Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 04/20/2001 5:52:07 PM, you wrote: <<> "Eternally fiddling around" is what fiddler and photographers do. If you are > at all serious about art and craft, you never stop fiddling (except to take > real photographs once in a while.) I'll bet most practitioners of most arts > spend far more time fiddling than performing. If you are an artist/performer, the "fiddling around" *is* performing your art. The same is not true of most male hobbies involving expensive equipment.>> If the "fiddler" is an artist/performer, then apparently we agree. If a hobbyist, he (a male, of course) would be on his own leisure time, accountable only to himself, "fiddling" or not as he pleases and not a subject for evaluation. <<Besides, "fiddling around" has connotations of doing something without your brain really engaged, or not doing it properly -- just mucking about.>> At a certain level of art/craft, work/play can be play/work. Many artists refer in casual language to activities they take most seriously. And sometimes they just like "mucking about," too. Don't you? Allen Zak