you know at school the often made an
effort to foster our urges to encourage
us to be uncreated is where they handed
out musical instruments and demanded you
stop drumming classes where I danced
awkwardly once or twice even if my feet
and fingers demand movement when a song
is played but while you were there
did you ever make one thing where you
thought you touched something real one
painting one poem one page from one
notebook maybe you never showed anyone
those pieces sucked didn’t they
amateurish cliched and embarrassingly
unabashedly stupidly honest the great
lesson I’ve learned from doing this the
more honest I am the more vulnerable the
more people seem to understand it’s the
insane secret to be honest about my
insanity seems to make sense and once
you do you’re free to spread the joy by
making and I’m not talking about
classical paintings I’m talking about an
Instagram account with filters bright as
the dopey smiles you were gifted with
this year I’m talking about cute kitten
pictures worthy of 10000 likes saving
the days of depressed strangers on the
other side of the world I’m saying at
the Wikipedia moderate a website fix the
prequels by writing fanfiction because
we’re all in this together now all of us
finally connected by the internet and lo
we have come so far our online worlds
now include dragons having sex with cars
people that like elevators so much they
review them entire channels dedicated to
crushing objects with a hydraulic press
but screen names they don’t seem fit to
stand in the same sentence as
Michelangelo or Shakespeare even if more
people have been rickrolled than have
read Titus Andronicus and maybe we don’t
the world up completely with AI
nanotech and climate change maybe we’ll
still be left with the words of our most
honest prophets telling their billions
of future listeners whether they like it
or not by friends and enemies those holy
words that I will pass on by that fire
haired man who will never give you up
never let you down never turn around and
desert you he’s immortal now he’ll never
have to say goodbye and hurt you
yeah I don’t know about art clearly it’s
porn art videogames Rick and Morty
PewDiePie
I want to meet the jazz enthusiast who’s
second love is mashups I want to find
the art history buff who curates his own
private hentai collection
I want the otaku’s to be elevated the
rabid fans of comic books the Marvel
Cinematic Universe could extort ikkyu
late themselves in public because I
suspect that maybe there’s another truth
then in spite of all this anger posted
on all these walls this hatred we still
all laugh at the same Photoshop
paintings read the indie book authors
whose blog butts become movies see the
reddit stories posted we love to make
our own art especially when you forget
your lines and when you do sometimes the
best thing is to completely improvised
until it comes back to you which is what
I’m going to try and do for the next 20
seconds because there’s a lot of themes
to what I was doing it was to do with
Rick rolling the entire audience I told
myself I did that once I would be okay
and I did so that’s all right there’s
something about art wasn’t it it’s
important yeah I was worried this would
happen alright give me a second oh yes
oh I got it oh yeah okay we still laugh
at the Photoshop paintings the Redditt
posted stories the indie book authors
whose blocks become movies find the
Monday night drone enthusiasts who dress
up as lawyers we were made to create
especially the depressed the ones that
forget their lines the closeted the
bipolars the borderline suicides who
stand their ground give a middle finger
taller than the city’s tallest
skyscraper and say with poetry story or
song that something is so very wrong or
at the very least that you aren’t alone
remember that piano you played in high
school you can learn to make
stained-glass windows your creations in
Minecraft or craft games we’re playing
by learning to code we make fun of
hashtags
we each have galleries on our phones and
we love to see each other’s work we live
in the age of art and yes the age of
noise but also the age of signal and we
could stop pretending we could reveal
that besides your daytime instruction
taking your storyteller waiting to
happen a photographer in your spare time
you craft custom cityscapes and your
video games plan is full of
rollercoasters we are
the weekend content creators because
goddamnit mad as it is we are hydrogen
made conscious so record a podcast join
the course because we got to keep saying
I’ve got to remind each other the stupid
show a planet between birth and
heartbreak and love and death goddamnit
you got to be kind say it every way you
know how celebrate life they say that
you’re so boring
you’re a Friday night binge watcher a
poker face robot collect your
manga man learn something new share your
truth leave one honors for view YouTube
out a sketch we’ve ground my sweater let
yourself be viewed you’ll find that that
stupid insane secret is true for you too
our minds are 100 billion neurons
unrivaled in the known universe so
goddamn it look outside so much
suffering so much pain in the face of
all this madness I demand it create
[Applause]
you
