The Creative Endeavour

What a fantastic podcast! I check daily to see if a new one has dropped! Thank you Andrew and God Bless you and your family.

This is the absolute best art podcast around. It keeps me motivated and inspired to keep creating art.

Always enjoy this podcast and find Andrew’s art, discussions, and teaching incredibly valuable. As someone that works in social media it’s always fascinating to hear someone who’s had a little success talk about why they think they’ve succeeded. It can be disorienting. I would say Patrick comes off as someone that has somewhat of rosey view about Instagram’s motivations and what meaning can be derived from a post that “performs” on the platform (in terms of market and value). He sounds like a lot of people who have sort of unconsciously delegated decision making and meaning making to Instagram or similar platforms. Something I find terribly flawed. I don’t even know if he truly believes what he suggests about deciding if your art is good or getting in front of the right audience based on what Instagram arbitrarily decides about those things. All things are not equal. Instagram is a flawed research tool. The algorithm has a monetary intent informed by distraction. It wants users on platform as long as possible. It is not an impartial player that just reflects reality in an unbiased way. It’s strange when people talk about it like that implicitly. The algorithm is a distraction machine. That’s it’s primary function. Deriving meaning beyond that is very squishy. Many artists with huge followings make no money from it and waste enormous amounts of time. In many ways they fuel the machine for free under the guise of building an audience or reach. There are good things about it but there’s a lot of bad and it’s very fickle. If it works for a person, good. I’d be cautious about making broad conclusions about that phenomenon though. It’s strange how many people buy into serving the algorithm almost without question. All hail lord algorithm lol. Popularity helluva drug.

Great ep. !