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Re: Thought I'd leave this here.

Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2017 2:42 pm
by rktic
terryfalafel wrote:For the record, I wouldn't have made a remark except for the fact that the creators of these pieces have branded themselves as capable of giving 'Design Advice'.
To provide you a little bit of background: the piece Stacie posted has been culminated over something like a decade. And while you might be right that it looks like merely bland motivational crap from a distance, the tiny pieces of wisdom posted around here might have a similar appeal for those outside this box.

Very often, we forget the most simple things when we're stuck somewhere. And those reminders are less about novelty than perspective.

Re: Thought I'd leave this here.

Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2017 2:54 pm
by Lost to the Void
rktic wrote:
[wesellboxes] wrote:Remove the swearing and it's the same "motivational" shite you'll find on the wall of a call centre.
Yet many of those posting questions around here strive more for perfection than anything else. Maybe this just isn't adressed at you.
I think you can strive for perfection, and there is nothing wrong with that, but you just accept that perfection is diaphanous, ethereal.

It`s like the Tao, you can reach for it, but never grasp it, because it is beyond definition.

I think it`s fine to strive for perfection, just don`t become obsessed with your desire for it. Desire is the source of all pain etc. Striving for excellence is just the same, a different word, same thing.
It`s the journey, not the destination, take time to enjoy the journey.

“If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

The tao that can be told
is not the eternal Tao
The name that can be named
is not the eternal Name.

The unnamable is the eternally real.
Naming is the origin
of all particular things.

Free from desire, you realize the mystery.
Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.

Yet mystery and manifestations
arise from the same source.
This source is called darkness.

Darkness within darkness.
The gateway to all understanding.

Tao Te Ching

Re: Thought I'd leave this here.

Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2017 2:56 pm
by [wesellboxes]
Perfect swearing

youtu.be/RVoPdnZzKbM

Re: Thought I'd leave this here.

Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2017 3:01 pm
by rktic
Lost to the Void wrote:I think you can strive for perfection, and there is nothing wrong with that, but you just accept that perfection is diaphanous, ethereal.

It`s like the Tao, you can reach for it, but never grasp it, because it is beyond definition.

I think it`s fine to strive for perfection, just don`t become obsessed with your desire for it. Desire is the source of all pain etc. Striving for excellence is just the same, a different word, same thing.
It`s the journey, not the destination, take time to enjoy the journey.

“If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

The tao that can be told
is not the eternal Tao
The name that can be named
is not the eternal Name.

The unnamable is the eternally real.
Naming is the origin
of all particular things.

Free from desire, you realize the mystery.
Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.

Yet mystery and manifestations
arise from the same source.
This source is called darkness.

Darkness within darkness.
The gateway to all understanding.

Tao Te Ching
Oh, I like that.

With perfection in this context I mean trying to obtain something beyond ones scope of technical or artistical skill. Hopefully, that's more clear.

Re: Thought I'd leave this here.

Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2017 5:23 pm
by Mslwte
StacieAnne wrote:Also another good one from that company...

Image
now replace the word "fucking", with the word cunting. :D

Re: Thought I'd leave this here.

Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2017 9:51 pm
by terryfalafel
rktic wrote:
terryfalafel wrote:For the record, I wouldn't have made a remark except for the fact that the creators of these pieces have branded themselves as capable of giving 'Design Advice'.
To provide you a little bit of background: the piece Stacie posted has been culminated over something like a decade. And while you might be right that it looks like merely bland motivational crap from a distance, the tiny pieces of wisdom posted around here might have a similar appeal for those outside this box.
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Hmm, I maintain that it's a modern version of Renton's 'Choose Life' speech intended for the bedroom walls of undergraduate design students from the internet generation.

I'm happy we see it differently though. I appreciate your insights and occasional provocations on this forum, plenty of which are often only tangentially connected to music production. Your posts always make me think :-)

Re: Thought I'd leave this here.

Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2017 1:21 am
by [Ø]
Platitudes

Re: Thought I'd leave this here.

Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2017 7:59 am
by Mattias
[Ø] wrote:Platitudes
THIS is a platitude.

Re: Thought I'd leave this here.

Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2017 8:36 am
by rktic
terryfalafel wrote: Hmm, I maintain that it's a modern version of Renton's 'Choose Life' speech intended for the bedroom walls of undergraduate design students from the internet generation.

I'm happy we see it differently though. I appreciate your insights and occasional provocations on this forum, plenty of which are often only tangentially connected to music production. Your posts always make me think :-)
In the end, it's my kind of humor. Didn't expect the amount of interpretations :)

And thank you very, very much for your feedback! Never sure if my intention is resonating somewhere or I'm just annoying the fuck out of folks.
[Ø] wrote:Platitudes
Not the man of many words, are you?

Re: Thought I'd leave this here.

Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2017 12:50 am
by [Ø]
No

Re: Thought I'd leave this here.

Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2017 5:11 pm
by SFBM
Nice bit of inspiration

Re: Thought I'd leave this here.

Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2017 5:48 pm
by sergiobR1
I don't believe in perfection.

But I like the way that those advices goes.


Follow your intuition

Wander,
Question.
Find your
Obsession.
Knowledge,
Beckons.
Find your
Obsession

Question everything you know

Re: Thought I'd leave this here.

Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2017 5:45 am
by Twilitez
wayfinder wrote:I am always skeptical of advice that de-emphasizes outside factors and leans heavy on self-reliance, grit and "just fucking working on it"

that shit creates

a) unrealistic expectations of possible outcomes
b) a warped image of what factors actually drive success and how much you can do about them
c) additional anxiety over being somehow at fault for everything that goes wrong because if you were putting in enough effort, the facebook memes have explained that, things wouldn't go wrong. you lazy moron.
In total agreement with this.

Coming from some backwards village will always have you at a disadvantage. I dont even want to get into the whole 'producers need to be DJ's' and how an aversion to the social media shitshow has you at a disadvantage as opposed to the creative sociopathic storytellers. Everyone has a multiple decade rich jazz background and shit, and is some kind of prodigy. Its fucking ridiculous.

Im not not gonna preach solutions or bedroom wisdom but i have observed a few things in all this 'jazz' so far and while internet brought unlimited availibilty of music it also enabled ego's across the globe and muddied the waters in a rather grand fashion.

Re: Thought I'd leave this here.

Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2017 6:50 am
by Hades
Twilitez wrote:
wayfinder wrote:I am always skeptical of advice that de-emphasizes outside factors and leans heavy on self-reliance, grit and "just fucking working on it"

that shit creates

a) unrealistic expectations of possible outcomes
b) a warped image of what factors actually drive success and how much you can do about them
c) additional anxiety over being somehow at fault for everything that goes wrong because if you were putting in enough effort, the facebook memes have explained that, things wouldn't go wrong. you lazy moron.
In total agreement with this.

Coming from some backwards village will always have you at a disadvantage. I dont even want to get into the whole 'producers need to be DJ's' and how an aversion to the social media shitshow has you at a disadvantage as opposed to the creative sociopathic storytellers. Everyone has a multiple decade rich jazz background and shit, and is some kind of prodigy. Its fucking ridiculous.

Im not not gonna preach solutions or bedroom wisdom but i have observed a few things in all this 'jazz' so far and while internet brought unlimited availibilty of music it also enabled ego's across the globe and muddied the waters in a rather grand fashion.
couldn't agree more.

as I once read on someone's SC :
3rd person biographies are for douchebags !
:lol: