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Creative Output
Nothing new here. Vermeer was all but unknown for 200 years, and Van Gogh: ignored to death. By comparison, Norman Rockwell and Thomas Kinkade became household names- each early in his life. The history of the arts abounds with such examples. (Who here watches Jenny Saville, Tai-Shan Schierenberg, Ann Gale, David Kassan?) Not to say there aren’t exceptions - there are, but they live in that sliver of overlap.
We like to think of social media as efficiently exposing previously or otherwise hidden talent, but I think something quite opposite is going on. Thanks to social media, the circle on the right seems to grow exponentially year-over-year, while the circle on the left, at best, resists shrinking.
Internet!

Creative Output

Nothing new here. Vermeer was all but unknown for 200 years, and Van Gogh: ignored to death. By comparison, Norman Rockwell and Thomas Kinkade became household names- each early in his life. The history of the arts abounds with such examples. (Who here watches Jenny Saville, Tai-Shan Schierenberg, Ann Gale, David Kassan?) Not to say there aren’t exceptions - there are, but they live in that sliver of overlap.

We like to think of social media as efficiently exposing previously or otherwise hidden talent, but I think something quite opposite is going on. Thanks to social media, the circle on the right seems to grow exponentially year-over-year, while the circle on the left, at best, resists shrinking.

Internet!

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    Man. So glad that I’m neither great nor popular. I have all that fucking white space to myself!!!
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    you can expand this beyond just creative output...include politicians.
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    good lord. so i took a double dose of adderall, and just wrote a lot. there’s no way i’m editing all of this all at...
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    Don’t even get me started on Thomas Kinkade.
  10. shadesofm reblogged this from bettylies and added:
    I’ve always been a small circle kind of person. This explains it!(not that *I’m* great, just that I prefer the thoughts...
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