Jays’ Artzone (18+) @jaylek - Tumblr Blog

Examples of my art! Trying to include some of my favs from both worlds...

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graskip

shadow mage

jaylek

Very cool

saywhat-politics

ex0skeletal-undead

Works by octonimoes

ex0skeletal-undead

by Andrei Riabovitchev

ex0skeletal-undead

Burial Mound, oil on canvas by Zack Dunn

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moarf13

heck-yeah-liminal-spaces

androdragynous

art tips

don't call what you create "content". regardless of what it is. that's the devil talking. call it art, call it writing, call it music, call it analysis, call it editing, literally just call it what it is

I was going to put other things but oh my god please just don't call yourself a "content creator". you are a person you are making art / writing / music / etc you are an artist an author a musician

you are not an Image Generator For Clicks And Views. please. allow yourself to connect with your work by naming it properly and acknowledging yourself in kind

dduane

Really, really THIS.

Calling the art you make “content” — whatever’s actually going to happen to it — reduces it instantly to the status of “something someone else’s going to sell for more than the creator’s going to be paid for it.” It reduces you to being a mere element in somebody else’s so-called business plan.

“Art” is an old, old word. It means—reaching back in time—any made thing (the ancient root-word “artifice” meant to point up what human beings made on purpose instead of something the world shaped by accident). Good, bad, or indifferent, it’s what a human mind made, using whatever ancient or modern tool you can imagine. Art doesn’t have to be GREAT to qualify for the term. It just has to be made, by a living being: for pleasure, to work through pain, idly or with huge intent, for fun or seriously, to illuminate vast subjects or just to jerk the world around for a few minutes.

The “content” term and framing attempts to reduce your creation to something meant inevitably to be bought and sold: a mere product, a commodity, a cheap thin thing that’ll wear out and leave whoever engages with it wanting something better (but always somehow cheaper). The pushers of the “content” concept want you to think of what you’ve invented in the numinous silences of your head—the bitter, the joyous, the anguished, the glorious—as something worthless unless it can be sold off in bulk: packaged like sausage, containered like cottage cheese.

The entities (hard to call them “people” at the corporate level, poor things) who want to sell your output, don’t want to remunerate you decently for it. After all, that might give customers the idea that fellow humans deserving of acknowledgement—not the vast non-living organisms we now call companies—were responsible for the passion and emotion in the art you buy every day… and for which the corporations pay the individual humans responsible for the “content” the very lowest price possible.

What you can do about this: Demand noisily that the creators responsible for art be treated like creatives, worthy of their hire.

What we who create can do: Keep doing it, in hopes that the world catches up with what we’re at.

Be art, and don’t let them make you “content.”

jaylek

Putting my thoughts into words perfectly... always felted weirded out when people started referring to everything as content suddenly