A blind man can tell you the sky is blue
Ok, a bit of a weird title. You might even say it’s pretentious or trying to be “artyâ€. Well I guess this is an “arty†site so I can probably get away with it, but the reality is this subject is something I have thought about and written about previously. Before I studied illustration I did a year of an animation degree in Newport, Wales. It probably wasn’t the best course for me, I had a great time but I didn’t work that hard and I don’t think the tutors liked me. I believe this because of the way they talked to me and the fact that I would sometimes get lower marks than other people even on joint projects where we did the work together.
One project in particular was a short film about four types of music. Another student and I thought up four genres of music between us, one of the genres I choose was hip-hop/rap, something I was really into at the time. I think the final film was quite good, but they questioned the fact that the hip-hop piece was about gangsters, guns and violence. I responded that this was what the music was about, but I was told it wasn’t and that not only was I typecasting but I was being racist. This is quite simply not true, I am not a racist and I am deeply apposed to racism in all of its forms.
