Sitting back on Saturday
March 8, 2008
It has snowed better than a foot and is still coming down. If it wasn’t for the fact I need to go to the post office and the grocery store later I would be content to sit around in my robe and do geeky things like every person who discovered Jolt cola and ISCA BBS in the same year should be doing. I digress though, I have moved on from ISCA to YIM, and Second Life. Jolt just isn’t widely available around here, but I have learned to compensate with extra coffee and Pepsi Max. A few more pieces of geek nostalgia have fallen into my lap of late. I was happy to see the latest trailer for Get Smart.
Seeing Steve say, “Missed it by that much,” took me back to late nights watching old reruns on the Kansas City Fox affiliate before Fox had any memorable programming of its own. I am sure they had something, but it wasn’t memorable or as cool and sophisticated as the Twilight Zone or Get Smart. Come to think of it aside from the animated Fox shows none of them are still as sophisticated or cool as vintage Twilight Zone of Get Smart. Read more
Sphere: Related ContentSo You think you are an artist!
February 12, 2008
If you think you are an artist, you are full of shit! Artist is a term that can only be applied by the end consumer of a person’s labors. Calling yourself an artist is like calling yourself an artist is like calling yourself an actor for having been on the news talking about the ‘tornader of ‘74‘. So what are you if you aren’t an artist? You are a craftsman of some degree in pursuit of an art, but that does not make one an artist. What degree of competence a person shows varies, but even the best still can’t legitimately call themselves an artist without being pretentious. What should you call yourself if not artist then? Try being humble about it. You are a musician. You are a performer. You are a Photographer. You are an interpretive dancer. You are a graphic designer. You are a Painter. You are a cabinet Maker. You are a woodturner. You are a jewler. You are a composer. You are a mime. You are the singer in the band. I am the walrus. But we are not artists. Say you are proud of your craft, even boast about how good you are, but don’t walk around with your head up your ass saying you are an artist.
