Post #536732 by bigbrotiki on Wed, Jun 16, 2010 12:33 PM

On 2010-06-16 11:40, little lost tiki wrote:
Artists are trivialized because there are so many of them
and so many of them have no business in the business
they jumped on the bandwagon for self-glorification
and since the arts are pretty open and forgiving to oddball approaches
it's hard to invalidate ANYTHING as art....

Sadly so true. And do not even think about calling that out on TC, now, where it's ALL good! This has really taken off with the internet: WHO is supposed to read all those blogs, look at all those pictures, --everybody is too busy ...with their own form of self-expression! :)

Often it is not self-glorifiaction, but the honest desire to do art -- without having the talent. And the lack of ability to take a good cold hard look at one's stuff and say "I suck at this".

I applaud Scrimshaw for not wanting to take on the moniker of artist (NOT implying his stuff sucks!)