luka
Well-known member
1.Do You Wear A Beret?
a) Yes b) No
2. Do You Have Your Own Studio?
a) Yes b) No
3. Do You Habitually Greet Even Casual Acquaintances With An 'Air Kiss'?
a) Yes b) No
4. In Short Can People Tell, From Your Clothes, Your Body Language, Your Conversation, Your Brand of Cigarette And Other Signifiers That You Are An 'Artiste'?
a) Yes b) No
5. Are You An Accomplished Networker?
a) Yes b) No
6. Do You Form 'Affinity Groups'? That Is To Say, On Looking Around Your Friendship Group, Do You Discover They All Look Exactly The Same, Share The Same Interests, Ambitions, Ideals And Prejudices?
a) Yes b) No
Is This Because You Experience Difficulty In Forming A Connection With People From Backgrounds Different From Your Own? Does This Create A Feedback Loop Which Effectively Reinforces Your Own Beliefs And Shields You From Interacting With The Full Gamut Of Human Types And Belief Systems? Is This Helpful For A Would-Be-Artiste? Would You Be Better Served By A Broader, More Varied Social Circle?
7. Do You Join Groups, Gangs, Clubs and Movements?
a) Yes b) No
7a. Would They Have You If You Wanted To?
a) Yes b) No
8. Are You Always Looking For Ways To Make 'Your Ideas' Profitable?
a) Yes b) No
Do You Hoard Ideas? Do You Worry About Imitators Diluting Your 'Brand'? Do You Withhold Material Till You Can Find A Buyer For It? Do You Treat Knowledge As Currency And Hoard It? What Are You Scared Of? Do You Think Your Supply Of Knowledge Is Diminished Every Time It Is Shared? Is This Rational?
9. Once You Understood The Ways In Which To Gain Critical Approval Did You Take Great Pains To Do The Opposite?
a) No b) Yes
10. Does Too Much Praise Make You Feel You Must Be Doing Something Wrong?
a) No b) Yes
11. Do You Consider Getting Ahead At The Expense Of Others
a) Life's Most Piquant Pleasure
b) A Hollow Victory
12. Do You Laugh At
a) The Weak, The Unfortunate, The Hapless, The Ugly
b) The Powerful, Bullies, Prigs, Bigots
Who's Side Are You On?
13. Do Authority Figures Feel An Instinctive Sense Of Suspicion, Unease And Antipathy Whenever You Hove Into View?
a) No b) Yes
14.Do You a) Take Yourself And Life Very Seriously? or b) Treat Everything, Work, Art And Life As A Game?
Are You Good At Playing It? What Rules If Any Do You Follow?
15. Are You A Show Off?
a) Yes b) Yes
16. Do You Get Easily Over Excited?
a) No b) Yes
17. Are You a) Perpetually Trying To Demonstrate How Clever You Are Or Do You b) Just Whip It Out When It Is Appropriate?
Conversely Are You Scared Of Intelligent Conversation, Earnestness, Seriousness, Honesty? If So, Broaden Your Range.
18. Are You A Disappointment To Your Parents?
a) No b) Yes
19. Do You Trust Your Instincts
a) No b) Yes
Or Are You Continually Second Guessing Yourself And Adapting Your Work And Behaviour To Fit The Expectations Of An Imagined Audience?
20. Have You Been Accused Of Being 'Weird' or 'Different' Your Whole Life Even At Those Times When You Were Desperately Trying To Pass For Normal?
a) No b) Yes
21. Have You Ever Been Diagnosed As Schizophrenic Or Bi-Polar?
a) No b) Yes
22. Do You,b) With Words And Actions Broaden Peoples Sense Of What Is Possible And Permitted or a) Help To Police An Idea of 'Normality'?
23. Visualise A Conversation As A Movement Of Energy Between People
Are You a) An Impediment To The Free Flow Of That Energy or b) Do You Facilitate The Flow Of That Energy?
What Are The Factors Involved? What Makes A Good Conversationalist? How Is A Connection Formed? What Prevents The Establishment Of A Connection?
