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Re: http://darkdaze.tumblr.com/post/742663321

RJD2 — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:46:02 -0000

So...What are you trying to achieve then, what is it all about, or is it just a 5DMKII test. It's a girl dancing around for far too long? Work should say something, inspire, cause some kind of emotion and feeling. I feel it's a girl just dancing around. Oooh. It's me. Wanky Wank...

Re: http://darkdaze.tumblr.com/post/749500801

RJD2 — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:45:42 -0000

If you want discussion then why lock the comments? Okay. I am not ranting and it is an opinion which you possibly can't handle. I don't mean to be unconstructive. I am simply saying what I repeatedly see in your work, and see in this piece. Things don't have to say something but they (I feel) have to evoke something in the viewer apart from ambivilance. To say I feel nothing is actually something is ridiculous. I don't hate it, I don't like it, I see it as a bit of a waste of time. I feel nothing. With Lynch at least I can walk away confused and wondering, obivously non of us are lynch. I don't look for meaning in every photography. I look for some kind of inspiration, something that causes me to feel something, an idea, a thought, an action or just to go that is bloody amazing.

Granted, it is only my opinion and who am I, but you are clearly trying to do attain some goal. If it was just a 9min test, I could actually forgive you for that.

It's an attempt at an art house piece. If anything you could have an open discussion about it, because I, the viewer, although may have not said what you wanted to hear, or wrapped it up in cotton wool for you am your audience and I gave you my thoughts. It's self indulgence, with no point, and you are right not everything has to have a point but there is point in everything a person does.

So what was yours and how do you feel about it, and when you look at it, what does it say to you?

9mins Maaaan. 9Mins of what is basically a girl dancing around. I don't think there is anything else to explain?

Check out Lynch Darkened Room & I leave you with that..

Re: http://darkdaze.tumblr.com/post/749500801

RJD2 — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:26:41 -0000

I repeated myself (which I have a habit of doing) purely because I wanted to express my thoughts without the wanky wank stuff, which as you mentioned and I took on board is not constructive but it's what I felt at the time.

Maybe you don't want to explain yourself, but there is something behind this idea you've had. The title, the direction, the music, the idea. What is it that you want the viewer to feel because that is what it's all about when directing. Making the viewer feel a certain something at a certain point in time?

And don't say, does it have to mean something, because it clearly does and I seem to be missing the point. It's a girl dancing for 9mins, that is it? I even looked at it again but alas nothing. This is the problem I have with a lot of your work, techinically it might be great but it has no soul. It's an opinion and you should know it doesn't matter, because if I was happy with my own work, that's all that matters and that's all that should to you.

If you just wanted to film a girl dancing then you should say so?

This is art or art as I see it. It is someones vision to be interpreted in it's entirety or to have many meanings to each viewer.

What do I think I know of this girl. Nothing, Why? Because I didn't care enough, why didn't I care, because all I saw was a girl dancing. It seems purely self indulgent.

Im sorry man, I am trying to see the point, I really am.. There maybe others that lap this up, but I am always going to question and challenge your work..

Re: http://darkdaze.tumblr.com/post/845566930

RJD2 — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:31:11 -0000

Well done to you. I wasn't a big fan of the vanity project either, thought it was something about nothing, but there you go probably proved a lot of people wrong. Just for the record anything you do do that earns you money should all be about being ABLE to do the personal work, there is no point otherwise...