THE FUTURE OF ARTSUCKS.COM
5-8-06 POST RATED: The Future, Artsucks.com, Coming Years, Predictions
What does the future hold for COJO and Artsucks.com? I think the coming years will just be more and more crazy as the sketch experiment wraps up and the paintings take shape. I'm doing a lot more celebrity commissioned portraits and fine art work (over commercial), and making a lot more high profile radio appearances, as well as more high profile interviews. I'll be sure to detail more parties, openings, and events for you. I'll continue to usher you right up close, past the phoniness and the hoopla, pushing your unblinking eye right smack up against the transparent side of the industry's highly polished one-way mirror.
It's amazing the impact art can have on someone's life, and if I can make an impact in people's lives with this blog experiment and the sketch-a-day experiment then we really have something. With your support who knows what kinda impact I will be making 10 or 20 years from now. The future is wide open. Could you be reading the blog of the next Basquiat? The next Damien Hirst? The next Warhol?
I get a lot of e-mail from people who after visiting Artsucks.com, say that I gave them a renwed inspiration towards art, or just getting out there and being creative. I motivate them to do something. I think a lot of that has to do with my motivation. It's hard to find someone more driven and artistically motivated than I am, and it probably shows in my writing. Motivation is contagious.
I got an e-mail a few weeks ago that really spoke to me:
"Your art is inspiring. I'm thinking of taking up art and going to the same college you did isn't that weird!
Best wishes to you!"
Victoria- KS
E-mails like these let me know that I'm not just entertaining someone on their lunch break, or adding a little artwork to someone's decor, but a lot of people are actually getting inspired by my work and fucked-up adventures. Inspiration and creativity are what art is really all about. Without those things, you just have skill, which to me is more a craft or a learned trade than an art. Any moron can be technically taught to draw given enough time and highly paid qualified professional teachers. But inspiration is priceless.
Ok, enough gushy shit. I'm gonna try to put together a year-in-review post in the next few weeks with the most popular updates of the year. I'll also try to upload a ton of photos I've just had sitting around and hadn't had time to format. I've got a lot of updates I want to write and have just been sitting on for lack of time that I will try to get around to in the next few weeks as well. It's only been a year; I'm still working out the kinks!
Just another day in the life of an Art Juggernaut.
-Cojo
