I'm a little uncertain about linking to this talk, because it is... far and away the most emotional talk of my life. I spent a lot of time crying on stage, and that was no act. But here is my talk from DWeb Camp: "Spritely: Painting a New Vision for the Internet" https://dwebcamp.org/videos/spritely-painting-a-new-vision-for-the-internet/
The talk is about @spritely and why I think our work matters, but also multiple levels of existential crisis, including the potentially absurd choice to have the executive director of your org animate a short film, which I am hard at work doing, trying to justify our existence
And who gives a shit, when anyone can just press a button and get generated output
Who really cares?
Who cares about any of this.
But I do care.
It also contains major spoilers for the very animation I'm working on right now, but in much more raw and largely storyboarded form. And it's... a raw, and emotional talk, that also had much of the room likewise in tears. So I dunno, maybe watch it or not; consider that your CW.
@cwebber @spritely
The project looks amazing, though I don't understand what underlies it, things like the carousel as a platform itself is way outside anything I know about.
But yes your art is worth it. It's your work, and it has value as that alone, and contributes to other peoples' vision of what is possible.
Samuel R Delany said when asked about his own writing, no artist is in a position to judge their own work. You can't really assess how others see it and can't know what the world does with it. It will happen with and without you.