When the world is burning, is art a waste of time? | R. Alan Brooks | TEDxMileHigh
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
- It was the eve of the 2016 election, his friends were protesting in the street, and R. Alan Brooks wanted to write a graphic novel. Was he being vain? Self-indulgent? In this inspiring talk, Alan explains why activism needs your art. Art can scare a dictator and change the world. R. Alan Brooks teaches writing for Regis University’s MFA program and the Lighthouse Writers Workshop. He created & wrote the graphic novels, “The Burning Metronome” and “Anguish Garden,” and hosts the popular “MotherF**ker In A Cape” Podcast, which focuses on marginalized members of the geek world. He writes a weekly comic, “What’d I Miss?,” for The Colorado Sun, and has written comic books for Pop Culture Classroom & Zenescope Entertainment. Alan is a musician and stage host, regularly emceeing events like the DINK Awards Show & Arise Music Festival. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
I started my youtube animation channel one month ago, “while the world is burning” and I can say it has been worth it for my own mental health, and hopefully it can inspire others and help people with their mental health too. Thank you for this TED Talk! It’s such a good message that artists need to hear. Too often, we are discouraged by well-intentioned folk.
Thomas Merton. “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
Guys the movie is wonderful! Taking the opportunity, I humbly ask those who are reading this comment to write on my channel, my biggest dream is to have a thousand writings. I make videos on different themes, a speaker will come. Come with me, help me build that dream. Thank you very much in advance ❤👆
I really needed this right now
Guys the movie is wonderful! Taking the opportunity, I humbly ask those who are reading this comment to write on my channel, my biggest dream is to have a thousand writings. I make videos on different themes, a speaker will come. Come with me, help me build that dream. Thank you very much in advance 💧👏🙏
Me too, big time
it was so painful to see that art workers were declared non essential...
I agree with you. I suffered from COVID and had pneumonia in both lungs in April and May - and when I see that I survived and others did not, what kept my spirit up was art. I was watching ballet right here on TH-cam and it took me out of the hole of depression COVID put me in. Art made me mentally healthy again. I don't think people realize how important mental health is.
@@TheBurgessNetwork so glad you recovered! and your testimonial brought tears to my eyes!
I have been an artist my entire life so I know the value, the importance of art. Artists and poets have been activists and revolutionaries for centuries. I don't know why this popped up on my feed but I have been thinking all year how much I want to quit my "important" job and write full time. Something that he did. Wow!
make art! scare a dictator! 👍🏻
That was beautifully spoken sentiment. Power to the artists!
awesome...AND my deepest apologies for any violence my ancestors and current race has inflicted/inflicts on your race...YOU ARE AWESOME DUDE...
I cannot tell you how powerful this talk was for me, thank you so much
Thank you for you bravery! You stepped out of the box and created the good for many people! I love you story💖
Writing poetry has definitely helped me to express my intense emotions in the midst of the burning.
Wonderful ! My artistry IS my life. Thanxxxxx.
Sooo good my friend. Inspiring and well spoken my brother.
"If art really has no power, and it's really a silly waste of time, then why are dictators afraid of it?
Art is powerful.
Art is important.
Art can change hearts and minds all across the world."
creativity is what links us to our divinity 🤍 it’s all we have to keep the love going
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Loved this. His voice as an artist is an example of the power that creative expression has. I agree with what he stated even more so at the end. Art is needed now more than ever to positively impact as many minds as possible.
This video comes with perfect timing. I’m working on my own art to share with the world and I take this as a sign I’m on the right path.
Thank you for this speech, it’s very moving to me.
Good vibes to your ongoing creations, keep em up.
Art is one of the ways society deals with social change and injustice. Comics are a wonderful venue for this. Anything is possible in art but not so much in the real world. In art if you can imagine it it can happen. Great commentary is possible to the artist! Power to the artists!
Im a Filipina BFA graduate 😉 and the only thing I said in Filipino when I finished this was:
"Ang Ganda!" which means: "Beautiful or Perfect"
TED thank God your chanell exists especially in this pandemic your videos serve as water for me in a hot summer 120 degrees day
Thank you for sharing this 😘
Spoiler: No. The world desperately needs more art.
It's too bad we can't reassure your parents, all these years later, that the world is a safer place for you. thanks for the talk
Art is never a waste of time!
Thank you, sir! Artistry and activism go hand in hand, and fiction is a way of knowing, not a synonym of lying.
Way to go, man, way to go!!! The best Ted talk this year! All the best to you!
“You will never follow your own inner voice until you clear up the doubts in your mind.”
― Roy T. Bennett
good to see you making out a case in favour of the power of Art. Thanks,Alan.
Art is powerful ❤️
Great talk Alan!
Wow. That was a beautiful speech.
(various forms of) Art engages people's emotions. Emotions are complex yet even people with lower IQ understand or at least act how they feel about things. So emotions > reasoning/thinking.
This is why art has power.
Billy Joel said the fire has always been burning since the world's been turning.
In that case, there has never been a good time for art.
thanks
Beautiful talk.
Inspirational!
BREHH!! Congrats!!
This spoke to me deeply. Good job!👍🏽
I love from Turkey ❤️
Guys the movie is wonderful! Taking the opportunity, I humbly ask those who are reading this comment to write on my channel, my biggest dream is to have a thousand writings. I make videos on different themes, a speaker will come. Come with me, help me build that dream. Thank you very much in advance 👆🙏👆
@ I looked at his channel but it could be better if there is subtitle support
Looking forward to this ☺️
Guys the movie is wonderful! Taking the opportunity, I humbly ask those who are reading this comment to write on my channel, my biggest dream is to have a thousand writings. I make videos on different themes, a speaker will come. Come with me, help me build that dream. Thank you very much in advance ❤🙏❤
beautiful. thank you
So interesting and inspiring! I feel this came to me at the right time. :)
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Thanks for this Alan. The whole, "Is this vanity?" question is one I have to beat back on a regular basis. My answer is to keep creating. Keep creating, keep creating, keep on creating.
