I've just started drawing-- I'm in my late 30s-- I'm really a programmer who assumed he had no talent. That drawing is possibly better than a lot of stuff I could produce-- but I would never let it escape into the wild.

It sucks.

So does all his"professional' work. It really makes me question my aesthetic. *So* much professional art is utter shit. Why should I be coding for a living when I could be doing utter shit like this?

http://www.simonwild.com/

I'm embarrassed even to know about that, yet I discoverred it though an art site I like.

What is art?

Apparently, sometimes it's shit. And apparently shit pays the rent.

St. Orum wrote:

I've just started drawing-- I'm in my late 30s-- I'm really a programmer who assumed he had no talent. That drawing is possibly better than a lot of stuff I could produce-- but I would never let it escape into the wild.

It sucks.

So does all his"professional' work. It really makes me question my aesthetic. *So* much professional art is utter shit. Why should I be coding for a living when I could be doing utter shit like this?

http://www.simonwild.com/

I'm embarrassed even to know about that, yet I discoverred it though an art site I like.

What is art?

Apparently, sometimes it's shit. And apparently shit pays the rent.

Sure, go out and make shit and see who buys it.  The ultimate cruelty about art is that sometimes a chimp can smear feces and people will buy it for money, but I guarantee that you'll die penniless if you decide to pursue an art career because it's not that shit sells, it's that God puts successful assholes and talentless hack millionaires out there like financial satyrs, whose only purpose is to try to lure people into that "hey, I could do that" mentality and then kill them in the wilderness where nobody can hear their screams.  And maybe you can do that, but the chances that you can make a living off of it are slim to none.  If you don't really like the art, it's not worth it.

tojo wrote:

Edit:  This picture switched to URL in the interests of choad's puckerstar.  Don't hate the player, hate the legislative game.

The real deal is I don't want to referee disputes.

whosasailorthen wrote:

crap like this scribbled

Never underestimate the Checkered Demon

MSG Tripps wrote:

http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/5356 … ernlb4.jpg



Fuck someone else's idea of [art].

S. Clay Wilson!  I used to do photocopies for him.  He lives near a place I worked.  A really nice guy.  You would never guess it was him.


Tojo is right.  Art is a fickle bitch.  Art is also a window washer.....
It's all who you know, who you screw and whatever you can get away with....fer chrissakes, look at that crochet shit that that Lurker guy posted in the Cherry Vanilla thread.....hey! wait a minnit!

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MSG Tripps wrote:

S. Clay Wilson is a cool dude.

Nuff said.

what he said,  yeah Dahl he was always very gracious and pleasant.  The kinda guy you'd want to have a few beers with.

MSG Tripps wrote:

Lurker wrote:

he was always very gracious and pleasant.  The kinda guy you'd want to have a few beers with.

I did not have a problem with the man.  Then again, I am not you.

have you been huffing the spray-paint again?  Who said anything about a problem?