I like talking with you, simply that:
conversing, a turning-with or-around, as in
your turning around to face me
suddenly, saying Come, and I turn
with you, for sometime
hand under my under-things,
and you telling me
what you would do, where
on what part of my body
you might talk to me differently.
At your turning,
each part of my body turns to verb.
We are the opposite of
tongue-tied, as if there were such an
antonym; we are synonyms
for limbs’ loosening of syntax,
and yet turn to nothing; It’s just talk.

“Talk, You,” by Evan Zimroth

xxxmas realizations; new years retrospection
curiosity, growth, willingness, and cohesion
2013, plz bring an abundance of motivation & positive creations
 ~

Nowadays, in every conversation involving glitch art, computer art, ironic mashing together of computer based images, tumblr is accredited for the embodiment of this image. How is a blogging website-where anyone can post whatever they freely wish given the credit for an image? The internet has existed before tumblr’s existence, tumblr has just popularized some new age art aesthetics. This conversation is only surfacing due to the aesthetic Azealia Banks, Rhianna, Brooke Candy, and Grimes are feeding off. It’s really alarming that popular culture is so quick to deem some trends as “new” and wrongly accredit “new” aesthetics with “new” things that are happening now. New age art has existed since the creation of the world wide web in the 1990’s y’all, this is simply a continuation.

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”

-Ira Glass

Finding this at the end of my BFA career gives me some sentiment of hope for the future.