Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Tdarcos - I will Paypal you $10 for the ingredients for the crepes video. I would Paypal you now, but I want confirmation that a crepe video is coming if I help pay for the ingredients/development.
If you guys are serious, I'll do it, and you can pay me after I've made the video so you don't have to trust me. As I said, I'm greedy. But if you stiff me, consider it the last time I'll ever do anything for you guys again.
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:What do I get out of it? I get to say I am a patron of the arts. Faggy shit, I know, but work with me here.
Jonsey, how do you think all art got done prior to the development of copyright (late in the 18th century) and royalties to authors (not very effective until early in the 20th)? With the exception of very good playwrights like Will Shakespeare, who could get investors to go in on doing a play,
all art was patron sponsored; there were no government grants, artists did work either on a per-job basis (one guy wants a painting, another wants a bust, and the
First Church of You Are Going to Hell in a Handbasket if You're Not a Member will pay nicely for a stained glass window rendering of a scene from the medieval equivalent of
Dante's Inferno), or if they were very lucky, on salary for a patron.
DaVinci didn't do his art work because he was inspired by the love of the craft, he was a full-time employee (or perhaps contractor was a better term) of one of the Medici, who hired him to figure out new and more efficient ways of killing his enemies; this gave him the time and resources to do his art.
And I'll bet you thought the military-industrial complex was just something Eisenhower warned about back in the 1950s.