Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:39:11 +1100
Katherine Phelps <muse [at] glasswings.com.au>
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, you wrote:
His talk is just this side of being a stand-up routine. I kept wanting to
tweak bits, so he could do it at a comedy club.
I loved school as a kid. I was more focussed on all the cool stuff I was
learning rather than the tests. Wasn't terribly successful in socialising with
most other kids. Didn't always get along with the teachers. But I survived it
and now work in the arts.
<lecture>All kids are born creative, not all have the temperament to be
steadfastly and authentically themselves and thereby become artists. That's a
bit of romantic twaddle. Not only do they have to hold back the heavy push
into STEM subjects at school, their peer group and parents ALSO collude in
trying to direct them toward the main stream. Artists aren't delicate things,
they have to be damn tough to stick with it enough to succeed. Some don't
succeed until late in their life. Robert Frost published his first book at 39.
Robert Motherwell's art attracted it's greatest attention when he was
74.</lecture>
Just sayin' :)
Peace,
Katherine
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This TED 20 min lecture is awesome. I love every word this guy uttered.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY
His talk is just this side of being a stand-up routine. I kept wanting to
tweak bits, so he could do it at a comedy club.
I loved school as a kid. I was more focussed on all the cool stuff I was
learning rather than the tests. Wasn't terribly successful in socialising with
most other kids. Didn't always get along with the teachers. But I survived it
and now work in the arts.
<lecture>All kids are born creative, not all have the temperament to be
steadfastly and authentically themselves and thereby become artists. That's a
bit of romantic twaddle. Not only do they have to hold back the heavy push
into STEM subjects at school, their peer group and parents ALSO collude in
trying to direct them toward the main stream. Artists aren't delicate things,
they have to be damn tough to stick with it enough to succeed. Some don't
succeed until late in their life. Robert Frost published his first book at 39.
Robert Motherwell's art attracted it's greatest attention when he was
74.</lecture>
Just sayin' :)
Peace,
Katherine
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E-Mail: muse@glasswings.com.au
BA (Hons), MFA, PhD
http://www.glasswings.com.au/
Nothing can withstand the powers of love, laughter and imagination
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