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[kristin miltner]

yeah usually a positive emotion or a sweetly sad emotion, like missing
someone, or an emotion related to a crush or love.  those are okay.

my totally normal vet and i were talking -- this is someone that is not
related to my social network in any way, shape or form -- and she is not
into art because she had a couple of experiences where not only did she feel
like everyone around her and their conversations were pretentious (she was
at a gallery opening in SF, so i'm not surprised she felt that way) but she
was also daunted by the idea of their 'creativity' so much that it made it
impossible for her to relate to them. It's a sort of suspiciousness from the
supposed "left brainers"...sometimes well-deserved.


k


On 10/12/07, Ava Mendoza <ava.mendoza at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> most of the people i encounter who dislike
> experimental/improvised/new/weird music give something along the lines
> of "it's too intellectual" or "it doesn't have any heart" as their
> argument against it. which mystifies me. i think people do like to
> think of themselves as emotional or intuitive, but they mainly like a
> sort of very concrete or identifiable emotion--Happy, Sad etc--whereas
> more abstract or nebulous emotion is the thing that's frightening.
>
>
> On 10/12/07, David Slusser <slusser at pixar.com> wrote:
> > I agree, and it also seems related to the attitude
> > that music is free now. Somehow, I hesitate to
> > mock the iArtists, though, since most of us are
> > self-appointed artists as well.  (Not you folks
> > that had a title conferred on you.)
> >
> > On Oct 12, 2007, at 1:02 PM, Matthew Goodheart wrote:
> > > Yeah, I'd agree with this. I had a number of discussions a few years
> > > with folks who were cashing in on the dot com boom, and saying
> > > "there's all this dough floating around, but no ones becoming some
> > > big art patron with their new-found cash," to which those who were
> > > cashing in replied: "Of course not, all the dot com-ers think they're
> > > artists themselves."  It's just continued with the iGeneration;
> > > everyone's an artist (and an Xtreme one at that. . .)
> > >
> > > On Oct 12, 2007, at 12:46 PM, Sarah - 21 Grand wrote:
> > >
> > >> I'm sorry, I'm not buying it ... after weeks of having to look at
> > >> yahoo ads
> > >> for HP photo paper suggesting that its users could "get creative
> > >> with Gwen
> > >> Stefani," I think most normal people want to think of themselves as
> > >> creative, or aspire to some form of creativity. Isn't that the
> > >> "lesson" of
> > >> "Web 2.0"?
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kristin miltner
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