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Doug Plummer wrote about your blog site in one of his e-mail newsletters. As he mentioned that the site is about creativity, I was highly interested. I teach creativity and brainstorming workshops to the graphic design and marketing industries.
I look forward to reading more from your authors and, of course, posting comments.
Patricia,
We’ve had a fairly busy day here, so I almost missed your comment.
Welcome. Sounds like you have an interesting job. I’m sure you will have an interesting viewpoint to add.
PS This page was conceived as a non-commentable area. I’ll leave yours up for a day or so, but please don’t be offended when it self destructs.
This site knocks my socks off. I have not been able to find anything on the Internet that deals with issues I feel passionate about as they affect ART. I am bored and tired with reading critics who are threatened and ban me; usually after seeing my name. I work in film and video out of a mad loft with mad young people in Paris and today we’re shooting iconic objects stacked in wooden boxes. Then we’ll be turning that film into blended transparencies to see if we can get the inanimate to become animated without imposing animation into any of it. This morning we’ve been reading your stuff on altered states of consciousness. You have balls to publish that. Had we published anything like that, the American press would have a field day. We do post on the Internet but not on a consistent blog where you can follow the trail like a train of thought because our stalkers are numerous and they take what we do WAY out of context. We had to take a vote on whether or not to respond to your comments on altered states of consciousness and ART and we voted to restrain ourselves as to do that simply causes people to focus on us and not what we do. What we do is utterly tangled up in a post-industrial, urban take on life as we see and experience it. What is going on here seems to have more room to spread its wings and we’re sort of in awe of the space you have in the Art that gets posted here. It seems like enough space to get lost in. We can relate to that sense of space but it’s sort of scary, too, because that lostness also feels like a loneliness at times. I’ve been asked to simply thank you and to let you know there’s a group of artists a LONG way from you that find what you are doing here to be extraordinarily compelling. Thank you. Thank you. — The CREW at Cinematheque
Thanks, Tim. There are definitely interesting political issues around the mere act of having on a converesation like this on the web. Maybe a good post topic for later…
Finding your comment here suggests that maybe we need a place for more general or off-topic remarks that might not fit well on one of the active posts. Maybe we could capture more thoughts people have while reading that they are afraid might not be germane.
Ideas, anyone?
Steve:
You might just post a Halibut now and then.
Back when I was a cub master many moons ago, we had the occasional Saturday where parents and kids would get together for what we called Halibut Day. Nothing was planned in advance and the kids would vote on what to do. It might be the zoo, lake etc.
Nice idea! Coming up soon, one just for the Jay.
Steve:
Gonna keep the halibut?
Is this the route in?
It feels a bit like I am entering a forbidden place.
Jennifer,
There’s no particular route. Please feel free to comment on any post that interests you, using the form at the bottom of the page.
I really like your site, there a not many places on web with that approach, representing certain level of quality. I am running my own blog about art and culture and I feel very related to what you do here. Wish all the best to you :-)
Really like this site, well worth a daily visit….
Fancy linking up?
Thanks,
Tris.
Thanks, Tris,
Please feel free to comment on any post that interests you.
I am really interesting in posting a guest article about graphic design, which I full-heartedly believe to be a fine art. Anyone interested in allowing me the honor to post an article?
Thanks!
Brandon,
If you haven’t already arranged with someone else, please send it to me,
steve AT stephendurbin.com . Thanks!