Re: FLASH: Weekend OT cogitations

[David Gary Studios]

The "intrepid"  William Skyvington wrote:

>Many people such as our friend DG (not to mention the outspoken author of
>the ugly "killer"-inspired best-seller) don't seem to understand that the
>creation of an ingenious Web site is a matter of combining many talents in
>an outstanding fashion. Let me put it bluntly in a caricatural manner:

>      If you can't handle words like Vonnegut,
>      and graphics like Warhol,
>      and ideas like a CNN reporter,
>      and common sense like William Skyvington,
>      and a whole lot of other things...
>      then you should be wary about the idea 
>     of proclaiming yourself as a Flash genius.

>David Gary is probably not insane (?), but he's surely not (whatever he
>might think) a reincarnation of Leonardo de Vinci. Maybe he has moved out
>in his smart cat-like marketing fashion onto the wrong branch (which is
>automatically "right" for a marketing-motivated customer), because he now
>has to write sentences that start with a subject and end with a verb and an
>object. And David, in spite of all his ingenious software, doesn't know how
>to solve that horrible equation. He can't write a sentence without
>mistakes... as if Leonardo spilt blue paint on his pastel backgrounds. Will
>he ever learn? (My bet is no.) David Gary is an incomplete frustrated
>artist, trapped by words, like Leonardo without wings... and he shouldn't
>be shouting out his large mouth (to my way of thinking) as if he were a
>genius, which he surely isn't.

>This message is NOT an off-topic quarrel-making thing. On the contrary, I'm
>doing my utmost (maybe vainly) in an attempt to get you all back onto the
>right path about the basic challenges of web-site creation. Sensitive
>readers might read between the lines. And friends might even reply by
>private e-mail...

>THERE IS FLASH AFTER-LIFE BEYOND DAVID GARY!!!

>Don't feel sorry for him. David Gary is currently deriving untold priceless
>marketing advantages from my present e-mail. In case you hadn't noticed,
>he's a marketing man much more than an artist...

 

Mr, Skyvington,

What a work of craftsmanship in itself. This is beautiful and I'm literally in tears, really, a true work of art and a indication that Mr Skyvington has more time on his hands than I could ever wish for. An individual who has shown more eradication of both good cop/bad cop personality than I could ever had ever hoped to portray. And even though I sit here wet eyed in "awe" of the creation I read in front of me, I would like to play his game and dare hope to only scratch the surface in matching such poetic license, I simply do not have the time nor the patience, however truly genius it may be. I must say Mr S., you should be battling it out on a columnist list(if it were not for your grammatical errors), not a flash developer's group, since we've been inspired by such choice of words instead of any indication of your own "Flash(TM)" work. (Sob), this is just beautiful. I am stunned and would love to try to think up such interesting incarnations accompanied by such a vast vocabulary. You are truly an information architect with no need for flashy graphics or visual technique. I must compliment you on your effective drive to show all of us the way this list _should_ be.

I usually dont work on weekends because that is time for my family, but fortunately for me I had to because of a deadline.

Just food for thought, Warhol was not a true artist, but instead a interior decorator with a unmatched and witty talent for marketing himself as an "Artist" in the public eye and by surrounding himself with Celebrities. It also made him one. His success was mostly due to his entourage, not his "Talent".

Leonardo was also neither and artist or a true designer, but an inventor with chicken scratch penmanship and a horrible drawing talent that knew nothing of the importance of efficient function. It was his Barbaric and beautiful, simplistic style that made him an icon for invention, not the inventions themselves, since most of them did not work, nor were they that practical.

I have never claimed, nor will I, to be like either of these people, Just wanted to correct you there, since it seems your whole campaign here is based on a comparison of artistic immortality. And the comment about claiming to be a flash genius is way off, unless you are speaking of flash developers as a whole. In my case, I seek to be a better marketer of my ideas than a lowly flash applicator. Someone who can effectively sell you a rock from my driveway with nothing more than a cool package design(blanket included) and an effective advertising campaign, for this is a "true" artist in my eyes.

And even though I am in awe of your accomplishment here, I somehow feel I have stooped to the bowels of anything this list could create. A monster that has truly eaten away at any reality any individual would seek here. I am truly sorry for that.

Yes sir, you are truly and "Artist" and I certainly can not match the disturbing and entertaining light you have lit this weekend.

 

You have won!

 

-DG-

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-David Gary-

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