It's like everyone's sense of striving to innovate, recreate, and otherwise rejuvenate has ceased to be!
The formula has been used to death. If you've done it a million times over, or even once before, stop doing it that way. Forever. Or at least for a long enough time that the generation you've grown up with almost forgets...
I watched a very well articulated presentation on the difference between serious and solemn work. When you are doing serious work - you still aren't entirely sure how things are going to turn out - but you have the drive to do your very best and keep working your hardest to make sure it's fresh and interesting(whatever this may be). On the other hand, solemn work is described as what's done when you've created a formula that you've seen work time and again, which more often than not is sure to succeed. The downside to solemn work is that creativity ceases, and what was once innovation, becomes routine and the work loses its passion.
Standardization and formulated efforts can take the soul out of art; people can tell when you've really felt an experience. You got yourself through it by really belting those notes out and writing down your hurt feelings in a heartfelt ballad. Take Adele for example: She has taken the world captive and has us in her hands, waiting for the next tear-jerker. Art is supposed to be for art's sake, and when it's made to be about money, it loses its appeal and charm. No matter who you are, even if you don't care for the art world as much as some others do, you know somewhere deep down whether someone is writing from their heart, or for their bank account. I've heard and seen far too many artists who I considered to be "put-in-the history books" worthy go down the drain with their inability to adapt, evolve, or at least put a new spin on something we've seen or done before.
They say everything has been done before(and I'm trying to seem a little redundant here on purpose), but there are still new things that come out of people's minds that we've never thought of. Apple products: While not new inventions, have made it easy enough for anyone to use, which are packaged and marketed so brilliantly, it's hard not to become captivated by the pretty exterior and idiot-proof interface. Android and other open source products are vastly superior, with their ability to be manipulated so extensively. But they are more difficult for the less technologically savvy/interested, and so Apple, for now, reigns supreme by their design and marketing. Alexander McQueen (Rest his beautiful soul) changed the fashion industry forever with his edgy, dark and creative designs. He dared to think outside the box and worked endlessly to give the very best in fashion and art that he could. Again, he wasn't reinventing the wheel, but he did things that awed and inspired us. Keep in mind: he was doing this years after many strong ideas about what fashion was, were already applied. We may never see such a powerful mind brought to life on a runway again. I'm hoping against hope that another emerges, but at the very least, it may take a long, long time.
It's time for everyone to pick up their feet, pull up their socks, lift up their heads, and look up into that big sky and say "What am I going to do?" You're probably thinking "This is such a simple and obscure question to ask oneself" But few people ask that of themselves. It's always going with the flow, living in routine and not really thinking about how one person could change the world. If one person, such as Barack Obama, Lady Gaga, Tim Burton, Nobuo Uemastu, Albert Einstein, Lady Diana(R.I.P.), Al Gore, or Meryl Streep can change the world's idea of the common conventions of things and really open our eyes to the possibilities, imagine what an amazing place we'd live in if everyone did.
All photography done by Joffery Hollsworth
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I recently had the opportunity to dig into breakfast at Bon's off Broadway. At Bon's you can get a breakfast comprising of two eggs (prepared how you like), two pieces of toast (of your choosing), pan fried potatoes (which are how hash browns SHOULD be made), and your choice of either sausage or bacon. The best part of this well balanced breakfast is that it costs $2.95! I personally don't eat pork, so I opted for pancakes, but for merely a dollar more. 
