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DonaldmBoyer · 04-05-2007, 09:54 AM

Well, now you made it sound too pointless! LOL!

Nothing is impossible.....just highly improbable that you would be able to dictate the certain emotional and nostalgic response to your audience.

It was kinda like that with my drawings back in college. They were inspired by my grandmother's death by MS and bone cancer, and the consequential guilt I felt after she died. I felt a tempest of self-loathing, wrote a book, and started doing artwork from the book. That combined with becoming uber-familiar with HR Giger led to hours spent drawing frantically twisted and demented art up at the local Ram's Horn. I sold everything (except one) for good money. That's not to say that I was a pinnacle of perfection, just had a unique style. I was good at it, made some fair coin, and enjoyed the release it brought.

But I highly doubt that the people who would stop and stare at my "little doodles" really understood where I was mentally when I was drawing them. And there were also many that would either say, "You are very talented, but I would never buy that," or something to that effect. Now, I would probably give them an icy stare, but I always knew that I wasn't trying to please all the people that would pass by. I was trying to please myself.

Organic chemisry (HA!!) was similar. You could get 40% on a test, and that would be an "A." One person out of 75 students in that class understood what the professor was trying to convey. Everyone else may have done well on the curve, but still didn't know what the hell they were learning! To me, that would be an idication that the professor should have done a better job teaching, but I guess that he felt he was doing an adaquet job and never changed a thing! So, he felt emotionally comfortable with how he was teaching, and that's all that really mattered. He didn't care too much about his audience, and frankly, I don't blame him. He was way too damn smart for us troglobites!

Anyway, get your homework done buddy! Have fun at your kegger! And for the love of God, stay away from organic chemistry if you can!

04-05-2007, 09:54 AM	#113 (permalink)
DonaldmBoyer Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: St. Louis, Missouri Posts: 1,495 iTrader Ratings: 28 iTrader Positive Rating: 100% Plant Points: 62690	Re: ADA 60cm Spring 2007 Well, now you made it sound too pointless! LOL! Nothing is impossible.....just highly improbable that you would be able to dictate the certain emotional and nostalgic response to your audience. It was kinda like that with my drawings back in college. They were inspired by my grandmother's death by MS and bone cancer, and the consequential guilt I felt after she died. I felt a tempest of self-loathing, wrote a book, and started doing artwork from the book. That combined with becoming uber-familiar with HR Giger led to hours spent drawing frantically twisted and demented art up at the local Ram's Horn. I sold everything (except one) for good money. That's not to say that I was a pinnacle of perfection, just had a unique style. I was good at it, made some fair coin, and enjoyed the release it brought. But I highly doubt that the people who would stop and stare at my "little doodles" really understood where I was mentally when I was drawing them. And there were also many that would either say, "You are very talented, but I would never buy that," or something to that effect. Now, I would probably give them an icy stare, but I always knew that I wasn't trying to please all the people that would pass by. I was trying to please myself. Organic chemisry (HA!!) was similar. You could get 40% on a test, and that would be an "A." One person out of 75 students in that class understood what the professor was trying to convey. Everyone else may have done well on the curve, but still didn't know what the hell they were learning! To me, that would be an idication that the professor should have done a better job teaching, but I guess that he felt he was doing an adaquet job and never changed a thing! So, he felt emotionally comfortable with how he was teaching, and that's all that really mattered. He didn't care too much about his audience, and frankly, I don't blame him. He was way too damn smart for us troglobites! Anyway, get your homework done buddy! Have fun at your kegger! And for the love of God, stay away from organic chemistry if you can!