You guys are really hung up on technique and technical proficiency; like the software isn't doing most of that for you (art for people who can't draw, right?). It seems kind of arrogant to me--all you have to do is figure out the software and you're suddenly making "art." That's not art--it's barely even craft. Isn't there a conceptual aspect here that's being ignored? Is art just decoration? Something that looks nice hanging over the sofa? I have a story I like to tell in moments like these (which we seem to have here every few months): once I was at the Walker museum in Minneapolis, looking at a bunch of big, gorgeous Rothkos--door-sized canvases with rich bands of color. This guy walks up, pushing a kid in a stroller. "Sheesh," he says. "You or I coulda done that." "Maybe," I said. But what I WISH I'd said was, "maybe, DUMBASS, but it didn't occur to us, and wouldn't occur to us in a million years, to make images like these, to think about space and color and form in this way, you ignorant fuck, and that's why this guy's work is hanging in this museum and you're just some pinhead pushing a stroller."