What is Art? What is an Artist? Does It Matter?

I posted about this over on New Sophists’ Almanac, but I cannot resist also posting about it here. There’s a woman named Judith Scott who produces all kinds of “fiber art”, which isn’t really remarkable in itself (unless you happen to find that the artworks speak to you in a wway that they simply don’t speak to me…). Nothing remarkable at all, actually, can be said about her, except… she’s got Down’s Syndrome, severe mental handicaps, some physical handicaps too. And she very likely has no concept of art that would be recognizable to us. And yet she works at …

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eclexys updates…

I’ve been busily updating this page for a while now. You may notice the random banners on the tops of all the different pages… I’m having fun adding a few every few days, and I would like to have a lot of them up. I’ve also added feeds from other blogs where I post, including New Sophists’ Almanac, my Korean blog, and my band’s infoblog. This is a very cool. It is actually possible to add feeds for blogs that one likes, as well as one’s own blogs, since it all just works off RSS. But I won’t go there… …

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Scary People Who Like To Wear Too Much Makeup While On A Mission

Rob, who posted a comment on my friend Marvin’s blog about scary clowns, is right. This is kind of scary. Not just Liberty and Belle, but actually, almost all of the clowns in their “before” shots. They all just kind of look like scary people, except Nikki and David. David looks like a reformed goth drug user, though, and Nikki looks like a girl I used to have a crush on in grade school who ended up being an idiot and a bit of a jerk. Oooh, and she kind of resembles a sex addict I once knew. Who was …

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funny evening business

So, I finished updating the look of my website. The structure still needs some serious work, and I want a series of random banners, but for now what’s there will be fine. So here are some questions: Does everyone feel an irresistible urge to dance in his or her apartment alone when listening to Björk’s Post album? Because, yes indeed, I do. And I’m wondering if I’m the only one. (And the Homogenic album does it to me too, but less.) I think I wrote about a hundred hours’ worth of SF game stuff while listening to Björk’s music, by …

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