The conversation thing

This is an interesting festival, too bad I’ve just found about it today, as the deadline is only a few days away - August 25th. This thursday…. maybe short enough, but I also have to be fast enough to submit a significant work.

That’s one of the last year’s entries. I’d like to see the final exhibits, as the concept is quite challenging.

“THIS YEAR’S THEME: SHORT & FAST. Short and fast digital animations / films / works. We are looking for work that is small in file size and quick in linear time. The exhibits will be held at various airfields in the northern Orkney Isles, home of the “The Worlds Shortest Scheduled Flight”. (more…)

I’ve just read on CNN.com that Google has acquired a stake in Chinese community Web site Tianya.cn.

What seems interesting is that percentages are subject of speculations .. from under 10 to as high as 60.

Cnn also reads that “Google is rushing to close the gap with rival Baidu.com Inc, which dominated the search market in China in the second quarter with a 58.1 percent share, according to research firm Analysys International. Baidu recently won approval to do its own reporting rather than simply show news search results, while Google is promoting a Chinese-language map search service and online word processing programs. Both are trying to build online library services.” (more…)

Last night I had to do some order in my lost lost lost pile of art sketches and courses from university. The “unimportant ones” as the important ones are very well classified :).

Point is, I’ve come to a serious dillema. What does someone do with sketches and paper half drawn or disaster works , most of them done in highschool and university? I mean, I know they are just sketches or derailed works, but, some of them can be rescued, plus it’s my own mind and hand there.

On one hand it’s a lot of paper that takes A LOT of space and who knows who will ever take them into consideration (let’s hope I’ll turn out to be the new millenium genius and those horrible sketches will be regarded as pure gold) on the other hand, how can someone throw away these?

My question to you is: Is an art sketch equal to a simple paper where you make some notes and when you do the final work, they are to be thrown away?

What do you do with works like these?

Later edit: I’d have to admit they look sooo much better on screen than in real life…. Now that might mean that either I underestimate them a little, or photography compliments art …. hmm, still have my dillema …