effort to foster our urges to encourage
us to be uncreated is where they handed
out musical instruments and demanded you
stop drumming classes where I danced
awkwardly once or twice even if my feet
and fingers demand movement when a song
is played but while you were there
did you ever make one thing where you
thought you touched something real one
painting one poem one page from one
notebook maybe you never showed anyone
those pieces sucked didn’t they
amateurish cliched and embarrassingly
unabashedly stupidly honest the great
lesson I’ve learned from doing this the
more honest I am the more vulnerable the
more people seem to understand it’s the
insane secret to be honest about my
insanity seems to make sense and once
you do you’re free to spread the joy by
making and I’m not talking about
classical paintings I’m talking about an
Instagram account with filters bright as
the dopey smiles you were gifted with
this year I’m talking about cute kitten
pictures worthy of 10000 likes saving
the days of depressed strangers on the
other side of the world I’m saying at
the Wikipedia moderate a website fix the
prequels by writing fanfiction because
we’re all in this together now all of us
finally connected by the internet and lo
we have come so far our online worlds
now include dragons having sex with cars
people that like elevators so much they
review them entire channels dedicated to
crushing objects with a hydraulic press
but screen names they don’t seem fit to
stand in the same sentence as
Michelangelo or Shakespeare even if more
people have been rickrolled than have
read Titus Andronicus and maybe we don’t
the world up completely with AI
nanotech and climate change maybe we’ll
still be left with the words of our most
honest prophets telling their billions
of future listeners whether they like it
or not by friends and enemies those holy
words that I will pass on by that fire
haired man who will never give you up
never let you down never turn around and
desert you he’s immortal now he’ll never
have to say goodbye and hurt you
yeah I don’t know about art clearly it’s
porn art videogames Rick and Morty
PewDiePie
I want to meet the jazz enthusiast who’s
second love is mashups I want to find
the art history buff who curates his own
private hentai collection
I want the otaku’s to be elevated the
rabid fans of comic books the Marvel
Cinematic Universe could extort ikkyu
late themselves in public because I
suspect that maybe there’s another truth
then in spite of all this anger posted
on all these walls this hatred we still
all laugh at the same Photoshop
paintings read the indie book authors
whose blog butts become movies see the
reddit stories posted we love to make
our own art especially when you forget
your lines and when you do sometimes the
best thing is to completely improvised
until it comes back to you which is what
I’m going to try and do for the next 20
seconds because there’s a lot of themes
to what I was doing it was to do with
Rick rolling the entire audience I told
myself I did that once I would be okay
and I did so that’s all right there’s
something about art wasn’t it it’s
important yeah I was worried this would
happen alright give me a second oh yes
oh I got it oh yeah okay we still laugh
at the Photoshop paintings the Redditt
posted stories the indie book authors
whose blocks become movies find the
Monday night drone enthusiasts who dress
up as lawyers we were made to create
especially the depressed the ones that
forget their lines the closeted the
bipolars the borderline suicides who
stand their ground give a middle finger
taller than the city’s tallest
skyscraper and say with poetry story or
song that something is so very wrong or
at the very least that you aren’t alone
remember that piano you played in high
school you can learn to make
stained-glass windows your creations in
Minecraft or craft games we’re playing
by learning to code we make fun of
hashtags
we each have galleries on our phones and
we love to see each other’s work we live
in the age of art and yes the age of
noise but also the age of signal and we
could stop pretending we could reveal
that besides your daytime instruction
taking your storyteller waiting to
happen a photographer in your spare time
you craft custom cityscapes and your
video games plan is full of
rollercoasters we are
the weekend content creators because
goddamnit mad as it is we are hydrogen
made conscious so record a podcast join
the course because we got to keep saying
I’ve got to remind each other the stupid
show a planet between birth and
heartbreak and love and death goddamnit
you got to be kind say it every way you
know how celebrate life they say that
you’re so boring
you’re a Friday night binge watcher a
poker face robot collect your
manga man learn something new share your
truth leave one honors for view YouTube
out a sketch we’ve ground my sweater let
yourself be viewed you’ll find that that
stupid insane secret is true for you too
our minds are 100 billion neurons
unrivaled in the known universe so
goddamn it look outside so much
suffering so much pain in the face of
all this madness I demand it create
[Applause]
you
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