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Re: Hey there,...
I'll show you how bad I am as soon as I can
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Taron wrote:Are you seeing my signature?
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Also, art and design are currently some of the most sought after professions. It would be just as promising, if not more, were you to go for those majors. People are just not familiar enough with what's going on in the world right now and still think in terms of suit+tie=salary.
Constant praise is not the cause of arrogance, just a supporting factor. I'm familiar with constant praise, if I may say so, , for the last...oh...kind of all of those years, but especially the last 16 years, I think. Sometimes it may even be the absence of praise where it counts the most, which triggers some of it. But the most important reason is the skewed idea of "self-importance", not understanding that one is nothing without everyone else and the expectation to be understood as "special" before actually having earned it and then not caring about that aspect instead.
You live somewhere in Southeast asia? Korea? Philippines? Just curious.
Well, as long as you focus on your art, it doesn't matter where you are or where you come from. And always keep in mind that your art is very much for the purpose of "international communications"...if not even "universal communications".
Art is also really "just another" occupation at the end. We all are meant to do something and ideally that is something we can do successfully, something in which we can excel, because we truly love doing it, we are ready to put all our efforts into it. Whether this is art, fixing things, helping people, managing stuff or inventing solutions, it doesn't matter what it is, as long as you have the will power to make it happen and make it work.
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Taron wrote:The real battle is true dedication!
Art is something that grabs you and doesn't let you go. You'd be ready to work tirelessly to explore and learn, countless sleepless nights for many years, never ever to be really satisfied with what you can do, but highly satisfied when you do it. There is no such thing as "becoming an artist", really, because if you really are an artist, you'll be the last to ever know it, no matter how many times it may be told to you.
There's no definite salary for the creative field. Not to mention that each country has its own ideas about the value of work. Eventually you have to determine to yourself what your time is worth. Here, too, an artist cares most about being able to live off his craft and not so much about how high the compensation. When I was your age I started working on multimedia productions and got the equivalent of like $12 per hour. Until I was asked by another company to do a job and got offered $30 an hour when I was 18 or 19, I don't remember exactly anymore. Then I turned freelancer and soon went up to $50...all the while working day and night like a mad man. I did look very scary then, pale, thin, hidden away in my studio-dungeon, hahahaha, blinds always down. Anyway, it was fine for me, but I'm sure it's been scary for those, who'd see me at night, getting smokes, hahaha. By the time I was invited to the States, I had developed a reputation that gave me a strong start in the visual effects industry, yet, compared to what I was making in Germany, it was actually a little less, but I didn't have to work day and night anymore as much, still every now and then. I had to tear myself out of it, move away from the States to really meet life again.
I'm not sure, if you would like such a life for yourself now. It took me 37 years to wake up from my obsession and actually start living again outside of my profession, so to say. But even now, being back on some projects, I'm sucked into the machine again a little more than I want to. Especially since I've started to develop Verve. (I just love it way too much!)
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