Amen Jeff. Words to live by. I got too bogged down in negativity early in my life. I can't get those years back. I try to be way more positive now.
I am getting the feeling the differences here are generational.
I for one am glad to be on the short end.
Tin Can
Slightly off-topic but what does that translate to?Originally Posted by Randy Moe
Sounds like those two sentences together mean he takes pride in being a codger.
Being on the 'short end' is a contraction of being on the 'short end of the stick'.
In my usage here, it means I won't live long enough to enjoy this entire century, which also means I am old and in the way.
Bless, our children, they will need it.
Tin Can
This is primarily for Corran (Bryan) and concerns how the music industry is affected with digital freedom. royalties and theft.
BitTorrent for you non linkers.
Imagine 3D printing as it evolves to life size and beyond. Even sculpture will be easily stolen and copied. A sculpture by Auguste Rodin on every lawn!
Actually I am all for science and technology as it is our only hope for the future.
I also imagine even construction workers being displaced with laser demolition and massive 3D printing using the dust that remains. Of course we may need more juice, or maybe not.
Tin Can
Bryan I think you are 30, you may see 90% of this century.Neither will most of us here!!
Tin Can
I think I understand it better now, thanks! I had got the ' short end of the stick'part - couldn't relate it to the artist and royalties here - as in whether you were saying you agreed there shouldn't be any and hence you were on the short end side or otherwise.
Your last post clarifies that, if I understand correctly.
I'm guessing that Randy's perspective is seeing little time left in life. That's the short end. OTOH, his view might be, as mine is, that we have no idea whether we will awake for the next sunrise.
The generation thing. Well, I'm a young sixty-eight years-old and like very many here I have lived through a world-wide revolution of exposure to art and ideas, although lately much the art was via a computer monitor. That is still a good thing but I do worry that the monitor experience is seriously diminished. (Last week I went to a large show of A. Adams' work, some of which I had never seen. Tours of university students were making the rounds with notepads and chatter which is worth a separate article.)
When I was much younger, art was about going out of our way to be there in galleries and performances. My mother in particular was an art lover. Some of those experiences are burned into my consciousness such that I dream-recall them in color. However, most of what we saw were the distillations of the curators, historians, critics and marketeers while today there is a somewhat more democratic, eclectic quality that I suspect we take for granted and unfairly compare to the authoritative works of our youth.
Just a thought.
Hoping for another sunrise,
Jac
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