Silience: The Brilliant Artistry Hidden All Around You

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📖 ETYMOLOGY From silent + brilliance.

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❝ TRANSCRIPT
It's fun to think of your favorite artists, back when they were just starting out. Playing the sidewalk in total anonymity.
It makes you wonder, if they were right there in front of you,
would you have noticed?

Strange that something so vibrant as art is so nearly invisible.
Strange how rarely we stop to savor the details, or hear the music playing in the background that’s far better than it has any right to be.
It’s only after someone points it out, that you finally catch the tune.

It makes you wonder if there's brilliance all around you, hiding in plain sight, just waiting around to see if you’ll notice.

Who knows how many Kafkas and Van Goghs you might be walking past? Maybe the next J.K. Rowling is living just down the street,
maybe she doesn’t even suspect it, any more than we do.

We assume that if a piece is any good, surely it'll find an audience.
But maybe it’s mostly luck. Luck that they’re not already famous.
or luck that the right person just happened to look up. One never knows how two people find each other, if they ever meet at all.

Imagine how much courage it takes, to show up and keep playing anyway, hoping it’ll resonate with someone passing by, though it won’t happen for everybody. To keep pouring your heart into something, even if it falls on deaf ears. Reaching out in the face of indifference, trying to give people permission to care.

Indifference is easy. It takes a lot of courage to fight back against it.
So maybe we should stop and count ourselves lucky that there's still someone out there fighting the good fight.

💬 VIDEO CREDITS
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MATHIAS - Piano Busker by HUMAN POSTCARDS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THjWD8bk7c4

NYC Busker Mashup 2014 by Cathy Grier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leEQwJiFoPMv

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NY in 5 acts by Walter Shintani
https://vimeo.com/45854869

PLAYGROUND DETROIT presents Ouizi Pop-Up Solo Exhibition by PLAYGROUND DETROIT
https://vimeo.com/174850158

We Took the Streets by Geschikte Gasten
https://vimeo.com/55735570

A Song in the Street by Nihal Anand
https://vimeo.com/53622175

Street Beats - Busking on the streets of Perth by Lee de Byl
https://vimeo.com/66951286

Museum Mile Festival 2016 by Viewing NYC
https://vimeo.com/170822945

The Tap Dancer by //PLANET MIND//
https://vimeo.com/194969182

Buskers in Glasgow by Frederik Subei
https://vimeo.com/38905730

David Zinn Art by Create Michigan
https://vimeo.com/105495329

buskers krakow 54 by Cecilia Bry
https://vimeo.com/89080551

Mary Arte - Paint & Dance by Antoine Meyer
https://vimeo.com/61903132

Magical Prague by Daniel Chen
https://vimeo.com/91835324

Alumni Documentary Nilaja Sun Gordon 96 by Franklin & Marshall College
https://vimeo.com/181628844

Kami by Dreamtigerfilms
https://vimeo.com/47777882

Giving it 110% student hip-hop artists by reesenews
https://vimeo.com/20010243

Artists Online by Hannah Salla
https://vimeo.com/55584318

Busking with class by The Edinburgh Reporter on Vimeo
https://vimeo.com/123854993

The Figure Skater by Mollie Mills
https://vimeo.com/85449335

Canis Majoris - Street Art - Olhobranco ∆ by olhobrano
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NOOK First Cut by Chang Liu
https://vimeo.com/46774039

teresa jenee [rehersal] by traviscrosbydotcom
https://vimeo.com/22761673

Johnny Cool - A Short Documentary by Tom Levesque
https://vimeo.com/109627521

White Night Auckland Arts Festival 2015 by Penn Productions
https://vimeo.com/124477973

Downtown Los Angeles ‘IAMDTLA’ by Ted Sim
https://vimeo.com/119023865

The Music by Oleg J
https://vimeo.com/19382346

Arcore Street Festival 2012 by Stefano Armanini
https://vimeo.com/44277578

Amateur Night by Christine Ferrera
https://vimeo.com/33819680

10cm - 아메리카노 by RECANDPLAYdotnet
https://vimeo.com/8468358

Buskers Bern 2013 The little Drummer by Christian Gerber
https://vimeo.com/162216038

Artistic Underpass Voices [A Busking Documentary] by Four Frames Films
https://vimeo.com/125885287

COMEDIENNES by Mark & Amanda
https://vimeo.com/45973070

The Violinist by Federica De Caria
https://vimeo.com/153655821

The Shadow Factory by WERK (TEASER) by Mathew Beckett
https://vimeo.com/190182231

Hop-Hop Promotional Video from Simone Romanò (Ibla Buskers 2010) by Sibone Romano'
https://vimeo.com/55519906

Litter Stops Here by Samuel Marx
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