Colin Perini

Came across a few artists on a social site who think that the only real artists are those who have been formerly trained. It's a very narrow and strange way of seeing art.

All Colleges, Universities, Institutions etc. are products of the system. They are corporate in their thinking and traditional in their training. They are extensions of the government and hence present careful, institutionalised attitudes. They are mechanical production lines that produce trained monkeys.

Some of these monkeys are able to break out of their training and become great artists, but most cling to the few rules they learned as they try to make it in the practical world of art.

Art is an expression of the character, the personality. How can anyone tell you what you are and how you should express it? How can people who are not successful artists teach you how to be a successful artist?

The system sucks and if you want to follow its foolish ways, then you will probably suck too!

Ever wondered why monks and other religious fanatics get a look of serenity about them?

Society of course has painted a romantic picture about them being close to perfection or a god or some other mystical, magic power.

Want to know what the true situation is?

They are all brain dead. They are comatose from not living in the real word. They have spent their lives not working, without family responsibilities, not paying taxes or even having to make an effort to get food or clothing.

Put a child in a mind-numbing situation where he is not allowed to think, be an individual or make an effort and you will end up with an idiot.

Reality is not always obvious!

Careful! Creativity is not welcome here

It’s not easy being an artist, especially if you are normal.
If you do all of the normal things that most other people do and believe all of the ordinary things that most other people do, there is not much chance that you will ever be extra-ordinary!
If you want to be creative, you cannot be ordinary, you need to learn to be extraordinary.
The media pounds people’s minds into submission so that we all think the same way, buy the same products, mock the same ideas and follow our leaders as if sensible is the only way to go.
Creativity requires that you question the ordinary and refuse to believe the normal. It’s not easy and most creative people also become targets for normal, boring folk.
It’s not easy being an artist but creativity demands a shift away from the comfortable so that you present a new way of seeing.
Normal people are blind, a creative artist can shed some light onto life but it’s not easy because normal people resent their clichés being questioned.

I recently came across flavors.me and about.me

Both sites give you a free one page website. What a great challenge!

See what your creative mind can do with one page. Here are 3 that I did:

seascapes.me

flavors.me/seascapes

about.me/colinperini

Add your link to my comments and I will put you on my links page. Let's see how creative (funny?) you can be.

For more details see skyscapes.colinperini.com