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mattart@netcom.com (Mattison) wrote:

>So the saga continues.....
>
>With a negative 39 philanthropy rating in Silly Icon Valley Cleveland 
>...wherever that is is kicking your little BMW's by 70 HUGE points
>
>FOR ShAME!

	Hmm...I just moved here from Oregon and don't own a BMW. (I
drive my little '85 Honda Accord which your lovely state is going to
want me to pay 1/3 of its value to register, but that's a different
matter).

>... the 
>California Legislature gives us more wonderful proof 
>of your lack of support in the arts....
>
>and cultural illiteracy....
>
>For SHAmE!

I believe you should re-read your posts before you start accusing
illiteracy.  The english language is an art, too, you know.  Your
image on the net is how you portray yourself using the written world.

>and it only took 5 years to get ba.art after I requested it....
>
>EHmmmm ... 
>
>Like I said....
>
>Geeks Cultural Illiterates.....

Usenet has rules pertaining to creation of newsgroups.  If it took you
five years, you really were not working hard enough.  I mean this.  If
you could not publicise to enough people to get a vote through (I
usually vote yes just for kicks), its your fault.

>Let me know when you change the world....
>
>Art is in and Armegedon is out boys....

Huh? (I do support the Milenium clock project, though--its cool)


>The following frmo CA Lawyers for the Arts Newsletter - Artistic License 
>Volume 7 No. 1....
>
>"California now ranks 46th in per capita spending on the arts _ at 36 
>cents per person.  While New York recently increased its Arts Council 
>budget to over 40 Million, the budget for the California Arts Council is 
>only 12.7 million.
>
>Senator Adam B Schiff, Chair of the Joint Committee on the Arts, has 
>intorduced Senate Bill 1373, calling for an investment of at least 1$ per 
>capita in the arts.  This proposed increase n the budget for the  
>California Arts Council, to 35 million, recognizes the critical fole of 
>the arts and evtyertainment in the states economic activity in California.
>The arts generate ove 2 billion in annual economic activity in 
>California"
> and every dollar spent on te arts turns t 20.00 back to the 
>commmunity.
>
>Ehhhmmm Geeks ?
>Got your attention did I ....
>
>Pholcatscratch ?

Gazeundheit.

>(Who anyway...is gonna buy those art computers all you people are making ?  
>Ask all those who got laid off at SGI maybe ? Right ?)

	I work for a company which makes a multi-media rich operating
system.  We deal in sound, video, midi, and quite a few other cool
things.  While we call ourselves Geeks (our hardware, now defunct,
included the "GeekPort"), we are also artists.  I could probably go in
to work and point a finger at any person there, and they would be able
to play (and usually have in their office) a musical instrument.  We
have actors, singers, visual artists, and musicians, and we are all
geeks.  Just because we do not give money to your pet projects does
not mean we are not contributing to the arts.
	Talent is not free, and thus, neither is art.  However, if you
want money for your art, sell it.  The sad thing is I pretty much
agree with you.  Children are being regimented and most art is being
downplayed as a hobby or wasted time.  I dislike your methods
intensely, however.  You're playing to the wrong crowd.  Geeks
UNDERSTAND technology, and in most cases understand art.  You should
be focusing on teachers who still think that adding more computers is
going to produce better students and politicians who spend their money
in the wrong places.
	I can understand how you are pissed that your painting was
misapropriated and turned into an Internet postcard...but don't assume
that all Geeks are that dense.

>Mattison Fitzgerald
>Artist
>http://www.rhinodev.com/M
Is your movement anything more then a bunch of icons?  Who gave YOU
that title of "Art Police?"

>http://www.msnbc.com/news/162707.asp
...sheesh...looks like Microsoft uses the same writers for code as for
news articles...

BTW: the company I work for: http://www.be.com

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