“Instagram is a media company. I think we're about visual media.” ThinkingCompanyMediaVisualsInstagram Author:Kevin Systrom
“Instagram is a media company. I think we're about visual media. I explain ourselves as a disruptive entertainment platform that enables communication through visual media. I don't think it's just photos. There's a reason we don't allow you to upload photos on the Web as albums. It's not about taking all these photos off your DSLR putting them into an album and sharing them with your family. It's not about that. It's about what are you up to right now out in the real world, how can you share that with everyone.” ThinkingWorldRealReasonCompanyShareMediaCommunicationRight NowAlbumsEntertainmentOur FamilyVisualsReal WorldPlatformsInstagramDisruptive Author:Kevin Systrom
“I learned capacity for self-reflection very early, finding it through interior monologues that books are so good at and that visual media is so bad at because it's so boring - nothing's happening. In a book, you can be inside the narrator's head for 50 pages, and nothing needs to happen. Then you learn to be inside your own head without something needing to happen. It's a very good antidote to a crazy, restless, "what's next?" culture - that you can just be in your own head and nothing is happening except that this is a rich place. I love that.” NeedsBookSelfHappensCultureNextRichCrazyMediaFindingsPagesHappeningsReflectionCapacityVery GoodBoringVisualsInteriorsRestlessAntidoteSelf ReflectionMonologuesNarratorsSo Boring Author:Jeanette Winterson
“I think the media plays into the hands of false induction, genuine seduction taking place, wrong deductions, and the inevitable reductions. That's the way and the path of the visual.” ThinkingWayPlayHandsPathMediaGenuineInevitableVisualsSeductionReductionDeductions Author:Ravi Zacharias
“I someday hope to find the time and coin to invest more of my creative energy towards the visual media side of releasing music. I'd love to make short film videos pushing the conventional standards of what a country music video can be.” CountryFilmEnergySidesCreativeMediaStandardsVideoVisualsSomedayPushingConventionalCoinsShort FilmsCreative Energy Author:Sturgill Simpson
“I have, and do sometimes, work with other media. But there is something about the physical activity and the directness of painting that I find fascinating. I am very attracted to the materiality of paintings and the visual phenomena of hue and value.” SometimesValuesMediaPaintingActivityVisualsFascinatingHuePhysical ActivityMateriality Author:Stephen Beal
“The idea of using media for expressing yourself artistically is kind of something I learned from my mother and my father. So for me, I think growing up wanting to be an artist, I always imagined myself sort of crossing over or mixing media and so it was a natural evolution for me to try to express in a filmic way or in a visual way. It just kind of seems like a natural sort of progression for me in terms of what I'm trying to do as an artist.” ThinkingWayTryingKindIdeasSeemsMotherArtistFatherTermNaturalGrowing UpGrowingMediaEvolutionVisualsProgressionExpress YourselfCrossingsMixingUsing MeCrossing Over Author:Sean Lennon
“I often envy my friends who are visual artists. Visual artists have other things to work with. Other media. I envy my sculptor friends: they have hunks of matter. Marble. Wood. It's physical, which I find very appealing. What we have is nothing, is just glaringly blank.” MatterArtistMediaMy FriendsWoodsEnvyVisualsBlankMarbleSculptorsVisual ArtHunkVisual Artist Author:Dani Shapiro
“Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and film are both "dream factories."” ArtDreamFilmFormCultureMediaVisualsPoetry IsFactoriesDominantPresent DayProxy Author:Denise Duhamel
“Now, by and large, people are recording material to put on YouTube. I have a theory that YouTube is, in the end, the #1 media for musicians. Which is strange, because there's a visual associated with it.” PeopleEndsMediaStrangeMaterialsTheoryMusicianVisualsYoutube Author:Travis Morrison
“I think a bigger difference with social media is going to be things like the impact Instagram will have for historians. For the longest time, we had no images of the past. And then when we had the advent of the camera, we had a record of the things people chose to photograph, which, for a while, were portraits of your family, a new building we built, or a really big horse. Well now we have images of everything. That will be the biggest difference I think - that we will have a visual record of this reality in a way that will be completely covered.” PeopleThinkingWayWellsBigsRealityPastSocialDifferencesRecordsMediaBuildingBuiltBiggerHorseCamerasImpactPhotographSocial MediaOur FamilyVisualsCoveredHistorianPortraitsInstagramAdvent Author:Chuck Klosterman
“I know "accessibility" is a term that's kind of thrown around wantonly today, especially with talking about visual media. But I think that the strength of comics [is how they] really allow you to transcend those last barriers between a reader absorbing the information of an experience, and a reader being able to project themselves into the [experience of the] people about whom they're reading.” PeopleThinkingKnowsKindTodayAbleLastsReadingTermTalkingMediaInformationReaderProjectsVisualsThrownBarriersAbsorbingAccessibility Author:Nate Powell
“Our lives are so visual now, with social media and we're constantly shifting gears. Nobody requires a table of contents. Nobody requires that one page leads to the next page, we're okay being surprised by things that are eclectic.” NextSocialOur LivesMediaPagesOkayTablesSocial MediaVisualsShiftingGearsEclecticTable Of Contents Author:Sophia Amoruso
“Today there is no greater force in the molding of the North American mind than the invasion of the imagination by the visual media.” MindTodayForceImaginationGreaterMediaVisualsInvasionMolding Author:Ravi Zacharias