Re: [microsound] Serious Artist?

[Bill Jarboe <billjarboe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 13, 2006, at 1:56 PM, David Powers wrote:

> I use the term "serious artist", to distinguish people who bust their
> asses off doing cool $1t, often for little compensation; as opposed
> to the kind of stuff that designers produce, on demand, for whoever is
> willing to pay them.
>
> Sometimes the same people, do both kinds of work, but I refuse to take
> commercial design seriously as art. Most designers have so bought into
> the capitalist model, however, that they seem unable to comprehend
> this...

  I've had a problem with what to put in that window when making mp3s. 
You know the one where it says Artist? I've thought about it seriously 
so I suppose I'm serious though I'm not sure if I'm an artist.

 With that outsiders perspective I'd say the difference is that a 
serious artist is willing is willing to portray them-self in an 
unfavorable light for a good reason. $1t A dilettante will only choose 
to make statements which are obviously to that person's advantage , not 
realizing that it is the depth , the honesty which give a person's work 
intrinsic value.

-bill


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