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Saturday, March 6, 2010, 10:16 AM - Random
Hello and happy Saturday, faithful/faithless reader! Thanks for stopping by. I hope you're enjoying the LOL's I've put up. With all of the political posts I've been sticking up here lately I thought that the last couple were appropriate. And as for the yeti, when aren't they appropriate?
And it seems that LOL's can be time savers, as well. I've been reading about different art movements this week and have been especially fascinated by the Young British Artists' movement, and a little outraged. I've been talking about it incessantly, much to the annoyance of my friends. And I was planning on ranting about it here, in my little corner of the WWW, until I ran across this-

which pretty much sums up my thoughts on the subject and also covers the rebuttal I'm sure that my faithful readers would've had to the entry. I'm going to spend the time I would've spent writing the entry responding to the comments left since my last entry, then I'm gonna go get ready for a movie date I have today. Alice In Wonderland is on my agenda this afternoon!


Bob 
Sunday, March 7, 2010, 11:55 PM
When producing art becomes more about it's speculative financial value than communicating a personal vision it dry rots and falls apart.
If the artist's motivation is to be accepted by a particular clique the art becomes cliché.

If you've ever read Heinlein pick up a copy of "For Us, The Living".
One review is at http://www.troynovant.com/Franson/Heinl and Wikipedia has a good encapsulation of the plot lines.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Us,_Th

I can't recommend it as a novel - it does have the unmistakable feel of being his first effort, and Spider Robinson pieced it together from a draft posthumously found in a garage. It reminds me of tracking down and listening to Duane Allman's and Lowell George's earlier musical endeavors ... rough hewn, but steeped in what would mature into mastery.

I'm bringing it up because the 'homesourcing' theme puts me in mind of how people now derive income from webcasting, and contemplating how mechanisms such as Etsy are figuring in to a renaissance of (in broad definition) folk art.
Herowner 
Saturday, March 6, 2010, 11:28 AM / http://herowner.com/
I do hope you will enjoy that movie, I am interested in seeing what Tim Burton made out of it myself. As to your posts I have always had split opinion on the actual value behind some of that kind of art. However one could argue that what sites like devicebondage do is art and no one seems to argue the value of that. Modern Art on the other hand does have to defend itself a lot.

I enjoy reading your writing not only because I have respect for you as a human being and what you have chosen to do with your kink, but also because it is not always about sex or the industry. I love the more political posts, so please keep them coming.
adam 
Saturday, March 6, 2010, 10:51 AM
even as far as conceptual/"commodity" art, there are artists elsewhere creating far better work with fresher ideas than most of the yba's. the yba's are solely seen as significant because: an advertising billionaire who collects art has inflated the market with his extravagant patronage, the gossip media can easily find vapid schlock to write about them, and to a large portion of the academic art business, spinelessness is seen as a virtue. i do kinda like some of the chapman brother's work though.

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