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Random Thoughts or Whatever

Random thought: Why do some people have to die to become famous?

Thinking more of the ones in the arts, music/painting, et al.


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I suppose because some folks think fame is to die for, too many internet Darwin award candidates to cite specific examples.
Daredevil exhibitionists, apart from underappreciated underrated struggling artists.
Seems to me, many artists are not really appreciated or understood in their own time. Many years later, people begin to see what they did and like it. Many of them seem to be ahead of their time.
 
Seems to me, many artists are not really appreciated or understood in their own time. Many years later, people begin to see what they did and like it. Many of them seem to be ahead of their time.
Word! ...most of the really great artists were/are disruptors and iconoclasts (of current style, attitude, convention, order etc.)...people talk a good game vis a vis embracing change...but most would rather not..."never the new" the cry of the comfortable and the privileged everywhere and anywhere...throughout history...
 
Word! ...most of the really great artists were/are disruptors and iconoclasts (of current style, attitude, convention, order etc.)...people talk a good game vis a vis embracing change...but most would rather not..."never the new" the cry of the comfortable and the privileged everywhere and anywhere...throughout history...
Art is a vision shared, not necessarily communicated in all cases.
 
Interesting "takes": rebel rousers/out of step in time/not understood/incapability to be understood/too radical/want attention/underrated/overrated/ahead of their time, etc.

Society does at times, push back if it doesn't feel comfortable with the known and accepted.

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Right around noon today, I was walking past a condo complex and saw 3 boys probably ranging around 5 to 10 years old riding bicycles! Not indoors playing video games? Awesome!

Further along comes the mall. Needed more coffee and Starbucks was there in Barnes and Noble. Walking through the store, I saw people buying actual board games! 2 refreshing sights in one day?

There is hope for humanity after all!
 
In the food court (or "dining pavilion" as they now call it), in the Cape Cod mall, are 5 pairs of flatscreens hanging. Each pair of screens has a home theater center channel speaker above it. Never once have I seen these screens in use. I don't know why there would be 2 side by side. Throughout the food court, there are little bitty speakers positioned randomly. Does anyone have any idea what this is all about?
 
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