Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> From: Mark Rabiner [mailto:mrabiner@concentric.net] > > Paul Chefurka wrote: > > > > > From: Mark Rabiner [mailto:mrabiner@concentric.net] > > > > > If you're not good enough for Galleries, stick your stuff up > > > in a coffee shop, > > > more people will see it and spend more time with it anyway. > > > > Like the actor in "Pecker" did. And he got discovered by > the NY Ahhht > > Scene. Much to everyone's dismay. I hope never to be > discovered. Or found > > out. > > > > Paul Chefurka > > It's good to see your stuff through others eyes though. Even > though you are > working mainly for you. > It helps to reevaluate ones priorities with that perspective. > If a tree falls in the forest.... > Mark Rabiner Oh, I was way more than half kidding. I know what it's like to have your work laid out before the public (some saying about pearls and swine springs to mind...) That's why I still enter competitions, even when the judges are knuckle-dragging philistines whose IQs are exceeded only by their shoe sizes. Who among us can resist that little shiver that runs down the spine when someone whose work you really admire ambles over and says "Nice stuff!"? Not this little black duck :-) Paul Chefurka