Two things I've been consuming recently:
#KimGordon's Girl in a Band #Book and I watched the one-off #TV show Bottom: Exposed.
Both Kim and Adrian Edmonson talk about being young and new to their particular craft and not knowing what they were doing. Kim it's music, Adrian it's writing for TV.
But this is a common thing for many creative people. In fact, the act of learning is to give it a go and see what comes out.
I don't know about art school nowadays but when I was at art school we weren't really taught techniques all that much. Much of creativity has for a long time been: do what you want and when something good happens, develop it.
There are techniques in any media that give you desired results. But there are also new and unexplored techniques waiting to be discovered. I think in art school they perhaps encourage you to embrace the I-don't-know-what-the-fuck-I'm-doing thing and I think a lot of artists are naturally confident about lacking technical and professional skills.
But having said they didn't know what they were doing, both Kim's and Adrian's work feels like they really did know what they were doing. And I guess that's really about their confidence in what they were producing - and the confidence of the people they were working with.
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#writing #TV #Music #SonicYouth