Re: computers suck creative energy

["Tony K" <bigtonyk@gmail.com>]

> The vast majority of lottery winners lives are destroyed by the 
>overwhelming
> power of money. Perhaps it's best to stay humble and poor? NOT!

I think I'd take my chances! :)

Work is a double edged sword.  It pays for me to buy all the stuff I
have, but it zaps my energy so I don't always feel like playing with
all that stuff...  and I get sucked into computer games.. hehe

I have a hell of a lot of respect for all of you out there who make a
living as musicians or artists.  I come from a family with a bunch of
artists and growing up I could see how tough it was.  I was a fairly
decent artist as a teen and I got asked quite a bit if that's what I
was going to do "when I grew up"  but nope, I saw how really really
hard it was.  I also realized that I didn't have that kind of
motivation.  My grandfather (who was very good and made a decent
living at it) told me that being an artist was 10% art and 90% real
work.

I discovered computers and well, that was that.  I was hooked.  It
took a few years for the technology to mature (I started on a VIC20 in
'82), but I think it's great that I can meld my artist/musician
interests with my PC skills.

Still, I'd like to be able to spend my time writing music and doing
art than sitting in an office writing software.

Tony

On Nov 29, 2007 3:31 PM, chuck silva <chucksilva1@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Very good points Tony!
>
> Computers are awesome creative tools if you're willing to 'practice'
> learning the software!!!
>
> The vast majority of lottery winners lives are destroyed by the 
>overwhelming
> power of money. Perhaps it's best to stay humble and poor? NOT!
>
>  Chuck Silva
> http://www.myspace.com/chucksilva
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Tony K <bigtonyk@gmail.com>
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 1:24:13 PM
> Subject: Re: computers suck creative energy
>
>
>  >This is a great thread which is very revealing.
>
> Yeah, definitely.  I thought about it a bit last night while not being
> able to sleep.  I don't find that computers suck my creative energy.
> But, I'm a computer nerd and programmer, so it's become second nature
> for me to tweak and play with PCs.  I think (to me) the computer
> maintenance and setup is not really that different from changing
> strings or getting the kinks out of the tangle of wires and stuff.
> Now I have an extreme number of little electronic boxes so I'm not
> typical as far as that goes.  And learning software is like practice.
> Not always fun, but necessary.  If I spent as much time with Sonar as
> I have practicing that guitar, I'd be a freaking expert.
>
> For me, a computer has added way more toward me being creative than
> it's sucked the energy out.  It's just in how you look at it, I guess.
>  PCs can be very frustrating.  They are complicated little buggers.
> And sometimes, yeah, the breakdown RIGHT when it's most irritating.
> But then, so is breaking a guitar string in the middle of a creative
> whirlwind.  Or having to replace a battery, or cable, or uh... why
> isn't the MIDI signal getting from the kbd to the rack it worked
> yesterday!... or why is the damn guitar buzzing again...
>
> The thing that sucks the most creative energy out of me is having to
> work!  Damn.
>
> What's that lottery up to??
>
> --
> -==-=-=-
> Tony