Creativity - it's the Law Part II
Aug. 27th, 2008 07:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gurdymonkeyO My Readers who think you can giri me into doing something I find distasteful, you clearly do not know me personally, or you came in late to this journal, or you simply have not been paying attention. Or you're deliberately trying to make me foam at the mouth, which is messy and unattractive. Flattery will get you nowhere.
http://gurdymonkey.livejournal.com/213461.html in case you blew by it.
So, do you want to take responsibility for the neurotic monster I will become? I do, you know. I have very, VERY good reasons for not becoming involved in competitions in the SCA - and that goes for judging too,allergicone, so please don't get any ideas. I have formed those reasons after a lifetime of experiences and a great deal of thought.
Was not the whining and obsessing over a plywood box not amusing enough that you feel the need to watch me have a meltdown trying to complete anywhere from one to five*projects poorly executed hack jobs in a month? (*No. Monkey. Armor. No how.) Go watch Project Runway or something.
Have I not been enough of a pain in the ass this year?
I'll spell it out again for the latecomers:
Art is not a horse race. Certain things cannot and should not be reduced to a numerical point system. Certain things cannot and should not be compared to each other either.
If you're scribbling notes and numbers, you cannot react subjectively to the work of a performance artist because you have just built in your own distraction.
Reaction to art should be subjective. It's OK for one not to like something.
There is no such thing as objective judging - anyone who claims differently is at best, deluding themselves; at worst, lying. Even in the SCA, where all judges are fair and knowledgeable and no one ever goes home crying - or at the very least, kicking themselves for not having a crystal ball and including the answers to every judges' question in the documentation.
Now here's a question to all you do-gooders:
What is the outcome of accepting said challenge after politely saying no to quite a few people over the years who have asked me to enter (bardic) competitions or judge something in the past? Will they not be insulted? Will they think I am inconsistent? Will they lose respect for me?
What is the outcome of accepting said challenge and submitting whatever I might decide to do as "For Display Only?"
Am I going back upon my personal code by doing so? (See link posted above.)
Am I insulting the Crown because they wantto see bodies strewn around the arena a competition?
Am I insulting other entrants?
Am I cutting off my own nose to spite my face?
Am I showing off?
You bet your ass I think about these things.
http://gurdymonkey.livejournal.com/213461.html in case you blew by it.
So, do you want to take responsibility for the neurotic monster I will become? I do, you know. I have very, VERY good reasons for not becoming involved in competitions in the SCA - and that goes for judging too,
allergicone, so please don't get any ideas. I have formed those reasons after a lifetime of experiences and a great deal of thought.Was not the whining and obsessing over a plywood box not amusing enough that you feel the need to watch me have a meltdown trying to complete anywhere from one to five*
Have I not been enough of a pain in the ass this year?
I'll spell it out again for the latecomers:
Art is not a horse race. Certain things cannot and should not be reduced to a numerical point system. Certain things cannot and should not be compared to each other either.
If you're scribbling notes and numbers, you cannot react subjectively to the work of a performance artist because you have just built in your own distraction.
Reaction to art should be subjective. It's OK for one not to like something.
There is no such thing as objective judging - anyone who claims differently is at best, deluding themselves; at worst, lying. Even in the SCA, where all judges are fair and knowledgeable and no one ever goes home crying - or at the very least, kicking themselves for not having a crystal ball and including the answers to every judges' question in the documentation.
Now here's a question to all you do-gooders:
What is the outcome of accepting said challenge after politely saying no to quite a few people over the years who have asked me to enter (bardic) competitions or judge something in the past? Will they not be insulted? Will they think I am inconsistent? Will they lose respect for me?
What is the outcome of accepting said challenge and submitting whatever I might decide to do as "For Display Only?"
Am I going back upon my personal code by doing so? (See link posted above.)
Am I insulting the Crown because they want
Am I insulting other entrants?
Am I cutting off my own nose to spite my face?
Am I showing off?
You bet your ass I think about these things.
