"I get plenty of ideas...I JUST CAN'T SEEM TO GET THEM ON PAPER."

When I started my career in publishing I worked for a large publisher in a small office. It was a regional office where we cranked out around 50-60 books a year with a small staff. It was a two person art department and one of my jobs was maintaining and using the stat camera.

This image is from a book I worked on. I have no idea what the book was called or what it was about. I liked the image and, since I had access to the stat camera, I made myself a large print which I had hanging on my wall for several decades. I thought it time to dust it off and put it online hoping someone someday will be able to provide me with some information about it. I have no idea who did the drawing or why, but I understand the sentiment.


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DO WHAT YOU LIKE and the money will follow

Bad times. Genuinely bad times for so many people. And what of the future? What of education? The arts are being cut from schools with the sharpest of blades. "No child left behind" means that indeed all children will be left behind. The system is set-up to squash creativity, real creativity that allows the soul to sing. We are creating test takers. We instead are left with the creativity of those who figure out how to gauge the system. Those are the creative types who are respected now. Even many of the successful artists are little more than frauds, working the gallery system to get ahead, make money, become famous. Look at Wall Street and their creativity. Maybe if those people had been taught to think and value something other than money we wouldn't be in this mess. Too many MBA's were handed out and not enough BFA's.

Too many kids will either quit school because it doesn't speak to them or come out of the 12 year grind rudderless except for the thought they must succeed. They must make money. What a sad and empty future they see extending before them.

Perhaps make copies of the card below and send it to all who work at Goldman Sachs, possibly the most heinous group of greed creators I ever recall. They make Madoff look like a chump for getting caught.

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