| Original Message: Chihuly, Jamey,Kirk, Juergen, Bob et al. |
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Thanks for the link to Billy Morris’ work Juel, and your observations on Dale’s work. He doesn’t make any of that stuff, only encourages the many artists working for him to make the objects. Dale is a showman and a promoter, but worst of all to me as an artist is that, he totally subsumes the identity of his artist employees with his own ego. Billy Morris worked for Dale, Lino worked for Dale. When I was a production glass blower working for Mike Nourot, Micheal always included the individual artist initials in the studio signature on the piece. But I didn’t make my post to start a long discussion on the merits of Chihuly’s work or ethics or glass art in general. I too bypassed looking at most of the pictures as I’ve seen many Chihuly installations up close over the years and would also rather spend a minute with a Billy Morris piece than an hour with a room sized Chihuly installation. That aside, I yet stand by my position as stated in the title of my first post in this thread. What’s Chihuly got to do with beads? Jamey is an artist, an historian, an archivist, a researcher and a professional, and his field of expertise is beads, amulets etc. If we all start posting long threads of photos of our non bead related vacations and day trips, It won’t take long before this will become the travelog forum and one will have to sift through pages of threads to find relevant bead related material. Yes, I’m exaggerating here, but not by a lot. It all starts somewhere. Political remarks have been creeping into posts. Will religion be next? People here on this forum look for bead related material and look up to Jamey for bead information, not travelogues. He could have posted a link to some really good Chihuly photos instead of making a long thread here with post after post after post of poorly shot, out of focus low light images. If one looks at the reads on the posts one will see that the average reader here grew weary pretty quickly of the images. Jamey, you must have thousands of good pictures of exciting beads to show here. Logan, I didn’t make my remarks to insult or scorn, but in the context of the many great images posted on this forum, most all on topic or closely related, I found Jamey’s Chihuly posts to be not just off topic but an insult to the quality of the fine images posted here by Thomas, Thomas, Steve, Nisheda and so many others. And yes, I’d rather read those long posts from Kirk, Juergen, Jamey and others about beads than see a long one person generated thread with fourteen posts about a totally non bead related subject. At least here that is. The web is full of places to go to see and read on any subject imagineable. I just did a simple search for Dale Chihuly and pulled up two hundred seventeen thousand hits. Do we need him here? Is his work bead related? Even remotely? Are we here because we are looking to read about beads? Heck many beads are made of stone. Would a travelogue of pictures of the stone quarries of Carrara be appropriate here? For Bob, your molds might be pretty keen as beads if you drilled 'em.....LOL. Nice objects- and nice photos.
Here's to whirled peas for sure.
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