The saying goes 'familiarity breeds contempt' and it couldn't be more true - when you are an artist or a writer and you don't get your book further out than your immediate area you will hit a very, very large wall of indifference. It isn't that people don't like you, and not that they don't… Continue reading Contempt
Tag: Art
Tips Off The Top
As far as I have had my blogs, and we’re talking a lot of time now, a lot of years, since nearly 2000 so that’s a lot of years and a lot of rambling and as much as I may like to think I have nothing but pearls of wisdom and deep thoughts to offer… Continue reading Tips Off The Top
Woo! 500 posts. Woo…And Some Book Stuffs!
I was totally going to honor this momentous occasion with a deep, impassioned post about blogging these, wow, last ten years + but, darn it, I wanted to share some more book stuff so that shall have to wait. Odds are it'd just be stuff I have already said anyway. HA. I have had an awful… Continue reading Woo! 500 posts. Woo…And Some Book Stuffs!
Perspective
Perspective Maybe there is something more to the Biblical story of Lot’s wife than we always realize. Something perhaps not intended but which is there just the same. Looking over one’s shoulder back to the past can be a dangerous, sometimes deadly thing. There is glamour to the past, a haze that makes you forget… Continue reading Perspective
The Horror Movie As Gross-Out Joke
There is something about horror, extreme horror, that plays a bit like a classic gross out joke. Oh, you know the kind, the baby in blender sorta jokes that kids tell each other on the bus ride home. The sorta jokes that you tell when an adult isn’t around because you know they won’t… Continue reading The Horror Movie As Gross-Out Joke
Reign It In
There's a lesson you need to learn, and learn quickly, as you go out and start doing art shows, book shows, conventions, or get involved in putting together events - the need to reign it in. What you find, in all of those scenarios, is that you are entering a world that while new to… Continue reading Reign It In
Knowing When to Say When
I think one of the harder things to do not just as an arty person but as a person in general is to know to say 'when' and to back away from a project. Most of us hate to admit defeat and we hate the idea that something can get the better of us but… Continue reading Knowing When to Say When
Dangerous Arts
There is something that we tend to forget in our modern world of safe, mass consumptive art. Our world of art for the masses. We forget that art is dangerous. That at its heart, art is barely restrained chaos. Is a thing with teeth that, while usually tamed, can bite. I need to bring up… Continue reading Dangerous Arts
Own Your Dream
There is a scary trend that seems to be creeping into the Arts, and into life in general and that is the Get Rich Quick mentality of dreams. There is a sense that one's dream is SO important that others should want to make it come true and that it should supersede the dreams of… Continue reading Own Your Dream
Natural Bored Salesman
I am no sales person. Salesman. Whatever. I ain't it. I wish I was, I do, really. A lot of my jobs I have had would have been waaay easier. Alas, it was not meant to be. I hate asking for help and asking someone to buy something, pitching them on something, is just not… Continue reading Natural Bored Salesman
Free For All
I mentioned in my last post MY theories on why the Arts have been in a slow motion decline. There's no science or research in my opinion outside of simply being in a small scene and seeing how things seem to be trending. One of the issues I brought up was the idea of cost. … Continue reading Free For All
You Know, Without The Pretense
Oh to live in a world of art without pretension. A world of writers without grandstanding. Le sigh. There is something of a mystery with artsy folk and writers. There’s a sense of disdain for other people that work in their same trade. It’s sort of like how petty music people will act when the… Continue reading You Know, Without The Pretense
A Glimpse Of The Shadow
This is one of the many pictures I took today for the cover of A Shadow Over Ever. You get a feel for what I am aiming for, the general idea I was going for, without seeing the for real-real image I have chosen. I wanted something that evoked Pete Anders, the main character… Continue reading A Glimpse Of The Shadow
The Spooky World of Chris Ringler 