A 3-Minute Lesson on Art and Creativity [VIDEO]
You know that feeling of taking a photo that’s been taken many times before? This video will inspire you to take the photo anyway.
How many times have you wanted to photograph a beautiful sunset, or a popular historical landmark but you know that same photo has been taken a million times before? Will your picture be original, is it even worth taking? This video will inspire you to snap the photo anyway.
Vemödalen is an invented word, dreamed up by wordsmith John Koenig to describe the powerful emotion that arises when photographing something amazing that has already been captured thousands of times, in almost identical photographs. It could be a place in nature, a family moment, or an iconic landmark. In the age of digital photography, for anyone with an Instagram account or a Facebook profile, it is indeed a common experience.
By sewing together 465 such photographs into a three-minute clip, this video paints a beautiful, poignant picture of that very specific emotion, and teaches a compelling lesson about authenticity and art.
Focusing on the shared, very human experience of ‘Vemödalen,’ the video expounds the view that it’s okay to keep taking the same photos, drawing the same pictures and telling the same stories, even if it might look just like earlier versions. That this is how each and every one of us leave our mark on the world.
“You are unique,” a voiceover states simply. “And there are seven billion others, just as unique as you. Each of us is different, with some new angle on the world.” Now that is something we can all agree on.
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