From Noah Kalina’s latest video, “I Hope You Like Photography (Hotline 47):”
I was out taking pictures and I made a picture that I really like. I was working on it and I was like, “This is so good.” And I was like, “What am I going to do with this?”
My natural inclination is to want to post it on the internet, but why? I almost feel like it’s embarrassing to post things on the internet now.
Like, no one likes it, being on the internet. So why would I take something that I like and put it somewhere that no one likes? No one wants to be. Everyone’s trying to avoid. People are trying to spend less time there. And here I am with something that I feel good about, putting it in a place like that – why would you do that?
If that was like a real place and it was like, “oh, you can have a show, but it’s in this room and it’s cursed and everyone who enters the room hates themselves. Feel free to put your art up.”
Why would you do that? You wouldn’t. But here we are posting on the internet.
I said this for years regarding Twitter – why would I want to post on that platform when what I write could sit right between gossip and drama and assorted bullshit?
It’s like what Noah mentions – you can post your artwork, but it’s on a platform where everybody is trying to look away, to spend less time.
Posting our work on those platforms feels we’re polishing the brass on the sinking Titanic. The work we do there will have zero lasting impact. Abandon ship while you can, and figure out another way to stay in touch with friends and family.