What Basquiat Taught Me About Content Addiction 

internet destroys authenticity, i believe building proper infrastructure IRL then taking it online without playing the social media game is key to build a cohesive body of art.

t's pronounced "say-mo," a moniker for the phrase "same old, same old" which a popular term amongst street artists at the time and signified the mundane-ness of life. Great vid

Might be just me, but i enjoy the process of creating art. Be that beats, graphic design, and paintings. I just enjoy creating it's like sharpening a sword. The more you sharpen it, the better the blade will become. Validation will come. You just gotta sharpen your craft.

After hopping of both IG and TikTok last July amd really only focusing on RU-vid I've seen a huge shift in mindset, spiritual and emotional health, and the use of my free time. I'm more present from moment to moment, I've read loads of books, and I've spent more time resting and meditating. I think you hit the nail on the head with part 2 and I really love the connections between the commodification of art and the pigeonhole of our personalities. Kudos as always 🎉

I am a music producer that releases music 🎵 mostly on my own. I spend countless hours alone trying to get attention on my art while at the same time trying to connect with humans . It is a daunting task and I battle with both trying to be a recluse so I have time to make art and be a part of humanity at the same time. Sometimes I question my life choices and how I’ve chosen to spend my time. Other times I think 🤔 I didn’t even make the choice because there is nothing else I could ever do besides make music 🎵. How can an artists make great art 🖼️ without millions of followers yet find enough inspiration to continue the path even without the validation of success or money. I struggle with this concept often as I am not required to get shows to survive right now. Any tips from other creators is appreciated. ❤

Incredible video, I appreciate your integrity in your messaging and I hope ideas like this become the new renaissance of the next generation. We are really ready to move on.

"[social media] wants to say, there's an easy definition of you in this place..." that insight at the end of part 2, AWESOME. I am hip to how social media works- with its bells and whistles to keep us hooked on there, but I think in that conversation, many neglect the more simple fact that it's so comfortable, lacks complexity/defines you/other people simply.. translated perfectly to Basquaits experience too. you're awesome. perfect video to start my day, and relevant to some major decisions i'm making now about next steps in my practice. pretty much heading to wherever i'm most intimidated/uncomfortable at this point. 🎉❤👑

I really appreciate the connection being made here between Jean-Michel Basquiats work and our ever-evolving, content driven media/tech world. Jaron Laniers prophetic manifesto 'The Serdom of Crowds' and/with 'You are not a gadget' is also a very apropo kepper. Just like a can of spraypaint: CONTENT UNDER PRESSURE. RIP SAMO©️ 🙏

Commenting for engagement because more creatives need to see this. You’ve given me a lot to think about, thank you

Some much needed food for thought. This is one of those things I know I need to think about more but have been struggling to make the conscious choice too. I think that's what it is for me - it's all so automatic and effortless... but it's not like I'm happy this way. Something being effortless doesn't inherently make it positive. Thank you for putting it right in front of me, I needed this prompt.

Spotify ad was very well cut in and out didnt feel super intrusive nice job

David Foster Wallace's commencement speech is life-changing, definitely recommend everyone to read/listen to it great video as usual!

hey man, I really appreciate the work that goes into these pieces you create, keep up the incredible work. As an artist myself, I'm always picking up gems watching your videos, i hope that you succeed and thrive always, and In the ways that you envision doing so. Stay awesome!

this is such an important message, forget the success, at its core we need to know that if you're doing it and loving it you're succeeding already

Love your channel so much, thanks for everything you do!

Really enjoyed this perspective, beautiful video, definitely subscribed.

I find your videos really valuable they always make me think and keep thinking after I've watched. All the stuff around 14:00 hits hard.

Insightful! I am deeply relying on algorithm because it suggests videos like yours to feed my mind. Thank you for the work!

Really digging the content you're putting out there man, so important for everyone to hear. I feel fortunate that I grew up before the days of the internet and mobile phones, but that's put me so out of touch. You're bringing the best aspects of real life, and technology, and wrapping it up with a nice philosophical bow on top. I hope you're voice reaches the ears and minds of many folk out there, you're doing a great thing. Thanks for doing what you do. Appreciate ya, take it easy 👍

Thanks for all of this, dude. 👾

Great video. I particularly enjoyed learning more about Basquait.

I hope Basquiat's family gets some of the proceeds from his artwork. He was a genius who did not want to fit in the square box that society wanted to squeeze him into❤

I LOVE THIS VIDEO!!!!!!!! Thank you for posting it, IT'S GREAT!!!!

Truly Beautiful video, Concise but Heavy Information put Together So Clean. This type of Art is Needed Beyond Measures we could ever Dream About. Keep Going, Please & Stay Strong! Sending Luv♾️

Man it's amazing how well you're able to express your thoughts and ideas. How long does it take you to write these scripts? Are they all small pieces written down over time that you then bring together? Or do you sit down and get this all out? Because it's super well thought out, and puts into words very accurately how I, and many of my creative friends, feel. The thoughts tend to hang in the back of my mind but with no true conclusion/action to take. So thanks for this. Food for thought that helps us digest! 🙏

One of your best videos...and Basquiat is one of my favorite artists. The duality of every artists is how to make money while keeping your artistic integrity.

great content as usual. thank you!

Excellent video-thank you.

its awesome you talk about this

This is such a great video. Than you!

excellent video, thanks bro

One things that is really sad is that a lot of his work being gobbled up into capitalistic media, t shirts, tote bags, etc. That his family sold out to that and let his work go and get warped for something like a paycheck.

