RE: For the artists: RIP

[Ken.Carpenter@dmns.org]

So one article and everyone had decided that Gurche is no more?  By the
way, he has been here at the Denver Museum for over 10 years and has
been constantly business doing contract work. And that may be one of the
problems: scheduling. 

Kenneth Carpenter, Ph.D.
Curator of Lower Vertebrate Paleontology/
Chief Preparator
Department of Earth Sciences
Denver Museum of Nature & Science
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From: Danvarner@aol.com [mailto:Danvarner@aol.com] 
Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2005 11:24 AM
To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Cc: Ken Carpenter
Subject: Re: For the artists: RIP

In a message dated 12/17/2005 9:37:33 AM Eastern  Standard Time, 
Ken.Carpenter@dmns.org writes:
<< Certainly Holtz,  Farlow and myself (among others) were more
accepting of 
JP and the new NGS look.  Might this be an example of "not invented
here" 
syndrome at work? ;-) As for  digital art, I have been doing that for
several 
years (some posted at Mike  Keesey's site and others at my web site
(link below). 
If I can learn to do  digital art, so can others. >>
This Luddite has no  quarrel with digital art and I loved the effects in
JP. 
I've been doing  backflips on DML about John Conway's work. To me, the
problem 
is the obsession  of making the images into photos or frames from a
film. 
It's also a bit  troubling that a pub like Geographic would no longer
have use 
for someone like  Jay Matterness or Gurche anymore unless they were
plugged into 
Photoshop. And  absolutely forget about Doug Henderson.
The effect, to me,  is making everything look the same and becomes trite
and 
boring like a lot of  the films have been recently. You can take my
brushes 
when you can pry them out  of my cold dead fingers. DV