I read the quote below earlier today and it really spoke to me. Maybe it's because I'm such a flawed creature, but I love that we can find beauty and strength in imperfections and limitations, rather than only focusing on perfection, performance and success.
And shouldn't it be appropriate that real-life experiences are more significant than the mediums we use to record them? Believing otherwise would be like a person visiting Paris and rushing all around to every museum to take pictures but not able to enjoy the richness of the experience.
Life is meant to be lived in the present, immersed in the fullness of 'now'. And mixing in a small dose of nostalgia and reflection is like adding just the right amount pepper and salt to a piece of steak, spicing it up to be fully savoured.
"Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them."
~Brian Eno, A Year With Swollen Appendices~
~Brian Eno, A Year With Swollen Appendices~
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