OK, Geezer

[laika]

Are geezers overrepresented at Creative Spark? A conversation with that lovable bob (whither bob, btw?) set me thinking about this.

 

[OliveOyl]

Why are you asking this? What’s Bob got to do with it? What’s going on in yer noggin?

This curious geezer is just wondering about your wondering…

 

[laika]

What’s Bob got to do with it?

Not Bob, but bob. The recent bob who swung through recently and apparently disappeared.

I am also a geezer. In the course of a pm with bob, I just came to wonder if we were predominantly adults of a certain age, and gentle folk who weren't prepared for bob's style of art, which he declined to show.

There is nothing at all dark in my wonderings.

 

[Artyczar]

Do you mean the bob who was banned? I have no idea how old he was.

I feel like you may be right in that a lot of us are older (50+), and the minority are under 45. Maybe you can take a survey if you are especially curious. But I if that was any reason for bob not showing his art, that would have been pretty stupid and his issue. Not ours.

I have felt more like a person after 50 than I ever was before that age.

 

[OleKobe]

I'm 55. I didn't even think to pick up a paint brush (except to paint the bathroom) until I was 46. As far as bob, maybe he was a performance artist. His art was getting everyone pissed off at him, sort of like Andy Kaufman!

 

[GrantCee]

I'm just waiting for that age when I'm considered "eccentric" rather than a "public nuisance"...

 

[Enyaw]

When I was young they served gas and when you got your couple of dollars and paid the kid, the kid serving would tell you: thanks man, see you later. Then one day the kid said: Thank you Sir. I knew I was past the point of return. I had crossed over and didn't know it.

 

[laika]

I feel like you may be right in that a lot of us are older (50+), and the minority are under 45. Maybe you can take a survey if you are especially curious.

It's not an interest worthy of a survey, as far as I'm concerned. But thanks?

I was not aware that bob had been banned. O bob, we hardly knew ye. I don't want to violate the sacred nature of a private message, but I was left wondering if bob found us too dainty in our critiques and whatnot. Too restrained and too encouraging of one another.

 

[Enyaw]

left wondering if bob found us too dainty in our critiques and whatnot. Too restrained and too encouraging of one another

Best left alone. These art sites are more community than learning. You like mine and I'll like yours.

 

[Artyczar]

He was banned for more than a few reasons, trust me. I don't really care what he thought of us because he was not nice to our members from the get-go.

 

[JSparrow]

Not a geezer here. LOL, but I AM over 60. I figure by this age I should have learned how to be nice, or at least read a room. But some don't learn and that lack does not mean a certain someone was on the younger side. And not really sure that someone cared how he was taken.

 

[E.J.H.]

I have a feeling the forum format like CS is rather old fashioned.
I strongly prefer it over social mediums like Instagram, Facebook, Tiktok etc. Mainly because of the fugitive nature of the posts on such sites.

I am kind of forced to be on facebook (everything here in Iceland goes over FB) and it is a nightmare to search for stuff. Also the seemingly random way it shows you things, even in the groups, is very annoying. I don´t like algorithms pushing my attention around

On a forum like this you have a much better control over what you see, and post. Stuff is easy to find because of the subforum structure, and it stays where it is!

Full disclosure, yeah, I´ll be fifty three this year....

 

[JSparrow]

I have a feeling the forum format like CS is rather old fashioned.
I strongly prefer it over social mediums like Instagram, Facebook, Tiktok etc. Mainly because of the fugitive nature of the posts on such sites.

I am kind of forced to be on facebook (everything here in Iceland goes over FB) and it is a nightmare to search for stuff. Also the seemingly random way it shows you things, even in the groups, is very annoying. I don´t like algorithms pushing my attention around

On a forum like this you have a much better control over what you see, and post. Stuff is easy to find because of the subforum structure, and it stays where it is!

Full disclosure, yeah, I´ll be fifty three this year....

Everything you said about forum format over the other social mediums is spot on. I much prefer the forum format for art and other creative endeavors for all the reasons you point out.

 

[16ga]

I'm a young whippersnapper on here.
I agree for things like art a forum is much better and I prefer them for a lot other sites.

 

[Desforges]

I am getting pretty old here. Now that my fabulous looks are out of the way, my best work is yet to come.

 

[Artyczar]

That's a great way to see it Jocelyne!

 

[snoball]

I’m a geezer in age and a whippersnapper at heart.

 

[E.J.H.]

I think using the (fantastic) term "whippersnapper" puts anyone firmly in the geezer camp, no matter their age....

 

[ntl]

Lol! I've noticed "whippersnapper" creeping into my thoughts recently. Haven't said it aloud, but the word has been there a time or two...

 

[Iain]

"

I’m a geezer in age and a whippersnapper at heart.

I swear that I am stuck in my teens. I love the word whippersnapper, with one's tongue nestled firmly in the cheek - with the gobstopper. Geezer could never be used, even back-in-the-day, without a healthy dose of irony. There's something quite cute about snoball calling herself a geezer. Like wearing an outsized suit.