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Because there will be a dashboard light.
Posted by Doc Al | April 11, 2013 12:24 PM
Posted on April 11, 2013 12:24
“Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.” - Tom Stoppard
Posted by Anonymous | April 11, 2013 4:48 PM
Posted on April 11, 2013 16:48
Just another way of saying "The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence."
But people back then were stupid and uneducated and didn't know what they were talking about.
Posted by GarandFan | April 11, 2013 8:23 PM
Posted on April 11, 2013 20:23
I always that Laurie Anderson (whom I admire) and her performance art ilk were onto something truly remarkable: mixing media to create new forms of expression. Granted, most of the results are mystifying, but I've never failed to be inspired by the inventiveness of even the most opaque performance.
Posted by John Cox | April 11, 2013 8:33 PM
Posted on April 11, 2013 20:33
Hey John,
Ya all you right-sided brain people know what lies beneath and can admire it. Us left-side guys just have to look and wonder sometimes. Then admire!
Posted by Cowboy | April 11, 2013 10:58 PM
Posted on April 11, 2013 22:58
Have to say, that I had no idea who she was or what she's known for.
Had she been born 75 years earlier, she very easily could have been the inventor of the kazoo.
Posted by Dr. Bob | April 11, 2013 11:28 PM
Posted on April 11, 2013 23:28
Hey Cowboy
You seem to be suffering from a very common misconception that creative sorts are cut form a different cloth. Human beings are NATURALLY CREATIVE all the time. Some of us spend our lives training our brains to deny the importance of sky-blue thinking and purely believe and act on a "rational" "scientific evidence" approach that is actually UNNATURAL and must be beat into us.
Human beings are first and foremost CREATIVE and bloom when not fettered with suffocating FORMULA.
I'm trying to suggest you and I are not so different; we're set to different priorities, that's all.
Posted by John Cox | April 11, 2013 11:43 PM
Posted on April 11, 2013 23:43
I had never heard of her. Just finished watching parts of a number of YouTube vids.
To me, to be creative is to give meaning. Meaning need not be formulaic, but it is by nature systematic.
We each like what we like...
... & that's all I have to say about that.
Posted by Terwiliger | April 12, 2013 3:39 AM
Posted on April 12, 2013 03:39
I used to play her stuff when I was on WKDU in college. Odd, but brilliant. One of the most clever bits was she took a violin, replaced the strings with a magnetic tape head and replaced the bow with a strip of reel-to-reel tape with a phrase recorded on it. Through the course of the song she played more and more of the phrase by drawing it across the playback head.
Brilliant idea, although the phrase was surreal, which wasn't revealed until the end of the song. "I dreamed I had to take a test... in a Dairy Queen... on another planet."
Posted by Mauser | April 12, 2013 4:48 AM
Posted on April 12, 2013 04:48
Hey John:
All I know is that the best I can draw is stick people, clouds, and square houses with windows.. LOL. I do admire artistic people for this reason.
Posted by Cowboy | April 12, 2013 8:51 PM
Posted on April 12, 2013 20:51
Hey cowboy
Those are just skills, easily taught. Having something compelling to say WITH those skills, ARTISTIC EXPRESSION
You've exhibited as much creative energy in a well-thought comment as can be found in your drawing. The CREATIVE IMPULSE is already built in.
Posted by John Cox | April 12, 2013 9:48 PM
Posted on April 12, 2013 21:48