baring the names - a collective emotions

I remember when I first enter AnD, I read Norm Yip's earily blog entry, talking about "what is about bloging....", " how much things are private, what is for public....", "the business world want him to..." then I read Kenjin's describe himself as "struggling artist", shocked me a bit.

Then I remember I was talking to one of my good singer friend in Hong Kong, telling him one of my ideas in his MV (for a new album with a concept of "traveling"), is to make him sing with his guitar on the street in an European city. He got a bit offended and told me he don't want to be a "staving artist" on the street.

Then I was in a meeting in a record company in Beijing, the boss want to make a MV of one of their singer, started with him as a street singer in Beijing, sharing one lunch box with his girl friend.

Promoting your life (life style as well) seems to be the progress with a lot of "artists". Artist spend a lot of times, money and effort on what they believe, some got lucky, some never.... but I am seeing, once the life got promoted, life style changed, social world shifted, passions also diminished... and slowly bring the crisis in the art.

I was a bit confused about all this fact about business, artist, struggling and staving... 

99% of "business" is talking about profit, when talk about innovations, it's always "high risk", "business" want it safe, and CONSTANTLY generating profit. So when Britney Spear works, it comes Jessica Simposon, Mandy Moore. When Alanis Morissette works, it comes Meredith Brook, now we have Amy Winehouse, Duffy... for movies, there's Dream Girls, High School Musical, Mama Mia, this is all "strategies" to fill up the market space, nothing creative to me...

so I am stuck here.... but always remembering the initiations of my art, and how difficult it was to achieve the status, how was the progress, and try to make a smoother path for the people behind me...

“Van Gogh was simply broke – he didn’t have $100,000 in debt,” says the 32-year-old Falkowski, who makes text paintings but works weekdays as a medical receptionist to make ends meet. “We all should be so lucky.”

"What are you waiting for, nobody gonna show you how..."

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ that's all for this moment ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

"Fifty years on we may judge that Dylan Thomas's poverty was noble, while Nina Hamnet's was senseless. But a minor artist with no money goes as hungry as a genius. What drove them to do it? / I believe that such people were not only choosing art, they were choosing the life of the artist. Art offered them a different way of living, one that they believed more than compensated for the loss of comfort and respectability."