[TheForge] Re: Pointless complaining

Sun Nov 3 00:37:01 2002

At 09:03 PM 11/2/02, you wrote:

I've come to view it sort of like this;
My heart is in making the stuff...is it good or bad...I dunno and  try not 
to care much....it is the process I'm here for. If I had to I'd pay so I 
could keep doing it.
The work is merely the  by-product of the process, much as turds are the 
byproduct of eating and digestion.
But, In order to keep doing it, innocents have to be  convinced to buy the 
turds.
This means both finishing ( which I hate) and sales ( which I don't like 
either).
This must be done with a straight face, though it is hard some times.

If you think "artists" are weird...meet the gallery owners who wish they 
could do art but ,dont. They can be profoundly neurotic!
Convincing someone to buy a turd is a delicate business that I'm not very 
good at.
Is that what is called " A bad attitude?"
                      pete

>Frosty waxed brilliant and wrote:
>
> > The only thing I have to "add" to Bruce's analysis is:
> >
> > Proper expressions.
> >
> > There are a number of expressions one can affect for the artsy bs crowd.
> > [...]
> > First: The Superior Sneer....
> > Second: The Knowing Look....
> > Third: Pained Indulgence....
>
>Hah!  I never thought to classify and catalog these bits.  But as I
>see them listed, I realize that they are part of my internal,
>automatic jerkball detector.  Just seeing those expressions listed
>brings to mind images of Jerks I Have Known and of the occasions upon
>which I realized they were jerks.
>
>No wonder I never managed to get it on with the Art Establishment, eh?
>:-)
>
>- Mike
>
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