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New Year\u2019s Eve in Santa Cruz, pushups done, drinking beer, doing podcast, listening to said podcast and writing about that very podcast. Thanks for listening, thank you for following along. Just gonna have a little fun with the whole thing if I can, if I may, if I must: oh yes all three of the above, because I\u2019m a content creator and I\u2019m creating a cloud of thought that I\u2019m going to distill it later on at the time of writing. But, we\u2019ll see, because life is an experiment, especially as an artist. That\u2019s one of the most important things you can be: experimental. Scientists and artists are similar in a lot of ways. Art overlaps with lots of different fields: the politician, the decorator, the scientist, the clown. 

This age is radically different, though, due to the Internet. It\u2019s as though our connectivity is so prolific that it is now entirely taken for granted. In the past, you could think about people in a more atomic way as little beings bouncing around and reacting to each other. The dream of the atomic family.

With the advance of digital culture, the wildernesses inside of us will recede further and further as more and more is available to see online. The habits of humans are very deep things. When you think about the fact of the unconscious being caused by the repression of thought and you look at an age where nothing really can\u2019t be seen, there\u2019s not much left that\u2019s taboo, what does this mean for the unconscious? What does it mean for culture\u2019s movement? Is there a tipping point, or is there a sweet spot of repression? Is there a way that it goes too far, but there\u2019s also a way where there\u2019s enough that is allowed without everything being open and free? Is there some level, some amount that suffices, have we reached the golden age of the allowable? The golden age of the allowable is the sweet spot of the permissable. More license would make us too decadent. Right now we\u2019re still kinda lusty and hearty, on our way up fucking and drinking but we\u2019re not decadent, creating strange games for people to play while we sit on couches and eat delicious food. 

Anyone and anything that has ever been or will be could be found out there in the world today. There\u2019s so much going on. That\u2019s why the little vignette is both the best and the worst medium for today. With all the storm of content that gets thrown at us every day it\u2019s hard to stop and take on the commitment to read a 600 page literary novel. But you just have to get people hooked, and hence the vignette. I think that people should be camped out for three days ahead of time to get the first copies of your books and they will be wearing costumes of characters from your book. 

That\u2019s why as an artist, it makes sense to adopt a spontaneous loose style where you can work and work and be super prolific but are creating tons of little things and can release them all. You want to create a compulsion to follow. You want people to be looking for what you\u2019re going to do next. Anything short of people camped out for three nights will not do. You need to have a community of people fully one hundred percent fireworks behind the project. 

How do you create that, what will happen, how will you know it?

It will happen something like this: after llistening to someone like me for 6 months you\u2019ll start your own business and you\u2019ll take your projects to the next level. All you can ask of yourself is progress. But the other thing is when you are really on it with the stuff you\u2019re creating that\u2019s all you have time to think about. That\u2019s what you\u2019re most excited to see. How did the photos look? How do the clips go together? How did that description sound? How does the blog entry look? It\u2019s all a matter of repetition. You get better at everything by doing it repeatedly and through using the equipment so much it\u2019s like the camera is melded to your finger and then you have this confidence when you approach someone for a portrait that...\n\n--- \n\nSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jake-j-thomas/support