"As much as undervaluation can kill, so can a false sense of the value of your work. Jean-Michel was advised to stop giving it away. But if your friends can't have it, why live? Overprotection is deadly; the stuff has to get out there to be seen. Making money is something between artists and their stomachs. To turn one's work into fetish that is almost indistinct from oneself, to overpersonalize and covet one's own work, is professional suicide. Fear of rip-off is paralysis. One is always ripped off. Keeping work a secret is the psychology of the applied artist, not the fine artist who must live in a dialogue. "-someone
link to a rad mike o'meally interview regarding 20 years of photography
http://www.theheavymental.com/articles/mike-omeally/
mike -in the 90’s who were the guys in Australia that were pushing things forward?
On the magazine side, Currie was definitely running things, with Slam. He was somebody who was traveling to Melbourne, traveling to Sydney, traveling to the Gold Coast, traveling to Brisbane, just showing me that you could be more than about just where you’re from. That took a while to sink in, but he really lead by example in that department. And then once I started doing that [traveling] just meeting people from the Gold Coast, like Marty Baptist, Clint Bond, Seb Steele, Dion Kovac, Christian West, Al Boglio, there’s just a couple, from Melbourne Greg Stewart, Ben Harris, Ryan Denereaz, the Pappas Brothers, Jason Ellis, Gary Valentine, a lot of other street skaters, the Mapstones later on, Nick Kilderry. And then in Sydney, just my friends, like Wade, Davo, Steve Tierney, Sid Tapia, Phil Mackie, Mick Yuen, Gordo, I am sure I am forgetting some. The whole Manly crew, the guys from Bondi, The Baulko skaters, Glen Scott, Kerry Fisher. To me it was those guys that were really passionate about skateboarding. They were interesting in skating hard, making videos, being involved with the magazine, promoting a healthy scene like contests, making their own boards, making their own t-shirts, making their own stickers, just doing stuff and to share with other people.
mike -in the 90’s who were the guys in Australia that were pushing things forward?
On the magazine side, Currie was definitely running things, with Slam. He was somebody who was traveling to Melbourne, traveling to Sydney, traveling to the Gold Coast, traveling to Brisbane, just showing me that you could be more than about just where you’re from. That took a while to sink in, but he really lead by example in that department. And then once I started doing that [traveling] just meeting people from the Gold Coast, like Marty Baptist, Clint Bond, Seb Steele, Dion Kovac, Christian West, Al Boglio, there’s just a couple, from Melbourne Greg Stewart, Ben Harris, Ryan Denereaz, the Pappas Brothers, Jason Ellis, Gary Valentine, a lot of other street skaters, the Mapstones later on, Nick Kilderry. And then in Sydney, just my friends, like Wade, Davo, Steve Tierney, Sid Tapia, Phil Mackie, Mick Yuen, Gordo, I am sure I am forgetting some. The whole Manly crew, the guys from Bondi, The Baulko skaters, Glen Scott, Kerry Fisher. To me it was those guys that were really passionate about skateboarding. They were interesting in skating hard, making videos, being involved with the magazine, promoting a healthy scene like contests, making their own boards, making their own t-shirts, making their own stickers, just doing stuff and to share with other people.
all down hill from here ..
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Marty-Baptist/319497611506001#!/pages/Marty-Baptist/319497611506001
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Marty-Baptist/319497611506001#!/pages/Marty-Baptist/319497611506001
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