Scott writes:

A common dilemma facing all artists is how much effort do you put in regarding the details at the expense of the underlying communication of the work? Or, in other words, one can get so caught up in perfecting every detail that one loses sight of the original intention and energy of the
work.

Continue reading 3 Years Ago On The Elsa Blog: “For Whom Should I Display My Soul?” Scott Leather Writes: On The “IT” in “ART”

I know a gal, she owns an upscale bed and breakfast type place with an art gallery attached. She is exudes the Venusian qualities and is having trouble leaving comments on my blog. Apparently they are going into the black hole that may or may not be the spam filter but in whatever case, she’s having Neptune problems figuring it all out and believe me, I meant well when I decided to help her out.

Continue reading Pluto In Aspect To Venus And Mars In Taurus - “Sorry For Drowning You In Crap, Art Gallery Lady!!”

With the stellium in Pisces, I thought this deserved a 2nd run. From 2007…

I had a question yesterday I couldn’t use for the blog because rather than “advice” the gal wanted a specific opinion. She explained her situation and then asked:

“Should I pine or move on?”

Although her question didn’t fit the format of the blog, I did email her back my opinion which is this: I don’t believe in pining! If I want more, I go back and get it and if I’ve had enough I move on. I would equate pining with purgatory. But then I got to thinking about it.
Continue reading Neptune / Pisces Pining Over a Lost Lover - Does It Fuel Art? POLL

As Rights Clash on YouTube, Some Music Vanishes

“…A spokesman for Warner Music said that YouTube’s system for identifying copyrighted material does not distinguish between professionally made music videos and amateur material that may include copyrighted works.

“We and our artists share the user community’s frustration when content is unavailable. YouTube generates revenues from content posted by fans, which typically requires licenses from rights holders. Under the current process, we make YouTube aware of WMG content. Their content ID tool then takes down all unlicensed tracks, regardless of how they are used,” said Will Tanous, a spokesman for Warner Music…”

Continue reading YouTube vs Warner Music: Artists And Other Creative People - Does Giving Away Your Work Spur Sales?

I wrote about the soldier’s “notions” (“I will turn into a girl…”) and it occurred to me people like us who really involve ourselves in living do tend to have these experiences. For example he plays around in the psychic world with that antenna of his and there is no telling where he goes or where he may be taken. Consequently he may come back in a “mood”. He may be happy or excited or alternately he may be agitated or any other emotion you can think of. This is because he is experiencing life.
Continue reading Notions And The People Who Are Prone To Having Them: Is This What Art Is?

On the blog controversy, there is another analogy that comes to mind. I have been a Bob Dylan fan since I was 11 years old and there was a point in the late 70’s he started writing God music. Now I like God music and I liked Dylan’s God music but people went absolutely nuts. They had a way they liked to see Dylan and they did not appreciate his moving outside their paradigm one damned bit.

Dylan has a stellium in (mutable) Gemini and he is going to morph whether people like or not but maybe you can see the Saturn / Uranus energy here. Dylan was experimenting (Uranus) and the people rejected him (Saturn) in an attempt to control him (Saturn) and make him stop (Saturn) progressing (Uranus).

What’s curious is these same people if you asked them, would probably have told you they were progressive. Er… they liked his protest songs, see?

Ha ha ha.

“Yeah, HQ said very early on that he thought I’d be happy with you. We had quite a few  problems at the time so it was enormously supportive to have a vote of confidence. It was  quite a statement at the time, I think you will be happy with him.”

“He said that?”

“Yeah. He figured you liked to talk and tell stories and I can’t remember things so you could remind me and then I’d forget again and you could remind me and we’d both be happy like this,” I said, smiling.

“Are you happy?”

“Hell yes.”

“Me too. Why can’t you remember, P?”

Continue reading Voice Of Venus Neptune - You Mean There Were Details?

Tips from the goat..

Turns out there is a demand for t-shirts with this slogan.  Anyone out there with some skills feel like designing a logo? If so I will put it up on cafepress so y’all can get one.

I don’t know how cafepress works exactly but will make everything as cheap as possible because the goal is not to profit but to be amused.

I am open to whatever but imagine a clean design with an elsaelsa.com on it somewhere would be most appealing.  In fact, just text works for me but even that is beyond what I can do so if someone wants to help out, that would be great.

I have become a fan of cafepress since finding this mug for the soldier there.  I got it for him for Father’s day and the grin that spread across his face was priceless.  He wanted a t-shirt so I got him that as well and point is, having this super unique specialized stuff is really worthwhile so let’s do it, ‘kay?

If we can get one (or more) good designs we can throw up other choice comments in the same format when they come up and there is demand and I dunno. What the hell - I just think we should do it.