  so today i had a fight with a kid in the hallway about what it was to be a film maker and an artist and i found myself acting pretty snobby. i was saying what i though a true film maker was and that this kid wasn't an artist because they didn't "love film" like i did. i realize now that i sounded like a big jerk. and i know i had some valid points but also, who the fuck am i to say what was art and what wasn't and who was an artist and who wasn't. so it made me think just what kind of person i did consider an artist or who i thought was just a jerk with a camera.
i talked to maggie about it. she would know i thought because she was so art-crazy and she is around snobby art majors all day. she said that she considered almost anyone an artist. anyone who did anything remotely artistic she considered an artist. which makes sense. and i don't know if im just full of myself or what, but i have a hardtime thinking of the guy who does the local television commericials an artist.
but when i told maggie this she had a good point. she said that even those schmucks who make the shitty local commericials put athetic value in what they do and they make certain decisions while editing and shooting that are potentially very artisitic decisions. which is true. i dont know. its just something ive been struggling with today. tell me what you think. 
