http://www.lindsredding.com/2012/03/11/a-overdue-lesson-in-perspective/
"This hybridisation of the arts and business is nothing new of course –
it’s been going on for centuries – but they have always been
uncomfortable bed-fellows. But even artists have to eat, and the fuel of
commerce and industry is innovation and novelty. Hey! Let’s trade. “Will
work for food!” as the street-beggars sign says."
A wonderful essay. Via Muse, who added:
"Linds Redding, a New Zealand-based art director who worked at BBDO and
Saatchi & Saatchi, died last month at aged 52 from an inoperable
esophageal cancer. What he has to say here needs to be apparent to
everyone. We need to stop and take a good hard look at what we are doing
and what it really means. We then need to start creating real
alternatives to life as we know it, rather than sticking a bandaid on
certain bits and hoping the problem will go away."
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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http://www.sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
