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New Luxury Car or Change the Art World

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TomHendricks474

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Dec 16, 2003, 12:08:51 PM12/16/03

Hey Dallas rich guy, Instead of buying another luxury car
how about using that amount to change the Art/Media
world with a web review site.
It's simple - a single site that reviews all arts for
a processing fee - all music, painting, writing, films,
websites, media outlets, architecture, - anything that
can be sent in on video, audio, or printed.

If there is a single thing an artist needs its a review.
Ask any artist. Here's something I wrote about recently
in my Dallas zine Musea
It's Friday night and the more I think about the dominance
of corporate art/media the more convinced I am that a review site
would be the best way to start a real alternative to their control.

I just don't see how it wouldn't work - and I ask those, not those
that are against everything, but those who are grounded, to tell
me what I'm missing.

I want to start a no ad, no sponsor review site. It would review
everything and guarantee a review to any type of creative endeaver.
It would be paid for by a processing fee from every artist reviewed.
(About the price of postage)

One newsgroup poster said what artists need are major reviews - as
if any of us outside these conglomerates could get any review at all.
I told him to ask any artist he knew, if he was getting too many reviews.
And when the artist stopped laughing, to listen to him about how few
real places there are to POSSIBLY get a review for maybe 1% of the
artists seeking it. And no where to get a guaranteed review.

To me it seems so obvious. Once reviews start happening, you begin
to find stars - real talents. Then you take the best of these and
give them more opportunity:
Best music - do CD' anthology's, start a radio station
Best writing - do zines, start a publishing company
Best film/acting/theater - do videos of plays or films - later a film
company, or a theater company.
Best art - a traveling exhibit
Best media - a newspaper.
And on and on and on and on.

The time will never be more ripe than now. There will never again (hopefully)
be decades worth of undiscovered talent like today. It COULD be a golden
age in just about every aspect of art. Corp. art has turned its back so
long that there is a huge crowd of gifted waiting behind that closed door.
I just don't see how this wouldn't change every aspect of arts/media.