why yes, i am a snobbish artist.

so i want three different artists to study for my paper. andy goldsworthy, jackson pollock, and yet to be decided. i was reading about christo and jeanne-claude, this husband and wife artist duo. i went to their website, and was reading some stuff about them. they were the ones that surrounded an island in pink fabric. there is a section of their website called "common errors," and it's probably one of the most arrogant sounding things i've read in a long time. in the process of trying to clarify how they really feel, the end up making the reader so annoyed that they don't even care about the fact that christo and jeanne-claude don't use their last names, and that they always pay their workers. they keep sounding like they're trying to separate themselves from other artists, like the others are inferior compared to the magnificent christo and jeanne-claude. they're also too good to use e-mail, apparently, so i'm not too worried about them somehow finding out that i think they're lame. not that they would even care. they're much too advanced to care what a seventeen year old kid thinks anyways. i will now cut and paste a section of this lovely creation.

The Game of Errors: There are six errors in the following published short sentence:
"Christo wrapped some islands in Florida, off the coast of Miami in Key Biscayne with pink plastic."

1.-2. Christo and Jeanne-Claude never wrapped any Islands. They surrounded the islands. Most journalists do not understand the difference between wrapping and surrounding even though they should know that the United Kingdom is surrounded by water, it is not wrapped in water.

3. There were eleven islands surrounded, but because in two occasions 2 islands were surrounded together, there was a total of nine configurations on a span of seven miles.

4. Not off the coast. Off the coast would be in the Atlantic Ocean, east of Miami Beach.

5. It was in Biscayne Bay in the heart of the city of Miami, between Miami City and Miami Beach. Key Biscayne is miles away from there.

6. Not plastic - FABRIC, woven polypropylene is a man-made fiber, and is woven. Plastic usually refers to a film, not woven. For instance, women who wear nylon stockings are not wearing plastic stockings.

(all italics were done by them)

anyways, the whole thing annoyed me so much that i'm not doing them as my third artist. i'll try to find someone who doesn't think they're above everyone else.

"Christo was born in Bulgaria NOT IN SEVEN OTHER COUNTRIES"

isn't that nice.

Error: "The easy life of an artist"
Not quite so. Christo works an average of 17 hours a day – 7 days a week. Jeanne-Claude is a bit more lazy – only 12 to 13 hours a day. They do not take vacations.