The Fine Art Blog of Daz and Holly

This post has nothing to do with sex, I’m just enjoying the band CSS today  and interpolated their song title ‘music is my hot hot sex’  to fit my life! CSS stands for Cansei De Ser Sexy which translated means "tired of being sexy" which is is what someone who got famous for being sexy once said .

Regardless of the honesty of that statement, at the end of the day you choose which path you take to get to where you want to be so if you don’t want to be a sex symbol then don’t shake your ass on the stage, at the very least, and this is probably Beyonce’s problem, know what you want first then find a way to do it where the ends don’t have to justify the means.

My goal is to be a great artist, but not to base that judgement on what you say, base it on how impressed I am with how a project turns out. How will I know I’m a great artist? When I’m an old old man, too old to be swayed by material rewards and  too old to give a crap what anyone else thinks. Too old to be anything but honest with what I became after choosing to be an artist at that pivital moment when I could have started any career in college in 1988.

I’m constantly fighting the part of my mind that says ‘just do art you know that people like then sell it so you can do the art you really want to do’, that thought is why I came back to my art zine idea after a long long time. The last time I made art zines was in 1996, right before I became joined at the hip to the internet and during one of the most wretched periods of my life, those zines gave me hope, made me proud.

The first group of people should have received their copy of my 2008 Go B Zine art zine by now and will receive the next one in a few weeks

Since this blog is so low traffic I can send you a copy too ,  send me an email with your snail mail address and I’ll pop one in the mail.  goBzine at gmail.com

I’ve been writing a line or two about my projects on Plurk and Twitter as I follow each path and have received some well meaning hints and advice on how to ‘grow’ the zine, thank you for that! The amount of readers isn’t as important as doing the project, as doing the project makes ME grow. The twenty odd people who are on my zine mailing list so far are incentive for me to push myself to stretch my creativity.

Thanks and hugs  to Pamster in Mississippi who was the first person to say that she received her copy of Go B Zine, she reminded me that I used to say "It’s my fantasy, don’t spoil it" when we were in college because a lot of the zine involves my daydreams.

I don’t expect everyone to jump and down with glee at my zines, art is subjective, but the fact that my stuff is flying off into the world inspires and motivates me. Being an artist is my fantasy but it’s not a game. I talk about being ‘famous’  but that’s just a mental technique to motivate me to stay on this path.

I Artist
 i sometimes wonder
if it is so
that I am an artist 
simply because i say so
was I born with talent
to write or to paint?
a prodigy perhaps?
there’s no doubt that I aint
not a leader or lackey
no big money schemes
but an artist 
resulting from having big dreams
they say visualise
what you want to be
regardless of what people say
and all will come true
quite possibly
maybe
some happy day!!

I started making zines in the late 1970′s, they were sci-fi war and superhero comics drawn with cheap ink pens (biros). It was at that moment in my life, right before puberty, that I really wanted to be a great artist. Money and fame don’t mean anything when they would just distract you from the mission. Being proud of what you’ve made was the goal, getting high from your own potential, tripping yourself out with your own coolness. You don’t have to be an artist to do that but I can see myself maintaining that goal my whole life.

If the internet suddenly petered out I will still be able to get my art out to you via my zines, if my computers break and i can’t afford to fix them, or if i become homeless I will still be able to send my art out!!!

I want to be, the best me I can be

with a pen and paper in front of me.

If all I own is a paper and pen

I’ll still be, your cool art friend

Intent is important, we know this from quantum physics, so knowing what your intent is can be an important thing. Why do you do what you do? What’s the long term plan for what you’re doing?

Above early early 1980′s I think it was ’81 actually, below, 2008 art by Darren Daz Cox

Robot Love Fine art by Darren Daz Cox 99daz.com and daz.me

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