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[phaxda]

Got this from a friend who is on on their email list:

 

http://www.20x200.com/test/2010/12/atari.html?utm_source=20x200+Announcements&utm_campaign=df3c28d834-Thursday_Edition_Hollis_Brown_Thornton12_2_2010&utm_medium=email

 

The colorful facades are a comfort to last night's (totally random, unassociated with today's edition) conversation that strayed from small farming practices to super-intelligence and that kept me tossing and turning, fretting about the fast-approaching future. There's no sense in losing sleep over it, our increasing inability to know what's next is the nature of this life we're living. Atari serves as a humble, 2-D reminder that there's no reason to lug around 3-D baggage as we hurtle through time and space. Left in Brown's hands, the games are reconciled as a portable part of our modern myths. While in the near-term, and in the far, there's really no telling what's around the corner, in the meantime, it's easy to get lost in smaller details, like just what to gift the guys, geeks and children of the 80s in your life. Perhaps that's one more stress Atari can address?

 

Same guy has a print of Space Invaders theme and a bunch of VCR tapes. Weird.

http://www.20x200.com/artists/hollis-brown-thornton.html

 

I obviously need to become an artist.

 

To me it kinda looks like a bad eBay seller picture and that description is way over he top! Plus, what is up with the filthy Donkey Kong--it's so dark I thought it was a Coleco cart. Still, thinking about it - $20 for a high-quality print is not such a bad investment. Or maybe I will order the largest size ($1000) and a copy of Ian's book.

[SlowCoder]

Same guy has a print of Space Invaders theme and a bunch of VCR tapes. Weird.

 

Funny thing about a true artist is that it won't matter to them what their arts mean to anyone but themselves. That's how you tell the difference between an artist and someone doing it for money.

 

I can't stand "artists" who slap a couple colors on a canvas and call it art. I can just as easily go to WalMart and buy a blank white canvas, nail it to my wall and call it "The space between my ears".