This is the time of year of which we all get tangled up in our own troubles and do not focus on some of the real issues of the world. Well, heifer.org can help us with this, by giving animals to families who are truly in need of food, shelter and security.
By donating a small sum of money, such as ten to twenty dollars, you could provide a family with an animal such as a cow, which could produce milk for the family, for food and cooking. With the extra milk it produces, the family can go to the local market and sell the milk to gain more money, which could go towards food and shelter. Over time, the family will start to gain an income and will be able to earn an education.
With the education, they can receive a steady job and produce a stable income for the family to survive. Just by donating a small sum of money, you could not change one life, but many around them. But this is not just it, the family MUST produce offspring to give to another family, which will do the same thing as the family before. Over time, the community will grow and sooner or later, the impoverished areas will start to gain strength.
Even if you can not donate any money, please donate a few seconds or minutes by adding a favorite to this article and sending it on to other deviants around deviantart. It would be really awesome if we could get some support on this, and maybe as an art community we can pull together to help others in need! I know it can be done!
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"Show no emotion, and it can destroy your soul" - Disturbed
1. It's time-consuming. I mean, I like to read quite a bit, and yet I still have a large to-do list of things to read just because I only occasionally have the time to read them. Whereas looking at a piece of art is a pretty quick procedure.
2. The fact that the technical side of writing is deceptively easy. After all, it doesn't take much physical skill to write words on paper or type them into a word processor, assuming someone of average intelligence and physical health. And on top of that, anyone remotely social spends a lot of time on a regular basis having to turn their thoughts into sentences to communicate to other people. And further on top of that, outside of formal language classes we tend to have a culture of "good enough", where if you get your point across OK, things like imperfect spelling, grammar, sentence structure, etc. tend to be overlooked.
The net result is that people tend to think that writing is something anyone can do. And this attitude is pervasive *everywhere* - simply look at the proliferation of lousily-written TV shows, movies, video games, etc., many of which are still popular.
So even if you can get someone to read your work... the bar has been set so low over the decades, and people are so used to not caring about/analyzing literature, that you probably won't get much in the commentary other than "I liked it" or "I didn't like it".
So... I actually don't think people not liking to read is the biggest issue (not saying that doesn't contribute- I have a best friend who's very intelligent and creative, yet frustratingly hates reading, for instance - just that it's not the biggest problem), but a pervasive attitude that writing is the cheapest & easiest creative skill. People read & enjoy, but they still don't think about it much.
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Personally, I'm the type of writer that likes to get my writing analyzed and criticized, but it's really hard to find someone who will take a red pen to my work. Sure, I love getting compliments, but I need to know how to get better and what I need to do to change my style so it flows. If only more people on DA took the time to read.
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Yes its time consuming, but in the end, if it is well written, writing can be so incredibly inspiring. Art, manipulation, photography, poetry, crafts, film and literature are all things that require creativity, imagination and skill. That makes all of them, by definition art...
As a writer, one of my greatest sources of inspiration is art, and the way I see it literature serves the same purpose the other way around.
It's all about perception, and people perceive writing (as mentioned previously) as easy and something that anyone can do.
So, people don't bother to comment, don't take the time out to help and encourage or offer advice where they might with a piece of 'art'. Its funny because in a way most people are in a better position to critique a piece of literature than they are to critique, say a painting. One doesn't necessarily need the same skills to be able to see where it is wrong or what exactly one could do to improve it.
Writing is a reflection of the way we see the world. It mirrors our greatest hopes and aspirations, our darkest reams and desires. It inspires us, drives us, makes us think about life, things, people, the way we go about living. Literature is us. It is who we are, all of us in one way or another. The only difference lies in that it is left up to the reader to make the picture in the mind.
Every person takes away a different thing, sees a different image. Sometimes it doesn't mean anything to you. Sometimes it confronts you with a truth so real (and often accidental) that you are changed, irrevocably. To me. That is art. Therefore, in my mind at least, literature and art are two sides of the same coin. Which thinking about it would film the rim of the coin, the marriage of the two forms of what is, ultimately, storytelling...
I suppose all we can really do as writers is support other writers on DA as we wish to be supported. To offer advice, encouragement and all the other things a writer needs to flourish. Perhaps, after awhile, people will get the hang of it and such comments will become second nature. But I do feel, that between the first time I stumbled on DA and now, literature appreciation has risen. Maybe not hugely, but I do (peers dubiously at few 'love it's' on the side of the page) feel people are becoming more aware.
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Death had tried firey steeds and skeletal horses in the past and found them impractical, especially the fiery ones, which tended to set light to their own bedding and stand in the middle of it looking embarrassed
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Death had tried firey steeds and skeletal horses in the past and found them impractical, especially the fiery ones, which tended to set light to their own bedding and stand in the middle of it looking embarrassed
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Not that it should be, but that would be an interesting creative different approach, don't you think?
Perhaps people feel shy after reading a piece of writing, well thought and coherent.
Perhaps they feel that any comment from their side would be a bit inconsequent. Feel that enough has been said, written.
With artwork, particularly with color and fantasy, usually people feel to add a bit of their own fantasy and opinions.
For centuries, the verbal language has dominated the culture and human relationships, very strongly in the Western intellectual and academic world. There still seems to be an aura of authority around words. More rules, more obedience.
Then there is this black/ white monotony, no colors. And the same movement of the eye from left to right, from top to bottom.
Try to write your poetry and/or prose with calligraphy and see what would be the response from the viewer/reader. Why DA don't offer some nice calligraphic fonts, combined with some colorful effects in the text boxes?
Why don't you prepare your text on an image/text editor with a combination of calligraphy, color, layout etc...? Why be limited to the same format/pattern?
Is art the privilege of painters? Musicians?
Is not art a way to act where there is passion, love, growing skill, all this approach quite independent from the medium employed?
You do something with Art when all your being is presently involved in doing. Not only your mind (thought) but also your heart, your body, all your senses intensely awaken. Then, being in dance, music, poetry, literature, painting, sculpture, gardening or simply living, this creative quality in the action refresh both the artist and the audience.
Of course one may have a different view, and try to justify laziness with cliches as it happens so often. That's fine too.
So, to reply with pictures to your well written editorial, i invite you to visit my gallery which has practically no comments and write a nice, elegant comment with all your skills and sensitivity.
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