The Lowcountry Voice

This past weekend my good friend Dan Conover and I sat around during football and beers and talked about how creative people with talent get overlooked and those with crappy ideas seem to get the breaks when it comes to getting their ideas funded and produced. Charleston is loaded with bright creative people and technically savvy individuals that never seem to make the connections that allow quality art forms to an audience.

Personal computers, high-quality but low cost camcorders (and even phone cameras) have made it possible for anyone to put together something that can be posted to YouTube in moments. Some of these folks have become overnight celebrities because their submissions became “viral” and became immensely popular simply through word-of-mouth exposure. They weren’t professionally produced. They didn’t require funding or pre-approval by so-called “experts” in the entertainment industry. They were just simple ideas that someone thought of up and created.

How many great ideas are out there waiting to be “discovered”? I myself would love nothing more than being able to hang out with creative people, simply throwing out ideas for new forms of art, entertainment, film, video, storytelling and such. Is there such a place in this town where this form of interaction happens? Where does the common man, the starving artist, the creative introvert go to meet others of like mind?

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