[can't find it it's a screenshot of a youtube of a tiny snowman on a grey hill from a Mario Paint homemade video with a minuscule red sun shifting slowly across the sky, and it's absolutely horrifying in a very straight-to-the-soul sort of way.
Yeah, this is pretty much the crux of (my) experience... I call it "raw psychological power" of art. I used to half- "joke" something to ragnar about some art being "holy", because hey it is what it is...minidisk recordings have special grain and compression to them, insta-holy quality to anything.
I made that dumb long-winded hallelujah!! - post when I discovered fmtowns blog, because he found the same qualities I liked as a kid in eg. NES games... a single screenshot of brick wall and sky of Yo! Noid is more evocative than great masterpieces of art like Mona Lisa lol.
On the other hand...
I'd say it's fenicient when talking to myself that is... it's not the sort of thing I can discuss with anybody else in person... I guess we all have a sense of holiness informed by the great awe-ful tunnel backwards into our childhoods... I grew weary to discover that I couldn't feel other worlds permeating clear through to this one as a child, not like others seemed to... now I frequently worry (without reason) that something in my brain is turned around and my perception of reality will unravel oppositely to how it's supposed to come together... or I'm worried about getting paralyzed... My sense of holiness is continually occasionally expanding, and through this thread... I wonder whether my fenicioperception will ever collapse and I'll realize upon turning 32 that seeing my life in terms of unreleased chipsets and all the powers of two that fit into sixteen bits... is not the key to enlightenment... or I realized it already and haven't changed my track...
This is legit concern & i think what i noticed slowly over time that indeed most people do not notice raw psych. power of art, at least not consciously and regardless it's not the main priority
& i've opened up the the idea that people listen music for social and personality reasons. you are what you listen to...your art preferences reflect the emotions you have most of the time, or what are most relevant to you. anger -> metal, moody introspective art -> etc.
if you think of it, these shiver-inducing/brain altering experiences transcend the form and composition of music lot of times, as those become a secondary to the emotion-addict, lol. idk... i think it's not good either. i don't get strong psych effects from eg music anymore but i'm okay with it... i'd want the middle of the road when i'm 32. perhaps other things have bigger priority by then, like my actual lived life...
i mean why not, if the real art is going to be passed upon anyways? it's like vincent van goghs actual life and state of the appriciation of his art at the time... it's weird but i guess that happens all the time - you may stumble upon great secrets of life, of ways to live life better, but you are hell-bent on trying to get others to see it that way or get others to live like that. i noticed that when i got especially "good" or "talented" with my medium, my priorities and touch to it are completely different to others... but that doesn't make my art any more succesful than layman persons, because their social value etc extra-values are more right than mine i guess.
not to say this as a discouraging comment rather than broadminded insight. we found one thing in time, a good thing, but we can all use change and finding new avenues and ways of thinking... reneisance man...
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