Do what you love.
I read an interesting article about the movie
industry and how just like in music, there are more movies and less people to
watch them. Budgets are getting slashed and the days of making a mediocre movie
and making the money back in dvd sales are over. The article ended on an
excellent point and I'll try to paraphrase it here. The author said that we
could no longer afford to make movies that seemed like a good idea. We could
only make movies we loved.
I think
that applies to all art. There are so many choices now for entertainment; TV,
cable, movies, videogames, tivo, slingbox, hulu, netflix, vimeo, facebook,
myspace and whatever offer us 24/7 options. People have choices in what they
spend their time on. The days of selling an album off of one good single and 9
crap songs are over. All the songs have to be good. We have to love ALL The
art we make. We can't make records because they are trendy or because they are
where radio is going. We should only be making art we love. When we put our
passion into something, consumers can tell and they can definitely tell when we
don't. They will only love it if we love
it.
So if you make art, don't be halfway
about it. Don't be trendy, don't be afraid, don't stop till it's something you
love. There will always be a market for things that were made
passionately.
I'd link to the
article, but I've completely forgotten where it came from.
Posted: Mon - October 27, 2008 at 12:41 PM
