i was replying to the overall vibe of this post, but yeah, this Intel thing is a good example of NOT putting your time or any time really, into the right place.
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Ah I see, I feel you Tim!
I can’t count the number of times I’ve opened up an archive from last years job and said “Holy shit, did it go out that way?” Only those with a lifetime of perfect comping may cast the first shade.
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I remember working my retinas off through a whole weekend and presenting to this big time director -in Buenos Aires- and upon first view he said “this is the wrong VO!” ignoring all the fantastic VFX work we had done
Every time the clients talk about the audio I breathe a sigh of relief. If after watching my team’s work through five or six times their only thought is “the mix sounds wrong” I am a happy person.
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This is why your job leads you to impostor syndrome.
You feel like you hoodwinked your clients somehow by not having your activities over scrutinized, when in fact your work was so artful and complete that it was beyond discussion.
The whole business is so upside down.
I don’t remember famous quotes from Picasso expressing how he just “got away with it”.
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On a granular enough scale we all fail because there is no substitute for “real” other than “real.” Everything we do is an approximation—a quantitative simulation of what is real, but an approximation all the same.
Where your viewer places the bar for success versus where you place it and for whatever reason (time, money, quality) never syncs and sometimes your expectations are on the wrong side of that sliding scale.
Given that logic we’re always frauds or never frauds which means ultimately we’re just in the business of creating illusions while being human while dealing with other humans which means prone to miscommunications and misinterpretations… and that’s on both sides of that expectation. The bar is subjective and some shit we created based on our 10,000 hours of work.
The Picasso analogy raises a good question. When you have to adhere to a set of rules in terms of what looks real and the bar and whatnot and you are performing this service at the creative discretion of another person, are you an artist or a craftsman?
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Picasso made products
Most of us are in the service industry
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Are you saying Picasso’s output is limited to the superset “product” …that there’s no finer, genus or species for his output?
I would agree we work in a service industry but that delineation doesn’t really answer who we are in that service economy—what role we play.
This is probably pretty inconsequential. I just think there’s an inherent difference and I’m always curious about the rationale of others.
There’s no good or bad.
You either make the statue or you’re polishing the statue or carrying the statue from the main hall to the garden.
Where do you want to be in that chain of events?
FWIW I’m the monkey working for the dude who sells low resolution pictures of the statue as non fungible tokens…
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