Limiting girls to just dolls creates a warped view of womanhood, and as someone who often willingly chose to run a fake art gallery out of my own bedroom and charge parents and visitors $2 per "art" rather than sit around brushing a doll's hair, I found that as a child—and indeed growing up—I saw a lot of things very differently from the girls I knew who played exclusively with dolls. read more
Al Hansen, the godfather of Fluxus (and the grandfather of Beck Hansen) said 'Art is play taken seriously,' and I agree totally --not that you take play so seriously that you ruin the fun, but that as an adult doing art you engage in play with the same sincerity a kid does. read more
Firstly I spent too much time on the peripherals of guitar, that is buying, selling, ‘researching’ guitar stuff, and not enough music playing. Really that is like running into a vacuum shop, turning a vacuum on, but not cleaning with it. read more