How To Enjoy Art Authentically
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- čas přidán 5. 07. 2024
- A video essay on finding books and artists you'll actually enjoy. how to explore the world of ideas and art.
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I agree with your thoughts on art. An old conversation, I had with a friend that has since passed away, came to mind while watching. This fellow was considerably older, more sophisticated and urbane that myself. He was also considered to be somewhat of a wine aficionado. So in an effort to broaden my understanding and appreciation for wine, I asked him if he could "school me" on the topic. He simply chuckled and replied, "buddy, open a bottle, let it breath and drink some of it. If it tastes good to you it is good. End of lesson." My point is that life is short. I don't have time to read books or gaze upon paintings that I don't enjoy. Imbibe those things in life that turn you on, everything else is pretense.
I've found myself literally incapable of reading a book without looking through hundreds of reviews of it, just to see if it's worth my time ironically wasting hours of my time. And if i see a couple of poor reviews i get immediately turned off. What you said made me conscious of this terrible habit and now I'm gonna work on fixing it and giving myself the chance to experience books and artists by myself
I do this too. I tend to value the star rating more than individual comments because with any book you're going to find someone that hated it or found it life changing. The star rating averages those people out.
Loved this! You basically summed up all my creative process from the last year and a half. I think that falling in love with one specific author and investigate their influence was key! It's so interesting how music, writing and all kinds of arts are a mix of other people's work.
Am I the only one who would genuinely be interested in talking about how brilliant Chekov and Marcel Proust were on a date/meeting with friends? I legit talk about classics all the time with my best friend 😆
I haven't read Proust but I felt like Chekov added a new part to my soul Lmao.
Chekov is soooo great
On Point Two, something that works well for me is finding people who's aphorisms really resonate with me. This is how I discovered Voltaire and ended up given ‘Candide’ a shot and loving it. Similarly I discovered Naval Ravikant while watching a JRE clip. His thoughts on topics and aphorisms he brought up really resonated with me. I ended up buying and loving ‘The Almanack of Naval Ravikant’ and have read several books that he recommended. Finding people that you click with is so helpful because the likelihood is high that you’ll enjoy their recommended books, most of which you’d otherwise never give a chance.
Okay, yes. This is the type of content I’m looking for and didn’t even know.
I was listening to Austin Kleon's Steal Like an Artist and it felt so relatable. As a copywriter I already keep a swipe file, I have a habit of collecting pieces of content that I like. Keeping a scrapbook sounds fun.
My local public library is what helped me explore the most; I no longer have to read reviews or justify the cost as it is essentially free which has made me much more open into reading books I otherwise wouldn't have!
You’re so good at using a camera to tell a story
You rock the Picasso striped shirt look
I really love the dinner table test theory robin! So real and raw, love your new transition!
Cheers Jay. :))
This was needed... Beautiful content
So true: you can't trust anything or anyone but your internal compass.
The point you made about browsing with spontaneity is something I've been yearning to do again but haven't been able to put the words to or put into action. I miss finding different kinds of media on my own, no recommendations, just hunting through shelves for interesting things. I think it's hard for me to break this habit though, my "to read" shelf on Goodreads has become too massive haha. I also feel like browsing without a plan is even harder since started working at a library. People will come in asking for recommendations in specific genres I'm not familiar with, so it's become sort of like homework to read different genres and books in different age groupings that I wouldn't pick up otherwise. I don't think this is a bad thing, I discover stuff that I never thought I'd like because it's a genre I don't normally pick up, but I miss the freedom of going in blind.
Well done, you just nailed it, especially point 3. Can’t wait to browse with spontaneity my next bookshop visit.
Every time I watch your's videos, I get inspired to do something creative. Thank you.
Also a lot of times i found myself thinking i had bad taste or that i was missing something because i wasn't completely entralled by a book that all the internet folks seemed to like (eg: Norwegian wood, song of Achilles etc). But maybe, i just don't like them and it's ok? I'm trying to get more comfortable with my own tastes and its variance from popular opinion.
i don’t get the ecstasy from norwegian wood either
@@mangoisland4792 yeah i read it, and felt really weird because i didn't feel like i read anything worthwhile
I adore murakami's work, but honestly Norwegian wood wasn't the book for me, it was very tasteless imo.
But I have similar experience with a very well loved classic, which I ended up not liking it at all.
@@zhyarjasim i think kafka on the shore was pretty great. He does amazing at magical realism
@@pipersolanas3322 exactly, I really love his magical realism books.
Love the dinner table test! LOVE IT!
Hi
Loved this
Hey, R.C. You are kinda brilliant. Thank you.
This is a great piece of advice, I really love your content
brilliant!
I really love ur channel thanku!!
On your last point, which is a thing I want to experience more often, I had a very lovely encounter with.
