Most of the western world's art has been lost until about 600 years ago with the resurgence of classical Greek and Roman pieces bringing about the Renaissance.At the turn of the century,digital media sprang forth from obscurity and into a mainstream audience and ushered in a whole new era:The information Age
Well now the introductory crap is over with,you might wonder what the renaissance and "the age of mass media" have in common........
The sudden surge of information and self-expression(blog-casts,web shows, yes even youtube)all coming from the least thought of (and that would be classicism for renaissance and video games for today).The first websites were and correct me if I'm wrong,finding walkthroughs for games and sure enough those piss-ant scholars would want to know what they're painting about.Even the target audience is the same,the Greeks and Romans famous for sodomy and violence that alludes most of their work mirrors that of games.....unfortunately even the sodomy part.
Back to the present,(and on topic)
Art is a very vague term,very vague indeed,a bunch of scribbles that looks like a horse may be celebrated as a masterpiece of emotion and clarity(more often that not by the pretentious upper-class).I'm not against the rich and deplorable,the problem is our need to conform with them(and my bad puns).Seriously, have you ever thought of Gears of war as a hyper-masculine expression of death,brutality and violence.......i didn't,i thought of it as an exercise in "how to lose your audience mid-story" having a chainsaw to rip people in half and shooting guns behind Velcro chest-high walls becomes a novelty in about an hour.In reality most of our "art"isn't really pinnacles of the modern sophisticated man,take movies for example,only a handful of them are really any good,half of them are skin flicks and the others are too convoluted or you're not the target audience.People try and associate it with art is to show that it is acknowledged and appreciated.The only reason i see it that movies are considered as art is because of the moviestars that star in them.
Don't get me wrong i know the whole process of moviemaking,THAT IS AN ART,much like acting and directing and heck even keygripping.Games are,in the process of making it,is art in exercise.I wish i could elaborate but just ask the people from Kongregate how much of themselves they put in to make flash/java games.We don't need to defend games are art......I think it doesn't want to be.Games,like movies have one fundamental thing in common though,THEY ARE FUN.......take super mario for example,physics of acceleration and gravity GREAT,simple distinguishable enemies and scenery FANTASTIC,the joy of successfully reaching 9-9 MAKES ME WANT TO PLAY IT AGAIN.Much like watching bad boys 2 the line "shit just got real" still makes me laugh while the thought of exploding meth labs swirl on my head.
For any questions you can email me [email protected]
but that still wouldn't make up for real human contact
Well now the introductory crap is over with,you might wonder what the renaissance and "the age of mass media" have in common........
The sudden surge of information and self-expression(blog-casts,web shows, yes even youtube)all coming from the least thought of (and that would be classicism for renaissance and video games for today).The first websites were and correct me if I'm wrong,finding walkthroughs for games and sure enough those piss-ant scholars would want to know what they're painting about.Even the target audience is the same,the Greeks and Romans famous for sodomy and violence that alludes most of their work mirrors that of games.....unfortunately even the sodomy part.
Back to the present,(and on topic)
Art is a very vague term,very vague indeed,a bunch of scribbles that looks like a horse may be celebrated as a masterpiece of emotion and clarity(more often that not by the pretentious upper-class).I'm not against the rich and deplorable,the problem is our need to conform with them(and my bad puns).Seriously, have you ever thought of Gears of war as a hyper-masculine expression of death,brutality and violence.......i didn't,i thought of it as an exercise in "how to lose your audience mid-story" having a chainsaw to rip people in half and shooting guns behind Velcro chest-high walls becomes a novelty in about an hour.In reality most of our "art"isn't really pinnacles of the modern sophisticated man,take movies for example,only a handful of them are really any good,half of them are skin flicks and the others are too convoluted or you're not the target audience.People try and associate it with art is to show that it is acknowledged and appreciated.The only reason i see it that movies are considered as art is because of the moviestars that star in them.
Don't get me wrong i know the whole process of moviemaking,THAT IS AN ART,much like acting and directing and heck even keygripping.Games are,in the process of making it,is art in exercise.I wish i could elaborate but just ask the people from Kongregate how much of themselves they put in to make flash/java games.We don't need to defend games are art......I think it doesn't want to be.Games,like movies have one fundamental thing in common though,THEY ARE FUN.......take super mario for example,physics of acceleration and gravity GREAT,simple distinguishable enemies and scenery FANTASTIC,the joy of successfully reaching 9-9 MAKES ME WANT TO PLAY IT AGAIN.Much like watching bad boys 2 the line "shit just got real" still makes me laugh while the thought of exploding meth labs swirl on my head.
For any questions you can email me [email protected]
but that still wouldn't make up for real human contact
