The New Blather

This interesting article on Cartoon Brew features a look at Disney’s Burbank studio back when it was being planned.  Blogger Amid Amidi writes: But more than the lack of charm, the Burbank studio’s ostentatious in-your-face luxuriousness suggested a certain tone deafness on Walt Disney’s part. It rankled the hundreds of artists who were struggling to [...]

Someone posted this on Facebook, and I quite liked it… It’s a bit raunchy though, but it’s Stephen Fry. I would recommend listening to it, but not actually watching it, because the camera man will drive you insane. I don’t agree with his philosophical theories on the origins and purposes of dance, but that’s beside [...]

While most people will agree that art is subjective and that it’s OK for tastes to be somewhat different, there’s often also this underlying belief that there are certain objective standards that make certain works of art objectively greater than others. For example, an English teacher might understand how his students might have different opinions [...]

Sometimes when I read reviews, the reviewer will say something like: “I really wanted to like this, but… blah, blah, blah.” This phrase really annoys me. Taken at face value, it seems like an attempt of the reviewer to place the ultimate blame for his disliking on the creators. After all, how can it be [...]

I’ve been thinking about the artist’s creed. At least my version of it. This is all just my advice to artists from personal experience. Not that I have that much personal experience or have achieved anything very famous, but still… For now, there are only three. I might think of some more later on as [...]

Here’s another post from Elizabeth King, whose blog I critiqued in an earlier post.  This post is really just a graphic, but it’s still interesting… Overall, I appreciate (that is, I like) the author’s overall goal of encouraging people to be more creative.  This graphic though seems to suggest that an artist’s creative process involves [...]

[All uses of the word "you" are general; they are just to you, the reader, not to any particular person.] Yesterday I blogged a response to an article about art education, and I used the word “snob” a lot, which angered some people (of course… it reads very insultingly, and not very many people want [...]

I’m not against people defending arts education.  I just don’t like seeing people doing it blindly. I read this article from a link I saw on my twitter feed: Arts Education and Civilization: This Isn’t Child’s Play [UPDATE: Please also check out the comments!  I throw around the word "snob" a lot below, but my [...]