Re: J&G H/P network community newsletter ISSUE 4

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> It is a worthwhile page. As far as being no better than TV, well, that's
> debatable. Not all of us can create graphic art. Some of us can only
> appreciate the work of others. I have no specific requests; I just love to
> see the work of people with genuine talent. I prefer it here where it is
> dynamic, but his web page is a repository of stuff that has gone by that I
> might never see again otherwise. Have you been to Joan's page? No better
> than TV? Hardly!

I love Joan's pages, they really got that personal touch.
 
> I look at pages like Erik's much the way I do art galleries. Do you feel
> also that art galleries and museums are no better than TV? Is everything
> non-interactive, not worth having? Michelangelo isn't going to do anything
> new. If nobody had bothered to preserve what he did do, the world would be a
> much poorer place. One day, the people here won't be doing anything new
> either. I hope this stuff gets preserved, and I look rather kindly on the
> people who have the energy and emotion to take on that task.
> 
> TV is not a medium for quality. In terms of creative energy, the web is
> still exciting and dynamic. TV is mundane, repetitive, and creatively
> stifling. The web may go that route when the advertisers and cable companies
> overrun it, but not quite yet. Certainly there is crud on the web, but there
> is much that is worthwhile, and a lot of the crud is *so* cruddy that it too
> is sort of creative in a schlock kind of way - like all those great
> not-quite-grade-B movies that were so unintentionally hilarious.
> 
> Well, like everybody else, this is just my opinion.

And I think it's a great opinion!
Anyone else got anything to add to this debate?

As far as I'm conserned, me and J. are friends now, as he has explained
a few things, and I've explained a few things, and all is back to
normal, I guess.
But if anyone else has an opinion, I appreciate it.
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