For some reason I'm beginning to question if my dread of existing is solely attributed to trauma..or could it be THAT and ALSO this stereotype of being, of HUMAN BEING, that's been so heavily perpetuated through media. Like in the act of doing, human being has devolved into a caricature now, that's just how I feel after watching this video. For me expressing said existence through art is just ugh, focused on reception, doing something for something, being worried about getting SOMETHING back, thirsting after that - like I just posted some art yesterday and I'm worried about numbers....FUCKING NUMBERS. Idk if I make any sense, I just feel how I feel.

A discord of creative minds would be sick !

Great video!

This is honestly one for the best videos on art I’ve seen on RU-vid You simply summarized how consumerism in art in content has rotted our brains and removed us from what art truly is: subjective. Make what u want, and make it with intention bc there’s an audience for u and that audience can just be yourself

really enjoyed this one

Great work

Thank you!

Awesome and thought provoking. I needed to hear this because I deleted my social media a few months back and wondered what the next step in online integration might be career-wise. I'd like to be a conscious content creator, and at the very least, avoid hypocrisy. Basquiat's art is super inspirational for any visual artist... I had a friend who painted like him - it seems to come from a mental state that is both extremely free to express the inner soul, and yet also feels trapped by society. I suppose the same can be said for all artists but some bring that conflict together in a way that can make you feel the heavy reality of that experience just by viewing the work. Thank you for the book recommendations and great video. I'll screenshot those prompts and bear the questions in mind as I develop better day to day lifestyle and business habits.

Great video

15 years ago I had a few small victory's in art. all as a result of contact on line. but things change so fast i can not always keep up.

How dependent. Social media is like a cigarette to me now, its the one thing I guarantee everyday. Even over my dreams, I have so much access to everything I want to do and its damn near impossible to focus. Entertainment endless vs being able to study anything you could dream off. I could go on forever man

"we may admire what he does, but we despise what he is.” ― Wilhelm von Humboldt It suggests that our admiration for external accomplishments can be overshadowed by disdain for the person's true nature or values. I suspect very few people cared for the person Basquait was. Only really intersted in the economic value of his work and the "cool" association that brings.

This morning I asked my bf to go off short form media like tiktok reels and shorts for a month. The removal of the app from it's spot has really defined the persistent of the urge to get that hit

amazing video

JMB loved making art and being an artist, but the fame and the money must have led him to self-loathing because he allowed himself to be pimped out by the dealers, critics and gallery owners.

Very very cool thank you

i was scrolling instead of watching the ads of this video

hi!! have you considered making a discord of some kind for likeminded creators like us to collaborate??

I’ve been watching your videos for a while now, and always really enjoy them, they give me little boosts every time. I wanted to see if you’d like to join my journal experiment I’m doing to help me with my goals?

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I did a lot of research on different artists. They all got out of life what they wanted. I never liked their private lives. I do enjoy the art they left behind. Their private lives was nobody's business.

18:00 he’s COOKING.

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heroin is a pure example of capitalism. capitalism destroys artists. andy warhol saw this but was sort of autistically dissociated from it. andy warhol saw basquiat destroying himself with heroin but was dissociated. he did not know how to be a mentor. andy warhol collaborated with basquiat. those collaborative works are really moving. i take the SAMO period quite seriously. he writes short poems, very reflective and thought and emotion stimulating. to me SAMO was the obvious precursor to Banksy. I don't know much about art, but I can see sensitivity, passion, pain, expression, intelligence, energy. Also I wish DFW and Mark Fisher had stuck around for Byung-Chul Han. Han would have impressed DFW particularly I think. Maybe would have given him some hope.

Damnn I wish DFW was alive for this era holy shit!

literally brave new world (1932)

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And then Jay-Z stole his hairstyle 😂

see the soup know the soup don't become the

Great video! However SAMO as in SAY MO , for same old shit

Heroine is such a great drug for making art. When I was an addict I was prolific! I made my best, most confident art when I was a junkie. I’m clean now and have been for 15 years but I’ll never paint and create like I did when I had that. It’s amazing what that drug does for art.

This who jay-z tryna be like

I don’t understand the tone towards graffiti or starting as a graffiti artist, it’s not a lie, he did graffiti and ran around with his friends and he had a tag and he evolved. I don’t understand the whole him being in graffiti was a lie statement ?

I don’t think that “primal” was racism ._. I think it referred to the raw emotions and tribal art inspiration

Not mentioning the structural roots of the issues made your points lacking. Like Basquiat you have problems with structures but do not want to name them. Capitalism was not mentioned once. It is the reason social media is designed to be addictive and reactionary. It is why those that own most of the wealth do not want marginalized voices in art. One of the Problems with Basquiat is that he wanted to be apart of the capitalist class making his critiques of racism fall flat since he is not going to the root. Also the points on coddling fall really close to fascistic clichés of: "Men are weak now. We need strong violent men". The commericial you sited is an ad that was selling the idea of the "best" possible outcome under capitalism: being a passive consumer. Social media does not succeed at that. Most rely on inflamatory or bigoted content like youtube. 10000s of reactionary accounts that spew a content mill of hate filled garbage. A lot are addicted to those and develop para social groups around attacking marginalized groups. Having people be hateful is better then them being passive for big business. It gives those in power useful people to deflect structural issues of capitalism onto the "other" existing.

come brutally criticize my chill beats pls

Could Bassquiat draw? Did he ever practice drawing literal things from observation? Did he know the rules before he broke them or was he just painting like my toddler does? Sincerely asking.

Listen I grew up in south africa you don't have a clue little western mind 😂😂😂😂 stop it leave him alone black power

Great video