Art questions November 2022

 

Q: What does mainstream success mean to you?

A: It shouldn't be the starting point.

You start with ideas and artistic motives. Your job is to notice what is missing. Creative success involves risk-taking and raising the bar.

The current mainstream is not good at that. You can't do that if you're just brainwashed by some algorithm, chasing numbers and worshipping information.

It's time to fight back. Unknown artists are considered worthless now. It's not about reviving the old underground, we need a new one.

The new creative underground is the answer. This is the real long term commitment. I am not just repeating instant gratification.

Burn out to ignite

Maanpako - Exile

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2022.
Drawing 410.

Perääntymätön - Unremitting

 

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2022.
Drawing 409.

Movie titles of Get Out franchise revealed

Sequel: Get Out

Second sequel: Get Out

Third sequel: Get Out

Fourth sequel: Didn't You Fucking Hear Me the First Time?

Prequel: Get Out Like a Sex Machine

Final instalment: Get the Fuck Out of Town

(The one where everything is explained)

Kenen suulla - With Whose Mouth

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2022.  

Drawing 408.

Creativity is not a luxury

 

Some infantile attention whores threw tomato soup at Vincent Van Gogh's sunflower painting. This is not the way to fight anything.

You can call yourself an activist and still be the dumbest person on the planet. It doesn't prove anything. These kids who call themselves informed obviously don't know anything about Van Gogh's life.

Every human culture has creativity. We can not be separated from it. There's always some clueless idiot asking "do we really need art?"

We are the only species talking about the climate. We shouldn't forget ourselves and the atmosphere down here.

Do we need to be human? What do you do when you feel hopeless? Those are my questions. No wonder they're feeling hopeless living in this soulless creativity-free idiocracy.

These infantile self-hating morons are the real pretentious assholes.

Art questions October 2022

 

Q: Do you read philosophy?

A: Not that much. Creative writing is more interesting to me. I love classic short stories from Chekhov, Maupassant, Poe, Hoffmann, Kafka and Bradbury.

You don't have to bury yourself in philosophy books in order to seem intelligent. Some philosophers may have inspired me in terms of ideas, but that has to do with creativity.

Five albums to be released next year

 

Starting in January 2023, I will be releasing an album each month. The details will be announced later. All five were recorded in 2022.

After the 25th release, the pace will slow down significantly.

Äiti - Mother

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2022. 

Drawing 407.

Art questions September 2022

 

Q: What do you think about movie reaction channels?

A: Mildly amusing at best.

The number one problem with reaction channels is that the people lack experience. The whole thing is backwards. You're supposed to spend your life doing these things. You don't need Patreon for that. The reaction idea is very limited because the people have been limiting themselves.

Anyone can be a smart-ass. It's the easiest thing in the world. And if you just have a checklist, you're going to miss everything that is not in that list.

Personality-driven is a confused term. We need imagination, experience, curiosity, creativity and critical thinking. All these qualities should be part of your personality.

Channels like Cinema Rules are a symptom. All they do is sit on their lazy asses, spew childish drivel and give you a worthless instant "review". You don't get insight from arrogant buffoons like Cinema Arseholes.

I'm not trashing all reaction channels. This is my criticism as someone who's a genuine movie buff. We should be more honest about how much we make fun of these channels.

I have made specific top 50 lists throughout the years. Black-and-white films, Italian films and so on. Those are short lists. That's what happens when you're a movie buff.

Night of the Seven Suns is out now

 

1. Between Two Old Trees
2. Thundering Cascade
3. Foghorns of the Owls in the Night
4. Farther Into the Wilds
5. Spirit of the Forest
6. From Mere Stone
7. Land of Winter Twilight

Night of the Seven Suns is my 20th album and it was inspired by material I wrote 20 years ago. It is similar to my first album released in 2012.

Night of the Seven Suns is also a 1966 photo book by Matti A. Pitkänen. It portrays a year in the wilds of Kuusamo. Titles on the album were taken from the book. Original Finnish texts by Airi Hast. This album is dedicated to the memory of Matti A. Pitkänen.

August 27, 2022 is The Day of Finnish Nature.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH-YCiyh-EY

https://rintaperala.bandcamp.com/

Listen to others...

 

Valkoinen lippu - White Flag

 

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2022. 

Drawing 406.

Fascism shall perish

 

"Now I'm expecting all of you to volunteer for Waffen-SS. Or is there someone among you who doesn't want to volunteer?"
- Unknown SS officer (from Guido Knopp's Hitlers Kinder)

"The meanings of words are not in the words; they are in us."
- S. I. Hayakawa: Language in Thought and Action

Maanviljelijä - Farmer

 

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2022. 

Drawing 405.