i need a new motivation to make art, besides work and contests.
i wanna put the create back in creative.

there are a gazillion art categories featured in da, most of which i am competent in and have come to love doing.


and while that may sound like a good thing, there actually is a huge downside to it.


being able to do a lot of things means not being able to focus on any of them. that means not being able to truly excel in anything. i want to make art that is better than good. but with so many mediums, where do i start? i can only do so much with one body and one lifetime.

i used to want sam guthrie's power. now i think i want jamie madrox's more.

barring technical merit and subjectivity, can anyone objectively deem one medium better than another?

my bullish art.

homage or plagiarism. inspiration or imitation.

how can you tell?

...is not like fucking for virginity, no matter how clever you may think the analogy is.

i'm kinda getting tired of seeing this dopey line in "conceptual photographs" and bullshit propaganda. it's not like i'm advocating war or anything (although i must admit that actual combat does have its thrills) but geez, at least try considering other points of view first before you let yourself get swept up by the words of hippies and religious nuts who can't be bothered to get decent jobs -- which isn't to say that all peace advocates are like that. just some. or most.

i think fighting for peace is more like spending money to make money. yeah, you deliberately try to lose it at first but this is so you can, hopefully, get it back probably two- or ten-fold. and that's what i think fighting for peace is about. laying on a bully an unholy serving of smackdown lest the rest of the school never know peace.

and i'm all for that.