Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Equal opportunity? Apparently not.

I was asked to go to an art show, and vehemently declined. I'm not a fan of art, especially art with a thinly disguised social commentary. Only thing is, if someone else had asked me instead of this person, the answer would have been drastically different. So am I not truly as anti-humanities as I fancy myself to be, or am I just far too easily influenced into doing things I don't want to based on the company? And if it's the former, what the hell am I doing producing art films?

So apparently I don't hate all forms of art. Then again, who's to say art has to exist solely in Art? You can easily find aesthetic value in a particularly efficient computer program (not that I'd know...yet) or a well-executed web layout (while bleachfilm.com is not ideal, there are aspects I am exceedingly proud of). Most of all in writing...turns of phrase that just give you a chill, or roll deliciously off your tongue when you read it out loud...but that one's a little more commonly recognized, methinks. This is why I love xkcd: the guy obviously knows what I'm rambling about a lot better than I do. Maybe once I delve a little deeper it'll get clearer.

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