Comments on: Blogging As Art.

By: Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:02:55 +0000

I so seriously would want to be able to honestly say that too… but if I’m not famous and people don’t know whom I am, how will they buy my stuff?

…I’m as far from being altruistic as you possibly can without tipping the scale to egotistic instead…

…keep reading the old posts. You might find something you’ll like!
Ahh well that explains your participation in the Authonomy popularity contest. A competition to be famous will almost always result in a social networker winning rather than a writer. Writers on the whole tend not to be great at social networking, so we can assume that it won’t be the best writer who wins. People should buy your stuff because your stuff is good and as a result of that you become famous. Nowadays people become famous for being famous and then use that to sell anything. Oh well,

By: lissa

lissa — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:25:10 +0000

very profound, paul. i love the ideas you bring to the light in this. fantastic.
Thanks, Lissa!

By: Mental Mist

Mental Mist — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:36:13 +0000

Just wanted to add, I saw the latest Batman movie a while back where the Joker says “If you do something well, don’t do it for free”

Im going with Amen
Amen, indeed,

By: cocoyea

cocoyea — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:50:00 +0000

I think I wasn’t very clear in my comment. I’m in know way promoting or expecting artists to give away their rights to their works. Ideally, in a more socialistic structure their wouldn’t be a need for the vultures in suits who aren’t invested in art but in making a buck, and art would be determined for itself and not on how many sales it made in a quarter.
Cocoyea, you rock! I am hanging out for my CD to arrive. And I agree with you one million per cent.

By: christine

christine — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:29:14 +0000

What do you mean by redemption? Does the word have Christian connotations for you? These aren’t loaded questions, just curious.

I read that Picasso lived through an earthquake in Andalusia as a child (Alice Miller). I wonder if Guernica also links back to those times. He does reflect the suffering of war.

You bring up so many ideas. I think the best part of your essay is that it makes people think about what they are doing when they blog, or post items, or whatever it is they share with others.
Yes, Christine, you have cut to the point. It is a word that needs a good definition before I can make any more assertions. I am working on it.

By: cocoyea

cocoyea — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:26:25 +0000

You’ve hit on a very important issue, an issue that I’m always debating with my friends. I read some where that art has no place in economics, and I completely agree with this. Just look at the image of the “artist” in pop culture. It’s an image of industry, selling everything from clothing to floral arrangements, and there’s no sort of interest about the art itself, and how it can be used to create change for the better, how it can ignite thought, discourse, movement, dance. Artist today, and I’m speaking about the music industry, spend more time trying to accumulate wealth rather than thinking about the quality and substance of their next record. It’s an industry for the individual artist rather than a means to mobilize the people. Maybe that’s part of the problem that art doesn’t belong to the people when it should be. It should be free. But of course the artist has to eat, and what about the value of the work and the time put into it, is it somehow depreciated because it’s free for everyone to enjoy, to participate in? But this is how it all starts, attaching a dollar sign next to a piece of work.
Everybody else gets paid for their work, truck drivers, politicians, accountants, bank robbers, all get paid. Artists provide something valuable to society just like any other worker, so I wonder why artists should be expected to give their work away.