http://tribes.tribe.net/black-rock-city/threads/rss Tribe.net. Local Connections http://tribes.tribe.net/black-rock-city/thread/4ba7caa6-6edf-46fa-9eef-2e0df2a47802 <div>. <br/> <br/>What am I going to write about? To give a firm answer to that question, before I've written more than a few lines would be premature, but I can say what a lot of this will be about. <br/> <br/>Burning Man has, as a community, sometimes defined itself in a surprisingly self-deprecating manner, as a place where a thousand grand ideas are executed poorly. Why poorly? In part, I think because of an unspoken belief that one's work should be wholly and absolutely original, leaving the creator without any need to acknowledge any creative debt to those who went before him. Modernism would seem to have survived, in significant part, in a supposedly postmodern environment. <br/> <br/>One thing that I will do, mostly on paper and pencil (or, on the keyboard, to be more exact), is try to build on what others have done, offering ideas of how those ideas might be further pursued. My funds are limited and those I know are, oh, the way they are, so work on the sketchpad may be the best I can offer for a while. "The way they are, Joseph?" We're talking Midwestern cultural conservatism at its utter worst, but let's not dwell on that. I'll just play with the art, a little, and see what I can come up with. Or not, in many cases; I won't pretend to be an accomplished artist. <br/> <br/>Just an interested one. <br/> <br/> <br/>. </div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/black-rock-city">Embers / Journal</a> - 2 replies </div> Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:50:55 GMT http://tribes.tribe.net/black-rock-city/thread/4ba7caa6-6edf-46fa-9eef-2e0df2a47802 blackrockcity 2011-09-09T03:50:55Z