Someone's an artist if they call themselves an artist. It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. It's a human right to choose one's own identity.
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some people get considered celebrities because they go to parties and > look pretty in magazines. > > If somebody does something that I consider art and you consider not > clever enough to be art, or just the product of someone with too much > free time, what does it matter? Is anybody losing out? Is other art > devalued? I'm not so comfortable with drawing a line between what's > acceptable or 'professional' enough to be considered art and what's not. > > I think that's key to what a lot of people do here and how it's seen > by the outside world. > > Rupert > http://twittervlog.tv > > On 29-Oct-08, at 10:40 AM, sull wrote: > > anybody is an artist... > nobody is an artist... > > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:49 AM, David Terranova > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > He also has a lot of free time by the looks of it. > > Some people just have the free time part, yet get considered as > artists by > > making [time-consuming but not-so-clever] gimmicks. > > Nothing wrong with that. It¹s just fascinating who gets considered > artists > > sometimes. > > > > I don¹t really know much about this guy, so I may be wrong in > including him > > in this generalization... > > > > -- > > David Terranova > > davidterranova.com > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
