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Aspiring Talents
Topic Started: Feb 6 2009, 03:11 AM (170 Views)
Didier
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Sure, sure.. does anyone have anything to say that I haven't heard before?
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Wilting Willow
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Would you say I have talent, Didier? Take a look, tell me what you think.
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Didier
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Maybe it's the shameless promoting I can't stoop to. It takes a certain level of desperation to be able to do this with no effort. I don't know if taking your clothes off in front of a camera qualitifies as a talent, but it's more talent than Midsummer Night has (talentless), so sure, good job on the "talent" Wilting Willow.
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Midsummer Night
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Shameless promoting, what do you call this? King Lear is right, no one's going to give you recognition for downing their art then throwing yours in their faces. It's only a way to get people not to like you right off the bat. And just because you don't consider modeling a talent, doesn't mean you have to tell models they aren't talented, that's just stupid. Oh but let me guess, you're a better model than Wilting Willow?
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Didier
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First of all, with her body, she's doing the only type of modeling that would be "professionally" available to her anyway, I just think it takes something other than "talent" when it comes to that type of modeling. Even if I was better at modeling than she is, it would be unrelated because I would be doing a different type because of my particular body, which would allow more of the "high fashion/runway" look, tall, thin, more or less figureless. And I don't consider what I'm doing to be "throwing my art in peoples faces" because what I've given as examples to people hasn't been my "art" it's been quick examples I threw together to prove a point and so it in no way captures my entire talent. AND I don't call this shameless promoting, what would I be promoting?
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Pribble
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Dude, you have to be seriously gay to not think she's hot.
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our*eclipse

Well, in spite of reading everyone else's comments, I can't really agree with any of it too much. If I felt the way you felt and I was an artist, I think it would destroy me. Isn't what we create meant to be appreciated by the world? If I created something beautiful and everyone just passed it by without a second look, I think I'd start to lose my passion for everything. Isn't this why so many artists took their own lives? Because they felt alone in their worlds and everytime they tried to let someone in, they were rejected. It takes years for us to see the true beauty in their work maybe because they were so ahead of their times we couldn't even appreciate them yet. I don't know. I see a lot of things in the 'art' world that are overrated to me, and I do wonder why something that is supposed to be so anti-trend has gotten to be so trendy.
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Didier
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There is a God afterall.. thank you for commenting. Uh, what it's destroyed is my respect for art. It has infuriated me to the point of literally destroying some of my own art. When you get to the destructive stage, you go after what's most precious to you, so a lot of my best art went in the trash. It makes you feel stupid to give other people that much power over your life. The passion is still there, but the respect is gone. And I do feel very rejected by "art society". Everything in the art world "is" very overrated, and it "doesn't" make sense why it's become so trendy. I have to feel like I've wasted my life on something that isn't going to give anything back, which could lead to feeling I have nothing to live for. All my focus has been on my passion, art, and the "world" laughs in my face. I don't spend much time on my art these days, if it has nothing to offer me, or I have nothing to offer it, then it's a waste of time.
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Midsummer Night
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Then you're not aspiring and it is a waste of time.
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our*eclipse

I remember destroying some of my stuff when I went through a depression, and doing that really changes you. It numbs something in you, even to the point of changing your work because you, or at least I did, really start to build up a kind of hate/rage for yourself or your work because of all the rejection. Before that I could easily connect to my work, because it was a part of me, now I feel really seperate from it, like it's just something I do, but not what or who I am. So yeah, those rejections hurt in a lot of ways.
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