Black Bucket Essays
Volume 1, Issue 4
What if there is no next new thing? Do we sit around and mourn the fact that we've seen it before? There's a way to look at creativity that doesn't necessarily have to do with creating something we've never seen before. It can be about reinterpreting or misinterpreting the world that's already around us.
- LAURA HOPTMAN
Leah Cooper
a small sampling in no particular, but not exactly random order.
the now
minimalism
postminimalism
modernism
postmodernism
impressionism
post impressionism
realism
new realism
dadaism
neo-dada
neo-premitivism
neoclassicism
neomodernism
neoplasticism
neo-expressionism
Constructivism
deconstructivism
and now
the Altermodern,
complete with its own Altermodern manifesto
smelling a bit like postmodernism, which according to the manifest, ‘is coming to an end’.
and so,
What if there is no next new thing?
“An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.”
― Stephen Fry
“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”
― Abraham Lincoln
Do we sit around and mourn?
“There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.”
― Marie Antoinette
“All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Must we ‘create’ something that’s never been seen?
“Only those with no memory insist on their originality.”
― Coco Chanel
“Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.”
― James Stephens
Is originality about reinterpreting or misinterpreting the world around us?
“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.”
― Mary Shelley
“All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.”
― Mae West, Wit & Wisdom of Mae West
Am I cheating my way through this essay?
“A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers
“Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.”
― James Stephens
Is there hope?
“I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand,
that Joplin had the last drunken throat,
that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.”
― Patti Smith
“Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.”
― Paul Rand
ever the optimist
I will end with other’s original thoughts that sum up my thoughts on ‘new things’.
“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning."
―T.S Eliot
“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
― Kurt Vonnegut
Volume 1, Issue 4
What if there is no next new thing? Do we sit around and mourn the fact that we've seen it before? There's a way to look at creativity that doesn't necessarily have to do with creating something we've never seen before. It can be about reinterpreting or misinterpreting the world that's already around us.
- LAURA HOPTMAN
Leah Cooper
a small sampling in no particular, but not exactly random order.
the now
minimalism
postminimalism
modernism
postmodernism
impressionism
post impressionism
realism
new realism
dadaism
neo-dada
neo-premitivism
neoclassicism
neomodernism
neoplasticism
neo-expressionism
Constructivism
deconstructivism
and now
the Altermodern,
complete with its own Altermodern manifesto
smelling a bit like postmodernism, which according to the manifest, ‘is coming to an end’.
and so,
What if there is no next new thing?
“An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.”
― Stephen Fry
“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”
― Abraham Lincoln
Do we sit around and mourn?
“There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.”
― Marie Antoinette
“All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Must we ‘create’ something that’s never been seen?
“Only those with no memory insist on their originality.”
― Coco Chanel
“Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.”
― James Stephens
Is originality about reinterpreting or misinterpreting the world around us?
“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.”
― Mary Shelley
“All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.”
― Mae West, Wit & Wisdom of Mae West
Am I cheating my way through this essay?
“A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers
“Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.”
― James Stephens
Is there hope?
“I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand,
that Joplin had the last drunken throat,
that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.”
― Patti Smith
“Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.”
― Paul Rand
ever the optimist
I will end with other’s original thoughts that sum up my thoughts on ‘new things’.
“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning."
―T.S Eliot
“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
― Kurt Vonnegut