Late summer of 2020 I have read all the books I have owned, and I decided to browse through my brother's bookshelf, he usually buys alot of random second hand books, and I came across the first book of the song of ice and fire in that collection, by that time I knew about the TV show but I was never interested enough to watch it, I just picked up the book fully expecting to just read the first chapter and putting it back down, oh boy was I wrong, I ended up loving the book, and later I talked with my friend about it, and he recommended me Berserk that was similar to it, I ended up loving that as well (I have avoided that book as well for some time now).
So I am actually very glad for this encounter, because I found two of my all time favorite works through it.
This was so insightful and helpful, reminded me of when I spontaneously purchased 'The Late Mattia Pascal' and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Great video!!!
great video!
Preach!
I watched your vid on how to get through big books.
I want to know what you thought of Infinite Jest?
That's pure content 👌
Impressive
Tried this the other day--picked up a random book at my local library (Life for Sale by Yukio Mishima), ended up absolutely adoring it. Don't know if it would've been the same had I read a recommendation first.
O just had a really shitty day, full of anxiety And this somehow helped me a lot. Thanks
#refreshing, inspiring, tfs
so glad to watch this video esp since im doing art as a hobby lmao!
This kind of reminds me of Tyler the creators sort of philosophy where he loves the little niches of life that he does, creates in those fields because he loves it, and then got lucky enough for a public response. But it all comes down to actually having your artistic tastes.
God it has been bloody hot the past few days hasn't it? I've had trouble sleeping for the last two nights.
Noted down each of them
great video, but what's the sound used at 1:33 when the type appears?
It's a stopwatch sound effect from Epidemic Sound.
so so so true- I'm amazed by the way you put into words something we all think about but nobody speaks of-
(loved the tshirt)
Art to express not to impress
I never read book reviews, movie reviews; I usually trust my intuition and go with it. And I relate to the statement "at the end of the day, no one cares about your taste", on a spiritual level. Many people have called me "shallow" and many have called me "pretentious intellectual" so that dinner table talk did not work for me. I just talk about my likings with one or two people and I only ask them if they have any recommendations.
Oh yeah, I 100% agree with your bookstore idea at the end. I'm very picky about the style of writing so I tend to flip to random pages of the book to sample a few sentences to get an overall idea of the author's style, since the first chapter and especially the initial "hook" of the book aren't necessarily true to the overall feel of the book. Rarely steers me wrong.
One time I did buy a book simply because it had a cool title and it was highlighted at the store as being "amazing" and a real page turner... wound up being one of the worst books I've ever read, and I threw that abomination of literature across the room when I finished reading it. Why did I finish it? It was very short. And naively, despite being so angry and annoyed while reading it, I was still hoping to be surprised, and I wanted to understand why it had almost 5 stars on its online reviews. It's a bit embarrassing how enraged and irritated it made me (I ranted to a lot of people about how awful it was). :')
Author recommendation: Andre Dubus, short story writer NOT Andre Dubus iii (his son and also a good writer). He has an amazing short story called “Fat Girl”. Seriously, this guy was an amazing American short story writer. Read him now lol. No pressure.
I just go by my own experience, I never like to read indications or something like this, only if the person who are recommending knows me in person and has a feel that I could potentially like it. In general, if it makes me feel good, then I love it and don't care about the hype. Art is experience: It's for me, it's my experience, no one else can have it for you, in your place. There are alot of classics that I didn't finished and never will, for me, are empty words. Am I saying it's bad or good? No. It's only not what I want to consume. To impress people, are they liking me or the books that I read?! It never made sense to me to love people by these aspects. Makes more sense to them to go spend their time with the books who impresses them alot than with me then! Haha! Art taste is so personal! That's why it's impossible to label it as a "right" taste or "wrong" taste, I just feel that some big artists of the past made their way due to a couple of circunstances that made it possible, not because they were the only legends. (With no intentions to diminish none of them). You just enjoy what makes you happy! Remembering that art has the power of healing too... So, we may not like that weird song someone is listening due to the terrible lyrics, but for them, they may having an cartasis and it's taking off the trash off of their hearts, maybe! Who know, in the end?! Art has alot of papers in this world. And that's all is my personal perspective of course. Nice video as usual, Waldun!
Guys, i want to read Anna Karenina but i am confused which translation should I read.
Can someone plz suggest which one should i buy?
Just learn Russian /s
Larissa Volokhonsky and Richard Pevear
@@dominik.w1226 haha, i dont have that much time brother, anyways thanks for suggestion.
@@kermit3194 ok brother, thank you for the suggestion, i will go with the edition you suggested.
Thanks for clearing my confusion, i was in it for 2 days now. Really appreciated you.
@@kermit3194 just one more question brother, i have some books with 2 or 3 translations, but i read only one translation, so other translations are just sitting idle, also i can't sell them.
So is my money wasted now?
the best art is the art of the people and one that connects the people and that is an artist book nas kendrick and 2pac are the best artist books autobiography
Cant wait for your original nfts, mr Waldun. From Russia with cold (
R.C must collaborate with Radu Dumitrescu