24. Do You Find People Repeat The Things You Have Previously Told Them As If They Are Sharing A Personal Epiphany Due To Your Special Secret Technique Of Implanting Words Directly Into Their Unconscious Thereby Bypassing The Censors Of The Conscious Mind.
a) no not really b) yes
25. Are You An Ideologue Of Any Stripe?
a) Yes b) No
26. Do You Attend A Large Number Of Openings And Private Views?
a) Yes b) NO
27. Do You Read Art Magazines?
a) Yes b) No
28. Are You 'Very Passionate About Design'?
a) Yes b) No
29. Do You Live In A Part Of Town Where You Are Afraid Of The Locals?
a) Yes b) No
30. Do You Pay Attention?
a) No b) Yes
Do You, For Example, Have At Least A Rudimentary Knowledge Of The Flora And Fauna Of Your Immediate Environment? The Political And Economic Situation? Cultural And Social Trends? Music, Food, Poetry, History, The Built Environment, The Forms And Patterns Made By Peeling Paint, The Way The Sun Makes The Air Vibrate, The Nuances Of Body Language And Paralinguistic Cues......
31. Do You Have A Highly Developed Sense Of Mischief?
a) No b) Yes
32. Have You Taken The Trouble To Actually Get Good At What You Do
a) No b) Yes
Or Are You Just Assuming Your Natural Undeveloped Gifts Are Enough? Are You Not Aware Of How Many Millions Of 'Clever' People There Are In The World? Don't You Think That's A Bit Presumptuous?
33. Do You Know Anyone That Does What You Do But Better?
a) Yes b) No
34. Have You Been Willing To Make Sacrifices In Order To Stay Faithful To Your Own Hazy, Ill-Defined Ideals?
a) No b) Yes
35. Have You Made Your Choices With Your Eyes Open Fully Aware Of The Possible Consequences Or Do You Refuse To Fully Commit To Anything And Whinge Constantly About The Direction Your Life Is Headed In? In Other Words, Do You Want To Have Your Cake And Eat It To?
a) Yes b) No
Do You Want To Be An Artiste AND A Careerist? Is This Realistic?
36. Do You b) Say What You Think Or a) Do You Modify Your Responses To Match The Imagined Assumptions Of Your Interlocutor?
37. Do You Spend A Lot Of Time 'Thinking'?
a) Yes b) No
38. Do You Pay Your Debts?
a) No b) Yes
39. Do You a) Seek To Create A Mystique Around What You Do Or Do You b) Find Such Playacting Painfully Gauche?
40. Do You Ultimately, Despite Multiple Misgivings, Objections And Fears, Say 'YES' To Life?
a) No b) Yes
Do You Seek To Immerse Yourself In It Or Do You Hide From It? Are You Content To Wallow In Backwaters And Stagnant Pools? Do You Seek To Limit The Flow Of Information? Or Do You Want To Open All Channels?
a) Yes b) No
2. Do You Have Your Own Studio?
a) Yes b) No
3. Do You Habitually Greet Even Casual Acquaintances With An 'Air Kiss'?
a) Yes b) No
4. In Short Can People Tell, From Your Clothes, Your Body Language, Your Conversation, Your Brand of Cigarette And Other Signifiers That You Are An 'Artiste'?
a) Yes b) No
5. Are You An Accomplished Networker?
a) Yes b) No
6. Do You Form 'Affinity Groups'? That Is To Say, On Looking Around Your Friendship Group, Do You Discover They All Look Exactly The Same, Share The Same Interests, Ambitions, Ideals And Prejudices?
a) Yes b) No
Is This Because You Experience Difficulty In Forming A Connection With People From Backgrounds Different From Your Own? Does This Create A Feedback Loop Which Effectively Reinforces Your Own Beliefs And Shields You From Interacting With The Full Gamut Of Human Types And Belief Systems? Is This Helpful For A Would-Be-Artiste? Would You Be Better Served By A Broader, More Varied Social Circle?
7. Do You Join Groups, Gangs, Clubs and Movements?
a) Yes b) No
7a. Would They Have You If You Wanted To?
a) Yes b) No
8. Are You Always Looking For Ways To Make 'Your Ideas' Profitable?
a) Yes b) No
Do You Hoard Ideas? Do You Worry About Imitators Diluting Your 'Brand'? Do You Withhold Material Till You Can Find A Buyer For It? Do You Treat Knowledge As Currency And Hoard It? What Are You Scared Of? Do You Think Your Supply Of Knowledge Is Diminished Every Time It Is Shared? Is This Rational?
9. Once You Understood The Ways In Which To Gain Critical Approval Did You Take Great Pains To Do The Opposite?
a) No b) Yes
10. Does Too Much Praise Make You Feel You Must Be Doing Something Wrong?
a) No b) Yes
11. Do You Consider Getting Ahead At The Expense Of Others
a) Life's Most Piquant Pleasure
b) A Hollow Victory
12. Do You Laugh At
a) The Weak, The Unfortunate, The Hapless, The Ugly
b) The Powerful, Bullies, Prigs, Bigots
Who's Side Are You On?
