On Sunday 07 June 2009 02:37, Take a wild, friggin guess wrote:
> An excellent post and full of insightful information; thanks for sharing
> it. I can definitely agree with the "whitewashing the past" bit. Every
> artist starts off at the bottom. My work from the mid- to late-nineties
> pales in comparison to what I can do now, though folks still remember my
> old stuff. Annoyingly enough, they also frequently recall the 3-4 cervix
> shot pictures I did, quickly forgetting the 400+ other drawings I had
> produced. Aarrrrghh!
Oh, people are good at remembering _what_ was drawn, but they will generally
visualize it in the artist's current or final style and skill level.
To add another signpost for how long this "evil bits of fandom" stuff had been
around: Rich Chandler wrote his _Mass Graves_ editorial in early 1996.
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Chakat Firepaw - Inventor & Scientist (Mad)
Received on Sun Jun 07 2009 - 17:01:57 CDT