Another way to be a patron of the arts
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pseydtonneSometimes you get a silly idea and you decide it's not stupid enough to ignore it.
Randy Milholland, the artist behind Something Positive, has been trying to raise enough money to quit his day job. He set a goal of $22 grand and has passed the halfway mark in only a couple weeks. Even hookers are jealous.
I had given some money to Randy before when I met him at I-Con on Long Island. In return, I got a couple original drawings (one from a favorite episode). I was thinking about giving him money again but I didn't want to use Paypal (I don't like it). So I got the idea to write a check and bring it to his apartment a few towns away. I told my scheme to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hakamadare, the man that got me interested in S*P, and asked if he wanted to go along for the ride. Indeed he did.
We stopped at the packie on the way. I also wanted to give randy beer because he's got work ahead of him and because I'd promised him booze last time I'd seen him. I wanted to bring Yuengling, but you can't get that in Boston. So I grabbed a six of Fuller ESB and a six of Magic Hat #9 (haka's idea). We felt like giggling schoolgirls as haka scraped off the price tags and I wrote into my checkbook.
We guessed the apartment from the staircase outside it, which had been used in a couple episodes. Haka knocked, bag of beer in his other hand. I came up behind him. As soon as Randy saw me in the doorway he yelled "I remember you! C'mon in! Have a seat."
We wound up talking for half an hour. The stories he has about former employers belong in books. He's an intense storyteller and I hope this project works. It'll prove that the Internet can create new forms of expression not possible before. Haka was getting tired, so we booked. I wanted to talk a lot longer because Randy had so much rolling in his head.
I've done my part to support the arts. Now I need to feed the other end of the arts and create some stuff.
-a drive to feed a mind
Randy Milholland, the artist behind Something Positive, has been trying to raise enough money to quit his day job. He set a goal of $22 grand and has passed the halfway mark in only a couple weeks. Even hookers are jealous.
I had given some money to Randy before when I met him at I-Con on Long Island. In return, I got a couple original drawings (one from a favorite episode). I was thinking about giving him money again but I didn't want to use Paypal (I don't like it). So I got the idea to write a check and bring it to his apartment a few towns away. I told my scheme to
hakamadare, the man that got me interested in S*P, and asked if he wanted to go along for the ride. Indeed he did.We stopped at the packie on the way. I also wanted to give randy beer because he's got work ahead of him and because I'd promised him booze last time I'd seen him. I wanted to bring Yuengling, but you can't get that in Boston. So I grabbed a six of Fuller ESB and a six of Magic Hat #9 (haka's idea). We felt like giggling schoolgirls as haka scraped off the price tags and I wrote into my checkbook.
We guessed the apartment from the staircase outside it, which had been used in a couple episodes. Haka knocked, bag of beer in his other hand. I came up behind him. As soon as Randy saw me in the doorway he yelled "I remember you! C'mon in! Have a seat."
We wound up talking for half an hour. The stories he has about former employers belong in books. He's an intense storyteller and I hope this project works. It'll prove that the Internet can create new forms of expression not possible before. Haka was getting tired, so we booked. I wanted to talk a lot longer because Randy had so much rolling in his head.
I've done my part to support the arts. Now I need to feed the other end of the arts and create some stuff.
-a drive to feed a mind
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Date: 2004-05-23 05:34 am (UTC)Though I fail to see how $22K is enough to enable someone to quit a day job. With enough austerity, one might be able to slowly chew through that sum in a year. But by the end of that year, either the art is financially self-sustaining, or you have another day job lined up, or you get very familiar with the knock-knock-knock of wolf paws on the door.
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Date: 2004-05-27 09:26 am (UTC)Oh and I am hoping to visit you guys at some point.. money is tight. bah.
Take care ~Lacy