"Film vs. Art" (1966)
I was 15 years-old when I took a 16mm film can, a pair of tin snips, a soldering gun and created it.
I then announced over Thanksgiving dinner that I wanted to be an Artist.
The adults all freaked and froze like a Norman Rockwell holiday table,
but without any of the warm smiles.
Our family had been in the entertainment business since 1898,
and it was fully expected of me to go into the family business.
Being the obedient child I wasn't, I nodded and listened to their arguments closely, "You can't make any money from art! What do you want to be? A bum all your life?!"
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I then turned around and did exactly what I wanted to do. While at the UCLA
School of Film & Television, I also studied Art at UCLA with such "L.A. Raw" illuminaries as Jan Stussy, Les Biller, Charles Garabedian and Elliot Elgart. |