Stefan Pernar

I was buying my new system for two reasons. One - I was tired of the constant jet plane level noise of my old system all the time. Two - I wanted to experience Direct X 10 quality graphics. So last weekend saw the release of Crysis - arguably the largest jump in graphics quality and environmental interaction since the original Doom. At least that was what they made me believe.

You know what they say, right: You can only foul me two or three dozen times before I start getting suspicious. I downloaded it and sure - the graphics where ok, but not worth putting up with Vista madness. So I took the plunch and installed the cheeky monkey. No dual boot, nothing - from now on it will be Ubuntu all the way.

So beside my system being quieter than my purring cats I now have Mac level eye candy and a rock solid OS. Oh - did I mention that my mic does not work yet? I guess you can’t have everything. But I am not looking back…

…especially about the future. Yes they are. So back before 9/11 I predicted that the US government will be sued over greenhouse gas emissions. And now guess what? Not only are they being sued for exactly that - no sir-e - in addition a woman and not one but two ethnic minority candidates are running for president in the 2008 elections.

Sure - I was off with the dates a bit, but what are a few years among friends - right? Wake me when Cuba is admitted to the union.

Why I posted that as Axemaster Setfeb you ask? Now that’s a story for another day….

Honestly? No - I can not paint like Picasso. But ask any artists with some basic skills and they will paint for you in his style. Don’t expect to get rich quick doing so however. The reason why Picasso’s paintings command such a high price is not because they have been painted in this particular, highly recognizable style, but because his paintings where the first that were.

Picasso’s name thus is entangled with his genius of creating a new, unique and appealing style, the actual style itself is of little value as it is easily repeatable. Analogously this can be applied to other great artists such as Monet, van Gogh or Zhang Xiao Gang. If you want to be a

successful artist you can’t just suspend a shark in formaldehyde - not because it would not sell, but because it already did.

One would best have to be appealing, simple and immediately understandable. Like selling a pixel of ad space for a dollar. Most importantly however, one would have to be the first.

Well - probably not. But here I go anywhere. Not sure what to expect from this blog? Welcome to the club - ha!