Creativity by Charles Bukowski

🔰This video was shot on Mount Ossa, a mountain next to Olympus in Greece. This place doesn't enjoy international fame but it's just as beautiful as Olympus, this video showcases this underappreciated beauty. The poem selected has been echoing through in my mind the last few months because I was busy with my career as an engineer and I was finding excuses to not create content for this channel. Charles Bukowski had the most romantic answer with his poem to this problem of creativity and even though it's not applicable to the world of realism that we inhabit, it remains undeniably inspirational and beautiful. I hope you like the poem and the video.

Forever Humbled,
a kid with a camera

P.S. The beautiful voice that you hear belongs to Iness and this video would not be possible without her contribution and her dedication.

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-The narrator is Iness J.

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-The music is this:
Into The Light - Moments

🔰My equipment:
I film handheld with a Panasonic Lumix
G80
GX80
📷Olympus M.Zuiko Digital 45mm F1.8 Lens

🔰A few Charles Bukowski books
📓Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame

📓Essential Bukowski: Poetry

📓Women: A Novel

📓The Last Night of the Earth Poems

📓Ham On Rye: A Novel

📓post office: A Novel

📓You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense

🔰Air and Light and Time and Space by Charles Bukowski

you know, I’ve either had a family, a job,
something has always been in the
way
but now
I’ve sold my house, I’ve found this
place, a large studio, you should see the space and
the light.
for the first time in my life I’m going to have
a place and the time to
create.”

no baby, if you’re going to create
you’re going to create whether you wor
k 16 hours a day in a coal mine
or
you’re going to create in a small room with 3 children
while you’re on
welfare,
you’re going to create with part of your mind and your
body blown
away,
you’re going to create blind
crippled
demented,
you’re going to create with a cat crawling up your
back while
the whole city trembles in earthquake, bombardment,
flood and fire.

baby, air and light and time and space
have nothing to do with it
and don’t create anything
except maybe a longer life to find
new excuses
for.

[inessjlibene]

Always an immense pleasure to join you in your creative journey and push boundaries one video at a time ❤️

[thlurte]

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

[sinethembanogaga]

Can we take a moment to appreciate how much of a blessing this guy is on YouTube

[honestlyimnotsure]

A thought filled poem about how creativity doesn’t come from where you are physically, rather it’s a state of mind. It ’s the human will to still create, through whatever hardship and pain; and that maybe air and light and time and space is only a tool we can use to distract us away from creativity. For when we have the luxury of all that, there is no pressure and no will to want to create beautiful art

[trahapace]

As an artist struggling to create while working construction this one hit me in the

[archana]

Maybe a longer life to find new excuses for: Creativity ♥️

[GYIFERR]

Never stop producing content please. Your channel was one of the best things I found, and I wish you every success in your life.

[shilpanduttaZenLife]

​Bukowski was a god of his own making, a legend of his own kind.

[mananagarwal]

"you should see the space and the light" the whole truth of the universe in one line.

[andrewmwelwachanda]

Really love her gentle voice, it fits this piece so perfectly. It's almost like a narration of her very own life, she really owned it. And much appreciation to you Illneas for always putting out the best, you keep motivating me to CREATE!

[magicmushroom]

This was honestly how I’ve been feeling lately,
Its nice to have someone put it into words

[MS-mpom]

Her voice, the music, visuals.... feels like a big exhale. Thank you.

[geronimoscadilac]

While many of Bukowski's poems are considered "profane" by the critics, I've always looked for the diamonds among the dung in his poetry. It looks like Illneas has too. Thanks for these videos!

[ayn]

i just love her voice, pls let us hear her more

[michalinakrakus]

Art like this makes me feel the tears in my soul, feel them rise n fall back into the depths of my heart, unable to shed them, my unshed tears carry back the words to my soul and trap them there,

[hannasandwitch]

Even though I read the title when the video started I thought I was listening to HER story. Simply amazing

[fedorbutochnikow]

Charles Bukowski was one of the more conscious poets out there. straight forward and honest. he proved us all that quality is in the simplicity itself.

[CoachDeeFree]

Omg. I Am moved beyond this dimension.

[fira]

I'm always crying when someone is reading out loud his poems. Because it reminds me of everything and nothing

[audenhubbard]

The voice in this is so nice, I think it complements the words really well