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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 8 years ago

I believe that taste is one of the most powerful, precious, fragile things in the known Universe and should be cultivated accordingly https://t.co/yt9Fv4lAsI

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 8 years ago

Current: - taste - storytelling & bandwidth of communication - illness - peer influence - home ("did u forget u live here?") - talismans

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

Taste gave us the Sistine Chapel, the iPhone, Hamilton, every great novel, TV show... I'm sure it has a role in science&engineering too

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10/20/2017

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

The crazy thing is that hardly anybody encourages you to develop it. School, society, etc are designed to discourage u from developing taste

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10/20/2017

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

It doesn't have to be malicious. Its mostly innocuous and indifferent. Taste is initially costly, tedious, messy and expensive to develop

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10/20/2017

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

Another funny-annoying thing is - when people manage to cultivate taste for decades, we worship them as geniuses. This is bad in many ways

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10/20/2017

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

First of all, it's disrespectful! Artists and creators are human, not Gods. They'll be happier to have real conversations than be pedestaled

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10/20/2017

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

(Hero worship is SO selfish and cruel... this train is headed somewhere else though)

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10/20/2017

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

The important things about taste and creativity are the process and the work. Respect the process. Give sincere good-faith feedback

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10/20/2017

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

Worship strips creators of what they need to keep making more good art - an honest context to operate in. It's actually so cruel... 🤔😓

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10/20/2017

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

On the other hand, we collectively tend to shit on beginners for trying&failing. This creates this artificial chasm that's bad for everyone

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10/20/2017

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

I love seeing scrappy, shitty work. It's a sign that somebody wants to make something, more than they're worried about what people think. ❤

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10/20/2017

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

Imagine a world where we encouraged beginners to keep making things. We'd have more good art AND better art than we can currently imagine

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10/20/2017

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

Another thing I hate is when critics try to size up a piece of work, cruelly, to see whether it deserves entry into the Hall Of Great Art

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10/20/2017

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

Might be more nuanced on this if challenged - but I think of every piece of art as a bit in a much larger conversation spanning centuries

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10/20/2017

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

If something sucks, just don't talk about it. No comment. It didn't interest me. Focus on what is compelling. Steer the conversation!

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10/20/2017

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

Critics & small-minded fans pit artists against each other. But we're really Team Humanity against absurdity of life &inevitability of death

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10/20/2017

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

If you don't like Twilight or 50shades or Lang Leav or Rupi Kaur - great! Make something better. Challenge and inspire us! We're all hungry

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10/20/2017

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 7 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

Merging another, shorter thread about taste here: https://t.co/bX9nxA4PpF

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 8 years ago

Products of taste: Game of Thrones KFC Louboutins Disneyland US Constitution iPhone Gangnam Style Shakespeare Sydney Opera H. Super Mario

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12/15/2017