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To: Crocodile who wrote (43645)	12/18/1999 12:33:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 71178

Of course you're making sense. I don't really have an opinion about going to college to learn computer graphics, as it's out of my area of interest. I used to read the occasional computer mag, and it seems to me that the graphics programs are fairly new. I remember when the first really big one for the PC came out, I think it was called Video Toaster? So you're probably right on the crest of the learning curve, although maybe not on the bleeding edge. I don't know how old you are, I think probably you're funky enough and cool enough to fit in with the professors and graduate students, who are the most fun, anyway, in my opinion. But that's because what I like to do is talk, and kids aren't all that interesting to talk to, usually. They have good ideas, but not in layers, like the DARians have. The best talk is with people who have multiple layers that are available simultaneously, I think. It may be completely different in visual art, but the reason I don't think so, is because of the artists I've known. My mother got a MFA from LSU, I don't consider her an artist, although she is talented, because she doesn't make anything. There's always a reason why not, no studio, not the right kind of light, etc., etc. But when I went to the studios at LSU, and I did take a few classes myself, I'd meet people who really were artists, and they were always working. And I worked in printing for years, so I met a lot of graphic artists, and through them painters, photographers, and so forth, again, they were always working. I have known a few semi-famous people, probably the most famous was Clarence John Laughlin, an excellent photographer, again, always working. On the other hand, I knew Hazel Guggenheim, total poseur, but lots of money, so people pretended she was an artist. But I freely admit I don't know what it's like inside to be an artist. I just find it interesting to observe ya'll.