{"id":3527,"date":"2017-08-10T18:36:57","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T18:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/risky.tv\/?p=3527"},"modified":"2017-09-27T20:20:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T20:20:58","slug":"i-need-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/risky.tv\/i-need-color\/","title":{"rendered":"A Different Kind of In Living Color"},"content":{"rendered":"
If we didn’t like Jim Carrey<\/a> so much \u2014 as an overall human and all-around cool guy (not just as an actor and comedian) \u2014 we might actually just leave our preface to this video with this comment by a YouTuber:<\/p>\n Another bored millionaire who’s fallen from the public eye and attempting to be relevant by pontificating about his hobby. He’s become a caricature of what he thinks an artist is<\/strong> by waxing and waning with empty pseudo-intellectual and self-aggrandizing platitudes. He’s going on about painting as if it’s a divine activity of “Christ consciousness” that chose him. It’s vapid existentialist absurdity<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n ..but, we won’t just stand for that somewhat half-truth critical-coolness of artciulate-ness…<\/p>\n We’ll also include the beginnings of Richard Horgan’s AdWeek overview of the 6-minute documentary:<\/p>\n A portrait of Jim Carrey as a committed, serious visual artist. Anchored to a street-level studio space in New York City. It\u2019s anything but standard Hollywood summer fare.<\/p>\n Carrey is not going for formulaic laughs; I Need Color runs just over six minutes; and the film, very dynamically, captures the actor\u2019s fulfillment of some additional artistic impulses he has been exploring since childhood<\/strong>.<\/p>\n When Carrey says the following about painting in the film, he stands at the opposite end of all those trailer spots where he waited for the next film scene to be prepped. He\u2019s been there, done that. \u201cI like the independence of it. I love the freedom of it. No one else tells you what you can or can\u2019t do, most of the time. And there\u2019s an immediacy to it.\u201d<\/p>\n Carrey did a lot of sketching as a kid, but it is only when he [ continue here.. <\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n For some very insightful, more sincere, perspectives on the above, check out these two resources:<\/p>\n Jim Carrey “crazy” behavior explained<\/a> (Video<\/strong>)<\/p>\nBONUS STUFF:<\/h3>\n