you-were-gone/#comment-684 Yeah, I admit that was a little ranty. Ok, maybe a lot ranty... And perhaps a bit more sloppily written than usual (it was getting late). But this <i>is</i> a blog that focuses on art and artists (as opposed to the Hollywood entertainment industry) and what dooms art and artists to failure in this country. And I simply think Hollywood helps doom the average artist to failure... As for justification, these are my two main thoughts on this issue: "...this is Hollywood we're talking about, not art. And these are corporate workaday hacks--correction, well-paid corporate workaday hacks--who are fighting for a bigger share of the tons of money you and I stupidly throw at them year after year. This is not something of any sort of lasting cultural value..." "Truth is, we’d be much better off without all the distraction and crap. Or at least we’d be just fine. And we’d certainly have more money and more time to focus on something more meaningful–the paintings made by the minor genius who lives at the end of the block, the song written by your cousin the burgeoning cafe-folksinger, the short one-act play written by that cute girl at work." I'm a proponent of supporting art over entertainment. This just makes sense to me; it's akin to the BUY LOCAL idea—i.e., that you'd make a bigger impact on your community by spending your money at the local corner store, rather than at the exurban Wal-Mart down on Hwy 5. Yeah, I admit that was a little ranty. Ok, maybe a lot ranty… And perhaps a bit more sloppily written than usual (it was getting late).
But this is a blog that focuses on art and artists (as opposed to the Hollywood entertainment industry) and what dooms art and artists to failure in this country. And I simply think Hollywood helps doom the average artist to failure…
As for justification, these are my two main thoughts on this issue:
“…this is Hollywood we’re talking about, not art. And these are corporate workaday hacks–correction, well-paid corporate workaday hacks–who are fighting for a bigger share of the tons of money you and I stupidly throw at them year after year. This is not something of any sort of lasting cultural value…”
“Truth is, we’d be much better off without all the distraction and crap. Or at least we’d be just fine. And we’d certainly have more money and more time to focus on something more meaningful–the paintings made by the minor genius who lives at the end of the block, the song written by your cousin the burgeoning cafe-folksinger, the short one-act play written by that cute girl at work.”
I’m a proponent of supporting art over entertainment. This just makes sense to me; it’s akin to the BUY LOCAL idea—i.e., that you’d make a bigger impact on your community by spending your money at the local corner store, rather than at the exurban Wal-Mart down on Hwy 5.

]]> By: Cory Huff http://www.artisticfailure.com/2008/02/18/oh-youre-back-i-didnt-even-notice-you-were-gone/#comment-678 Cory Huff Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:51:30 +0000 http://www.artisticfailure.com/2008/02/18/oh-youre-back-i-didnt-even-notice-you-were-gone/#comment-678 I've appreciated your comments and thoughts as I've subscribed to your blog, but don't you think you're being a little bit too cynical? Sure there is tons of crap out there in the film world, but there is just as much crap in paintings, theatre, sculpture, etc. You just called the entire film industry crap. I bed to differ, my friend. There are a lot of great movies out there, and many more yet to be made. How can you justify your comments? I’ve appreciated your comments and thoughts as I’ve subscribed to your blog, but don’t you think you’re being a little bit too cynical? Sure there is tons of crap out there in the film world, but there is just as much crap in paintings, theatre, sculpture, etc.

You just called the entire film industry crap. I bed to differ, my friend. There are a lot of great movies out there, and many more yet to be made. How can you justify your comments?

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