13. Do Authority Figures Feel An Instinctive Sense Of Suspicion, Unease And Antipathy Whenever You Hove Into View?
a) No b) Yes
14.Do You a) Take Yourself And Life Very Seriously? or b) Treat Everything, Work, Art And Life As A Game?
Are You Good At Playing It? What Rules If Any Do You Follow?
15. Are You A Show Off?
a) Yes b) Yes
16. Do You Get Easily Over Excited?
a) No b) Yes
17. Are You a) Perpetually Trying To Demonstrate How Clever You Are Or Do You b) Just Whip It Out When It Is Appropriate?
Conversely Are You Scared Of Intelligent Conversation, Earnestness, Seriousness, Honesty? If So, Broaden Your Range.
18. Are You A Disappointment To Your Parents?
a) No b) Yes
19. Do You Trust Your Instincts
a) No b) Yes
Or Are You Continually Second Guessing Yourself And Adapting Your Work And Behaviour To Fit The Expectations Of An Imagined Audience?
20. Have You Been Accused Of Being 'Weird' or 'Different' Your Whole Life Even At Those Times When You Were Desperately Trying To Pass For Normal?
a) No b) Yes
21. Have You Ever Been Diagnosed As Schizophrenic Or Bi-Polar?
a) No b) Yes
22. Do You,b) With Words And Actions Broaden Peoples Sense Of What Is Possible And Permitted or a) Help To Police An Idea of 'Normality'?
23. Visualise A Conversation As A Movement Of Energy Between People
Are You a) An Impediment To The Free Flow Of That Energy or b) Do You Facilitate The Flow Of That Energy?
What Are The Factors Involved? What Makes A Good Conversationalist? How Is A Connection Formed? What Prevents The Establishment Of A Connection?
24. Do You Find People Repeat The Things You Have Previously Told Them As If They Are Sharing A Personal Epiphany Due To Your Special Secret Technique Of Implanting Words Directly Into Their Unconscious Thereby Bypassing The Censors Of The Conscious Mind.
a) no not really b) yes
25. Are You An Ideologue Of Any Stripe?
a) Yes b) No
26. Do You Attend A Large Number Of Openings And Private Views?
a) Yes b) NO
27. Do You Read Art Magazines?
a) Yes b) No
28. Are You 'Very Passionate About Design'?
a) Yes b) No
29. Do You Live In A Part Of Town Where You Are Afraid Of The Locals?
a) Yes b) No
30. Do You Pay Attention?
a) No b) Yes
Do You, For Example, Have At Least A Rudimentary Knowledge Of The Flora And Fauna Of Your Immediate Environment? The Political And Economic Situation? Cultural And Social Trends? Music, Food, Poetry, History, The Built Environment, The Forms And Patterns Made By Peeling Paint, The Way The Sun Makes The Air Vibrate, The Nuances Of Body Language And Paralinguistic Cues......
31. Do You Have A Highly Developed Sense Of Mischief?
a) No b) Yes
32. Have You Taken The Trouble To Actually Get Good At What You Do
a) No b) Yes
Or Are You Just Assuming Your Natural Undeveloped Gifts Are Enough? Are You Not Aware Of How Many Millions Of 'Clever' People There Are In The World? Don't You Think That's A Bit Presumptuous?
33. Do You Know Anyone That Does What You Do But Better?
a) Yes b) No
34. Have You Been Willing To Make Sacrifices In Order To Stay Faithful To Your Own Hazy, Ill-Defined Ideals?
a) No b) Yes
35. Have You Made Your Choices With Your Eyes Open Fully Aware Of The Possible Consequences Or Do You Refuse To Fully Commit To Anything And Whinge Constantly About The Direction Your Life Is Headed In? In Other Words, Do You Want To Have Your Cake And Eat It To?
a) Yes b) No
Do You Want To Be An Artiste AND A Careerist? Is This Realistic?
36. Do You b) Say What You Think Or a) Do You Modify Your Responses To Match The Imagined Assumptions Of Your Interlocutor?
37. Do You Spend A Lot Of Time 'Thinking'?
a) Yes b) No
38. Do You Pay Your Debts?
a) No b) Yes
39. Do You a) Seek To Create A Mystique Around What You Do Or Do You b) Find Such Playacting Painfully Gauche?
40. Do You Ultimately, Despite Multiple Misgivings, Objections And Fears, Say 'YES' To Life?
a) No b) Yes
Do You Seek To Immerse Yourself In It Or Do You Hide From It? Are You Content To Wallow In Backwaters And Stagnant Pools? Do You Seek To Limit The Flow Of Information? Or Do You Want To Open All Channels?