Inspiring, Alan! Thank you for sharing your wisdom and art with the world.
art is art.. keep making it!👍
“Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.”
― Jon Krakauer
Narrative of Self is the result of a feedback loop between “Separate Self” & Cosmos ⭕️
yes
Inspiring
Whosoever is reading my comment may ur parent live 100 yrs
True blessings!!
Guys the movie is wonderful! Taking the opportunity, I humbly ask those who are reading this comment to write on my channel, my biggest dream is to have a thousand writings. I make videos on different themes, a speaker will come. Come with me, help me build that dream. Thank you very much in advance
@ like write a comment or what? Im lost but ill do it just dont understand
@ everything is in your hands 🙏👍
Sadly, this is not just in the case of one race, but all races. We all were told by “well intentioned” adults whom passed on the very same things they were taught.
At the base, it’s all fear based. We were all taught to stay away from water when young. Why?
Our loved ones feared our drowning. Yet we were all born able to...so why is that?
Power to the artists🦾
Time cannot be wasted. It spends itself without your consent. You can make wise decisions, or foolish decisions, but time is not yours to spend. Hence, nothing you do can really be a waste of time. If art can propel you forward, it is a wise decision. If it cannot, it is folly.
Yah baby
It is so weird without the audience
An impressive report; a very good storie that all the peoples have to listen
Title: Is art a waste of time?
Me, who just learned how to draw: Goddamn it
Please help me also how can I learn drawing .
@@ramanujanfan5530 I mainly started by copying drawing I found online, I would look at the picture before trying to redraw it and then advanced towards trying to draw it of head and then tried to draw on my own. I then started actually getting serious about it and started to research, and learned about sketching and how to draw a human body by sketching it and then moved to actually drawing them before starting with shading and details. I also recommend learning each part of the human body separately, ik it's a very slow and annoying task but hey, it'll all be worth it when you look at your first proper drawing, nothing can even come close to the satisfaction of complete your first drawing. Hope this helps and stay safe!
@@terriblename4084 Good and I am pleased to know your shared experiences . Take care be safe
You know something, it’s scientifically been studied that music, art, and nature are visibly read to heal us?
Art is in us and creating is in us all for a reason.
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So handsome! 🙏🙏🙏
This man is js grt
That's what I'm talking about u know what i mean
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Werner Von Braun grew up reading Jules Verne. And he went on to build rockets for America
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I guess everything else then art is waste of time while the world is burning 😉
Cómo me salgo de esto no lo quiero
Guys the movie is wonderful! Taking the opportunity, I humbly ask those who are reading this comment to write on my channel, my biggest dream is to have a thousand writings. I make videos on different themes, a speaker will come. Come with me, help me build that dream. Thank you very much in advance 🎊
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Guys the movie is wonderful! Taking the opportunity, I humbly ask those who are reading this comment to write on my channel, my biggest dream is to have a thousand writings. I make videos on different themes, a speaker will come. Come with me, help me build that dream. Thank you very much ❤❤❤
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The earths burning and we’re talking about if art is a waste of time. Lmaooo.
Then we'll all do, with the force of the masses.
Yes, it’s not a waste of time just if ppl are willing to pay for it.
i.e if they've proper respect for it and appreciation, which only comes from personally knowing the hassle and hardwork that goes into creating a work of art. What we see in a minute is a year long of consistent effort.
The world revolves around art forms nonetheless, like cinema, music. But the demand of an art form and its creation comes down to what the lazy mortals consume more.
Oh geez I don’t know... is breathing a waste of time?... duh 🙄
Ok thats good for you that you got all this , but ive been a few years out of art college and i still have nothing
Don’t view it as nothing. Just don’t quit on it even if it never brings you money or fame. If you enjoy the process of whatever you are creating then that’s enough. The rest is just a bonus.
@@etiennevcr9276 i dont care much about fame but in this society you have to make at least a couple hundreds a month just to barely barely survive , ide be homeless rn if it werent for my parents which is totally emmbarressing
@@MapleStarBlitz well what I’ll say to that is to not be embarrassed about being over the roof of your parents that they are willingly providing you. If they being able to support your journey then just be as grateful as you can be by helping them out in anything you can. But don’t view it as a failure or embarrassment. Trust me, many people including myself wish we could have that support that we don’t have not necessarily because they didn’t want to but because maybe they couldn’t. So if you have the luck to be helped out by people in order to keep pursuing your passion, then keep at it without being hard on yourself. Use all your energy to continue developing your creativity.
@@etiennevcr9276 thanks you saying that helped me feel alittle better, so thanks 😊
@@MapleStarBlitz Good to hear 😌 well good to read 😆
There's Islamophobia because there's unislamophobia.
wow a lot of people replyed in less than a second
Guys the movie is wonderful! Taking the opportunity, I humbly ask those who are reading this comment to write on my channel, my biggest dream is to have a thousand writings. I make videos on different themes, a speaker will come. Come with me, help me build that dream. Thank you very much in advance 👑
@ you mean commenting on your videos?
Everyone i know with a Fine Arts degree work as bartenders, call centers, retail, etc.
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I was first to comment untill I refressed😅
Ohh you poor first baby... Wah wah wah. Nobody ever cares who's first and everyone who posts that looks like a codependent needy baby.! Please take heed!
when the world is burning art is a waste of time. SO TRUE! but I still love comic books.
It is a wast of Time. Common
Uhhh
No