> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > = F.U.C.K. - Fucked Up College Kids - Born Jan. 24th, 1993 - F.U.C.K. = > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > How Do They Do it? [Part II in the series] > "Nerds Are Artists Too" > > "Man, I wish I could do that," was all that was going through my > mind as I listened to my car stereo do an injustice to some vintage Eddie > Van Halen guitar on the radio. "He plays the guitar like it's part of his > body," I thought as my car floated down the road. I began to wonder what > it would be like to be a musician like that. At first, I thought it must > be tough to crank out those notes and near impossible to do the solos from > the cuff, but then I realized something. Not only does it sound natural > when most professionals play music, it looks natural, it is natural! Most > of these guys have been playing their instruments for almost as long as I > have been using a computer. When they sit down to play, they just do it, > their fingers and bodies are on autopilot and they are, at any one moment, > three steps ahead of where they are going and have no reservations or > fears about getting there. > I began to realize that this all sounds awfully familiar until I > began to complain to myself that I had quit playing drums at 13 and guitar > a year later. Feeling empty because I really don't participate in any > traditional artistic expression, I realized where I had felt the same > natural feeling doing something, the computer. When I sit down to a > terminal, I feel at home. The keyboard feels natural to me and my fingers > know their way from the escape key to the numeric keypad like a pianist > knows the keys of a piano. When I sit down to program or to simply peruse > a UNIX system. I know where I am going and when my finger start typing, > they know their way and the path they are going to take to get there. > So how is this art? Well Merriam Webster defines art as art(n): 1 > : "skill acquired by experience, study, or observation" and "the conscious > use of skill and creative imagination.." Under these definitions, being a > computer nerd like myself IS an art. As far as creativity, look at all the > different ways one program can be written, or look at Linux, the > culmination of many different artists on one project (a project still in > development I may add :) ). > So where's the glory? Where are my thin, large busomed, blondes > wearing thongs that eventually end up on stage? Why doesn't anyone ask me > to program in front of hundreds of thousands of screaming fans? Well, for > the most part, we're just the unsung heroes of the next generation. Granted > there are stars like Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs, but they are the Elvis's > and Michael Jackson's of our time. The real stars have yet to shine. > So keep those keyboards clean, practice and learn, soon we will > all get the recognition that we deserve. > > -tersIan > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > = Questions, Comments, Bitches, Ideas, Rants, Death Threats, Submissions = > = Mail: jericho@dimensional.com (Mail is welcomed) = > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > = To receive new issues through mail, mail jericho@dimensional.com with = > = "subscribe fuck". If you do not have FTP access and would like back = > = issues, send a list of any missing issues and they will be mailed. = > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > = AnonFTP FTP.DIMENSIONAL.COM/users/jericho/FUCK = > = FTP.SEKURITY.ORG/pub/zines/fucked.up.college.kids = > = FTP.GIGA.OR.AT/pub/hackers/zines/FUCK = > = FTP.ETEXT.ORG/pub/Zines/FUCK = > = WWW http://www.dimensional.com/~jericho = > = http://www.reps.net/~krypt/fuck.html = > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > = (c) Copyright. All files copyright by the original author. = > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=