Cut With Flourish is Ed Macovaz's musings on the web, music and design

"Ever since Andy Warhol made “ideas without skill” fashionable back in the 60s, it seems to me that popular culture has been playing a game of “skill limbo”. How low can we go? How badly drawn can a cartoon be and still be considered a cartoon? How many drum machines and sequencers can we stack up to avoid having to learn a real instrument?"

Stephen Worth Bobulate: All of the above

Why does learning a skill give someone such a sense of entitlement? Deal with the fact that ideas speak to people more than skill.

It hurts when skill it takes years to learn loses out to a flash of inspiration, but trying to bash ideas isn’t going to change that.