07-15-2015, 02:56 PM
Slamz Wrote:Or maybe more importantly, why is uniqueness important for art?
Uniqueness isn't so important as new ideas/originality are. It was actually MMO's that got me thinking about it. I am constantly whinning about the lack of new ideas in the gaming world in general. The creation of boards games or computer games as they put out the same ole shit. That took me to movies, television, paintings, photography and pretty soon I was looking at it from a much bigger perspective. I started to question the entire idea of originality the older I got. All mediums of art are primarily just a re-hash of something else. Only in technology are things actually evolving.
As to WHY it is important that all forms of art have more originality that I can easily answer:
I don't have that many years left on this earth. I have lived a lot longer than any life that is a head of me. I want to cram as much in as I can but I am coming to the point where I am running out of new experiences. I will never again get those butterflies when you first meet a new love. I will never again see the 10 Commandments or Lawrence of Arabia on the big screen, I will never read the Similrillion or Inferno for the first time again, I will never see the likes of "The Coronation of Napoleon" by David, play EQ or discover Titan for the first time.
It is these experiences that make life wonderful and impactful. I want to discover more "first" and I desperately seek out new forms of these mediums that impacted me as much as some of the items I listed above. They are becoming more rare every year that passes.
I fully expected life to be completely revolutionary in its experiences every decade I have lived. I am finding out that it doesn't work that way.