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Monday Feb 10, 2003
Answers and Questions
If you met Albert Einstein, would you ask him how to do long division or about his Unified Field Theory?
The answers you get, depend upon the questions you ask—and from whom.
Saturday Feb 01, 2003
The Magnificent Seven
Rocket Man
in memoriam: The Challenger Shuttle crew
set their sites high and lived a life worth living.
She packed my bags last night pre-flight
Zero hour nine a.m.
And I’m gonna be high as a kite by then
I miss the earth so much I miss my wife
It’s lonely out in space
On such a timeless flight
And I think it’s gonna be a long long time
Till touch down brings me round again to find
I’m not the man they think I am at home
Oh no no no I’m a rocket man
Rocket man burning out his fuse up here alone
Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids
In fact it’s cold as hell
And there’s no one there to raise them if you did
And all this science I don’t understand
It’s just my job five days a week
A rocket man, a rocket man
And I think it’s gonna be a long long time…
Music by Elton John
Lyrics by Bernie Taupin
Available on the album Honky Château
Thursday Jan 23, 2003
Inside Outside Art
The label “outsider art” continues to be bandied about as is “fine art"—two unfortunate terms for original work.
British art historian Roger Cardinal first used “outsider art” in 1972 to describe French artist Jean Dubuffet’s collection of art brut (or “raw art"). Starting in the 1940’s, Dubuffet visited asylums in Switzerland and collected artwork by the patients that he encountered. Dubuffet was convinced art brut resided unfettered within the works of children, criminals, and madmen. He felt, for the most part, that such work was immune from being tainted by the popular culture. Dubuffet’s own childlike artwork speaks clearly about art and the source of originality.
Does one have to be in a mental institution to produce honest work? Of course, this is nonsense.
It is also true that art from the heart and soul heals.
Sunday Jan 12, 2003
True Affluence
What is affluence? Why are there less “haves” and considerably more “have nots?” And I’m not referring only to money here. If that were the only answer, then the path would be clear. There is something called moral bankruptcy, which can become as virulent as any epidemic.
Tuesday Jan 07, 2003
Waiter or Doer
Do you make life happen or does life happen to you? Are you a player or a victim? Are you on stage or in the audience? Do you know where you stand, or not? Provoke your self into that person who wants to be born.
Test your metal and you will never turn back, and you will never be sorry.
Waiter or doer?
