Art is an odd thing. If you make it in your back yard, with a spray can and a bit of old furniture, then put it in your front yard and put up a sign saying, "For Sale", that's showing a bit of brass. If you do that, and people actually stop and buy what you've got on display, then that's business. If you create something nobody wants and die, with your stuff left behind, and someone decides it is collectible or even remarkable, your errs could make a small mint. If you create something people want and enough people want it, you could sell your name and designs to someone who can make a lot of thingies like yours and die comfortable while someone else makes a lot more money than you do without having any ideas or talent other than smelling the opportunity to make a buck.

If you create something that is yours, you better be happy with your creation. If you create something that is yours, it might be years before enough people have seen it, tasted it, or heard it and found something different and new in your work. You might have the words "ahead of his time" engraved on your tombstone fifty years after your death.

People like what they are used to. Even those orthodo iconoclasts and anachronisms who are always trying to stay out of the mainstream still have to head upriver to get their fix. And they are not traveling alone. In order to be truly innovative you have to creep up on people, giving them a bit of what they think they want with just a tiny bit of what you want to teach them to think that they want, until you up the dosage and they eventually, it is to be hoped, will swallow your entire message, vision or sound. By that time, you will have imitators and pretenders who will help further your agenda, because the true conneisseurs will prefer the esoteric while the hoi and polloi will just want to meet the latest trend in an inexpensive manner.

All over the world there are curious people trying new things or badly doing old things, some of whom are conscious of what they are doing and others who think they are doing it right but don't have a clue. All over the world there are incurious people trying to get the curious to stop mucking about and either do it right or stop and do something else. They find it irritating that someone who continue to attempt to succeed at something that they have obviously failed at. The world has enough music, art, and fashion as it is. Learn to do something that has a potential, stop wasting media and time and money on something nobody in their right mind would do. Don't quote the biographies of eventual success stories that everybody laughed at to begin with. Their eventual success was then. This is now. Now is real. Besides, that was just a book you read when you should have been studying to become a plumber or a carpenter. Stop wasting everybody's time and get to work doing what people really want.