Tilted Cat Head
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Originally Posted by roachboy
actually, there is no argument.
the underlying point i am making really is that if you want to keep going you have to give yourself the space to fail, to make useless things, to head down wrong paths--because you learn things from the doing. you cannot give away the legitimacy of what you are up to : you cannot hand the ability to define what you're doing to folk who interact with the outputs--because making stuff is not about the outputs. the outputs are condensed expression of process. that's it, all there is to it.
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but that's what inventors and programmers do. are they artists? is what they create art?
"I have not failed 1,000 times. I have successfully discovered 1,000 ways to NOT make a light bulb." - Thomas Edison
so is a light bulb art?
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