posted March 01, 2008 03:28 PM              

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"It's just a ride & we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings & money, a choice, right now, between fear & love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off, the eyes of love instead see all of us as one".....

posted March 01, 2008 03:28 PM              

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People are monumentally stupid. Thats also reality. We let them get to us. That because we're people too, and also stupid

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posted March 01, 2008 03:36 PM            

It is definitely important, as an artist, to see the whole picture. The pros and the cons of whatever is being sensuously experienced must be brought into account for the sake of discriminating the path of one's thoughts, feelings and actions in light of this perception. I have often struggled with the ability to see these pros and cons, these opposites so ingrained within our physical condition, because the ability to see these two sides with a depth of feeling provides a difficulty in my ability to make strong decisions and convictions. There must be a balance and I know for certain that I have been much too weak in that regard.

I must agree that these new technologies have their place in the world. One of my genius professors spoke of this exact sentiment when he provided an example to us. He was mentioning how there is this new printing technology coming out that uses magnetism and metallic inks to make prints that need only one run on the machine, as opposed to the printers today [with which a full-color print would take a minimum of four runs on the machine with the four plates of each color (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black)]. This new technology is introduced onto the market and creates a demand within the printing industry. Once a few companies apply this cutting-edge technology to their businesses and experience an increased efficiency in their workload, all the other companies will domino along in the hopes of keeping up with their competition. Now, though these old, outdated printing presses may fall out of favor with the industry, it also opens doors for a more creative, unconventional use of these machines by people who will find them for much lower, more fiscally reasonable prices. These older presses print through the use of plates, each containing the informations for the print by a single color. Each plate will correspond to one color. For example, a full-color print will be run through four times, generally, for all it really needs is one plate for cyan, one for magenta, one for yellow, and one for black to produce a range of enough colors to reproduce photographic images. Since these presses will become more accessible to people who are more willing to experiment and exploit the possibilities of these machines, we will begin to see prints made by artists that could possibly have taken 24 different plates to make out 24+ different colors. The possibilities for new and experimental methods opens up with the introduction of newer technologies in the industry.

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Putting something together, however it is done, is an act of creation.

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Indeed! And the creation is the direct manifestation of the creator's absolute condition or, at least, it has the potential to be. That is why God is God and man is man. It is why in a field as mundane as advertising can be, one can sometimes still observe the work of genius behind these oeuvres through their insight, passion and creativity.

Thank you for this post.

posted March 01, 2008 05:16 PM            

Thanks, NosiS.
Informative.

You're not in advertising, are you?

posted March 01, 2008 11:20 PM              

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present... we must think anew and act anew.”
Abraham Lincoln