10-16-2009, 04:33 PM
Vllad, your opinions are based on what you personally see and not other people's reality. You are what a 40 something parent in a non-urban area? What access or interest do you have in what is considered art beyond what is commercially available to you?
Are there actually original films being made out there today that are any different then 50 years ago?
My God, yes. There have been countless films that take the standard film template and turned it on its head. Movies are still original, and still tell amazing stories, youre just not looking in the right places for them.
I know for a fact Music hasn't changed in 200 years let alone the last 50.
I completely disagree. Electronic music didnt exist in the past 50 years. Electric guitar revolutionized music. Sythesizers have changed music. Your previous examples in your previous thread represent commercial music only. There is plenty of amazing, unique artists out there that exist outside the mainstream.
I am asking are there truly new idea's out there in the artistic mediums? I don't see them. This is a subject realitive to gaming since it is its own medium which is why I bring it up as phylisophical question.
For example does the film industry have a shelf life? If so what is that shelf life? Will there come a day when the medium (like books or newspapers) will die? Film will die, in that it will no longer be shot on film. But there will always be a desire to see stories told in some medium.
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Like "Painting" will the medium slowly fade because really there are only so many things you can put on canvas. That doesn't mean people won't continue to paint but is painting really relevant?
As long as there are artists there will always be art. Most of the greatest artists in history were poor and died poor. There will always be people who wish to express themselves in some extroverted way and particularly "painting" an artform that has existed for as long as homo sapiens have walked the earth, will always exist in some form.
You seem to be talking specifically about commercial products. Things that cost money to produce, and therefore rely on formulas that have proven to be profitable, and safe.
Are there actually original films being made out there today that are any different then 50 years ago?
My God, yes. There have been countless films that take the standard film template and turned it on its head. Movies are still original, and still tell amazing stories, youre just not looking in the right places for them.
I know for a fact Music hasn't changed in 200 years let alone the last 50.
I completely disagree. Electronic music didnt exist in the past 50 years. Electric guitar revolutionized music. Sythesizers have changed music. Your previous examples in your previous thread represent commercial music only. There is plenty of amazing, unique artists out there that exist outside the mainstream.
I am asking are there truly new idea's out there in the artistic mediums? I don't see them. This is a subject realitive to gaming since it is its own medium which is why I bring it up as phylisophical question.
For example does the film industry have a shelf life? If so what is that shelf life? Will there come a day when the medium (like books or newspapers) will die? Film will die, in that it will no longer be shot on film. But there will always be a desire to see stories told in some medium.
OR
Like "Painting" will the medium slowly fade because really there are only so many things you can put on canvas. That doesn't mean people won't continue to paint but is painting really relevant?
As long as there are artists there will always be art. Most of the greatest artists in history were poor and died poor. There will always be people who wish to express themselves in some extroverted way and particularly "painting" an artform that has existed for as long as homo sapiens have walked the earth, will always exist in some form.
You seem to be talking specifically about commercial products. Things that cost money to produce, and therefore rely on formulas that have proven to be profitable, and safe.