I bought myself a didgeridoo and I'm learning how to play it. Lemme tell ya, circular breathing is a bitch to learn. Right now, I can drone into the thing, but I'm still trying to build lip strength; it's going to be awesome once I can start barking and howling and making all kinds of crazy weird noises into that thing.

Super Mario Galaxy is cool, but lately, I've noticed that I'm slowing down on the games and speeding up on the art. Three pictures across three days. Could it be that my block is finally crumbling?

 ninjapuppy had recently asked about what it takes to get famous. I know for a very, very, VERY long time, I was chasing the fame aspect of art.

Martin Luther King, Jr. once said something along the lines of "Every man has the potential to be great, but not everyone will be famous." I think, at least to the ego-driven artist (raises hand) those words can seem very daunting at first. But on closer inspection, there's some real relief in hearing them.

Every man has the potential to be great. Wow. That's powerful stuff!
Not everyone will be famous. Wait... but what about my +watches and +faves?!

But honestly, is that what it's really all about? Sitting on a pier with  lastbladedragon and :spiritcreations: in the middle of a small Polk county town at 10 at night, surrounded by good company and the vastness of the universe, fishing, smoking cigarettes, and just communing with good friends, I really had to ask again.

Is it really the fame that makes us great? Or do we just happen to have the fame come along once we make ourselves great?

This is truly how I feel about art and myself as an artist. Art is a caravan. It's always moving forward, and if you're doing the work, you're part of the caravan. You're going to have your trapeze artists, your clowns, your jugglers and your lion-tamers, your ringleaders and dancers, the motorcycle-cage guy and even the carnies.

I'm sure some would prefer to be a ringleader over a carnie, and that's okay. But what good is it for a carnie to stop being a part of the caravan if he's not immediately a ringleader?

While I was there, I did that picture of the Zen Goat. Just because. Call it a bet with God, or whoever. I found that while I was drawing, I felt better and I couldn't complain because I was a part of the caravan.

I may not "be as good as" a lot of the artists on here. That's fine, I can always improve with practice, but I don't think that's really what is really important now. To be quite honest, on the scale of carnie to ringleader, I couldn't care less to gauge where I am. What *is* important to me, however, is that I am part of the caravan.

Now back to barking madly like a dingo through this four feet piece of bamboo. Cheers!