Quote from: ChrisC on April 02, 2012, 11:17:40 PM
Not so sure, delegates still need to be counted. It's still early.
Are you still counting?
At one time in the US, it was a religious, cultural, societal, belief that ripping people off was wrong. Of course it's always been that someone is out there taking advantage of others, but those people, however rich they became, were not viewed as heroes of industry. Now?
All of western civilizations ideals are dying. This story in the OP is just one example that effects the people in this community in an obvious way. I'm not talking about politics, right or left, I'm talking about who we are (were) as a civilization.
Liberty is traded for fear, and never is safety found. Then we sell our children in to serfdom for some of the same ideas we fought wars against.
AND where are all the artists?!? In history artists were a vehicle for Truth, liberating the minds of the masses. Goya, Jacques-Louis David, just to name two who move me. Well? The artists are all busy worrying about meaningless esthetics, and can't be bothered right now, when they do have time, their busy playing with politics, reducing art to party propaganda. Sure is pretty though.
The artists who work in VFX have a natural link to the biggest canvas ever made. If only they would pull together. Then again, why should an FX union be any different than the rest of them?