Getting into Go
Nov05
on 11/05/2015
at 12:01 am
Ready-Steady… Go! Randie seems to have gotten her Vespid motor running. One can get the motivated when things are put into the realm of possibility. Ryan is such a positive influence on her… spouse-rs can be like that.
The three things most dreaded by anyone in power: satirists, musicians with opinions, and motivated artists. If you look at all the most successful political figures in history they always have a vast investment in the arts, from Napoleon’s many portraits displaying his proud work ethic to Hitler’s Triumph of the Will. Leaders who ignore the creative forces suffer heavily, such as everyone who got railed on by anti-vietnam musicians, and the powers that be during the french revolution when The Death of Marat was on display. Artists really have taken over the world at times, or at least given it a very firm shaking!
Well just look at cartoonists as world opinionators and world changers… Daumier (French cartoonist) was imprisoned for his very unflattering portrayal of the king)… Of course, you have the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists who were thought to be a threat for drawing Mohammad. Cartoons are powerful medium. Punch Magazine was incredibly… Oh, here I go… I’m getting crazy on the subject. Yay, Art!
By all means, get crazy! Many an artist has and it’s usually a pretty interesting ride! Just remember where you parked your car, so to speak.
Just make sure you don’t have to buy any coffee from Java Bob while you’re there…
Often times, whilst you are hanging art, the kind baristas will offer a joe for the task of putting up your work on their walls. At least the finer establishments do… all artists love to hear that awesome question “What can I get you to drink? … on the house.”
Always good to have a goal. Or a deadline. Both are excellent motivators.
Indeed… it’s amazing how the lack of a deadline will slow the process.
In the early 1970s Punch magazine ran a series of “articles” entitled “From Our Ugandan Correspondent” purporting to be the dispatches of President Idi Amin. They were hilarious, as the one in which Idi recommended to Gerald Ford that he appoint not just one vice-president but 15. Idi explained that he did this himself so that they would all be plotting against each other and not against old Number One.
The series was so funny that the government of Uganda (Idi himself, of course) made an official protest to the British Government to stop them. Somebody put the arm on Punch and the series was dropped. Then came the Entebbe Raid on July 4, 1976. The next issue of Punch carried a dispatch form Idi reporting on his “great victory” at the “Battle o’ Entebbe.” The one after that had a long piece of Idi reporting how the “damn popperlace” was running rampant through the presidential palace, destroying a “thousand years of civilization, well five maybe” and that the time was coming to put the old family lugar in the mouth and pull the trigger. After that the series ended.
It’s a shame Punch is defunct.
When traveling in London a few years ago, I visited the Cartoon Art Museum there (yes, they have one)… and they had a room devoted to Punch and the evolution of the comics. I was impressed. What amazed me, recently, was to find out the Ireland doesn’t really have a cartoon culture. They didn’t have a funny pages situation like we did starting in the early 1900’s. This makes me sad that they don’t have that.
Making enough to buy coffee, hey, I’m on board.
It’s the artists’ motto, really.