i was thinking about arts subisidies and incentives. arts subsidies end up producing a bunch of people that are good at getting grants, not producing art that anybody actually wants.

two of my female friends slog their asses off in waitering and cafe jobs, study at university, and also find time to put together art projects (one films, the other photography) and i really admire them. so all those wetbags that whinge about arts funding can go to hell. if you’re not passionate enough to squeeze your art around enterprises like feeding yourself, you should just retire from being an artist. no-one wanted your crap anyway.

students and artists that whinge about how hard it is to be a starving student or artist are right, it is hard, for them. but whats hard is relative to how tough you are, and years of coddling by rich parents and the government makes people soft. so my advice is, go out and get a job, you bums!

“We will aim to double cultural output by 2020.” — Australian 2020 summit report. *Shudder* The idea of all these people gathering together to decide how to spend more of your money, especially on the arts makes me slightly ill. That statement sounds like Stalinist propaganda - the government arts program, seemingly innocuous, very insidious.