Comments on Fluffytek Art Blog: The Five Percent

The 95% sheep factor is difficult to escape since ...

2008-03-29T14:31:00.000Z

The 95% sheep factor is difficult to escape since those might who wish to produce images that run with the 5%-ers often still need to satisfy clients who are, themselves,amongst 95% herd... i mean flock.

Ive always said..in a field with 100 sheep...99 of...

2008-03-29T12:47:00.000Z

Ive always said..in a field with 100 sheep...99 of them being white, and one of them being black..which one do you notice?

bt

Great. Now I'm a raving nutter with floppy boobs. ...

2008-03-28T19:58:00.000Z

Great. Now I'm a raving nutter with floppy boobs. All work and no play makes Lin a dull girl, all work and....

Personally I reckon the elephant is the one who has the most fun.

Incidentally, Dr Lightness, you ARE one of the 5 percent. Writers can be innovators too.

To paraphrase Jack Nickleson.Sheees Baaaack.Rich t...

2008-03-28T17:57:00.000Z

To paraphrase Jack Nickleson.
Sheees Baaaack.

Rich tried. He really did. I think he had 2 maybe 3 good, no damn good posts he was going to do. But then..kids-laundry-ironing-food-dishes- job-editing photos-weather-planet alignment. I feel he was real close. I think if you would have stayed maybe one more day...he would have had it all together with a bow on it for you.

Sure...I just spend 350 bucks on a GPS so I can find my way around in the box. Now you want me to just go wandering off outside the box. All so I can be a 5 percenter and just when I was getting my shit together to be a 1 percenter too. Damn. Oh well my bag had a hole in it anyway.

You've hit the old saying "if your not the lead dog, your view never changes" right on the head.

We just get so comfortable looking at that ass in front of us. We don't like the change, even if what or how we do things is boring, it's comfortable, we know what to expect. We don't like the adrenalin rush of looking out over the edge with no safety belt. Too many what if's play in our heads.

You can look at the dogs harness as a metaphor for the constraints society and our families put on us to subvert change. People would like to be able to post different things on their blog. People would like to go in a different direction in their photography. People would like like to explore but those damn straps hold pretty tight when the what if's and fear of the consequences creep into the equation.

"...but whoever said making a decent photograph was easy?"

de•cent /ˈdisənt/ Pronunciation
–adjective
1.conforming to the recognized standard of propriety, good taste, modesty, etc., as in behavior or speech.
2.respectable; worthy: a decent family.
3.adequate; fair; passable: a decent wage.

I don't think you are asking us to make a decent photograph...But maybe a...defiant or contumacious one.

Ok...Ok. I'll save you the trouble of looking it up.
con•tu•ma•cious Pronunciation[kon-too-mey-shuhs, -tyoo-]
–adjective
stubbornly perverse or rebellious; willfully and obstinately disobedient.

Instead of the "P" word just sub "imitation" or "imitates" with quotes. That way most of the children that read blogs will not know the true meaning, but the adults will.

I have been known to notice an elephant in the room. But up until the last time, when I asked "WTF is that elephant doing here? The response was "we couldn't see it because of the ass in front of us.

Later Gator

D.L. Wood

Lin, what about those of us who QUESTION outside t...

2008-03-28T15:23:00.000Z

Lin, what about those of us who QUESTION outside the box? Who say what no one else will say? Who see an elephant in the room and say, "Omg, there's an elephant in the room! Let's talk about it!" while most others would prefer not to notice.

I know that's not the same thing as being a leader in innovation. But there would be no innovation without recognizing the elephant in the room.