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January 10, 2009

the future belongs…

35 Comments

[Car­toon ins­pi­red by this 1997 Doc Searls blog post]

35 Responses to “the future belongs…”

1. Cathy Elaine says:

   January 10, 2009 at 6:51 pm

   lol. Long live the artists!
2. Jeff Schmidt says:

   January 10, 2009 at 6:56 pm

   can’t ya just be a chi­nese artist or something?
3. Kiri says:

   January 10, 2009 at 7:05 pm

   I am an artist, and I am Chi­nese.
   Does that mean that I win?
4. Rick Murray says:

   January 10, 2009 at 7:27 pm

   Hugh, Opti­mist? Nice to see.
5. Ryan Anderson says:

   January 10, 2009 at 8:27 pm

   Gaping­void — Car­toons drawn on the back of busi­ness cards in sumi-e.
6. Gray says:

   January 11, 2009 at 12:40 am

   Anyone have an auto­ma­tic article writer?
7. vp says:

   January 11, 2009 at 3:41 am

   Every artist has an antiar­tist. Every chi­nese an antichi­nese. Result = annihi­la­tion. The­re­for no one has a future.
   That’s was antiop­ti­mist )
8. Chris says:

   January 11, 2009 at 4:37 am

   Popu­la­tion of China: 1.32b
   Popu­la­tion of India: 1.15b
   My bet is on India. Chi­nese dynas­ties have never been able to stay cohe­sive for long. Plus, so far, democ­racy is the poli­ti­cal model that gets overth­rown the least. Either way, our chil­dren and our children’s chil­dren inhe­rit some very exci­ting times.
9. Anonymous says:

   January 11, 2009 at 10:02 am

   I am an artist and I speak Chinese.
10. Matches Malone says:

    January 11, 2009 at 10:04 am

    So, if you’re a Chi­nese artist.…
    I say thee yay to a great print.
11. faheyr says:

    January 11, 2009 at 10:08 am

    I’m neither an artist or chi­nese. I guess I should go live in the past. Can someone invent a time machine for me please?
12. Travis Dahle says:

    January 11, 2009 at 10:30 am

    What if you are neither Chi­nese or an Artist? Am I up a creek without a paddle? That’s sort of depressing…
13. DoreenatDMS says:

    January 11, 2009 at 11:07 am

    By pro­fes­sion, I am not an artist …I am not Chi­nese. I’m done.
14. colin says:

    January 11, 2009 at 12:58 pm

    as neither i guess i’m fucked!
15. bonnieL says:

    January 11, 2009 at 1:32 pm

    Hugh, agree with you 50% — the artists part. The future belongs to artists — period.
    Your square-shaped/rectangular/shaped dra­wings are always my favorites, — not sure why, perhaps the jux­ta­po­si­tion of chaos in a finite mathe­ma­ti­cal shape?
    bon­nieL
    triiibe on!
16. Hannah says:

    January 11, 2009 at 1:56 pm

    I think all of us have an innate crea­tive lon­ging. What is the step from crea­tor to artist? Perhaps, if you don’t take that step, you had bet­ter be Chinese…or you’re fucked?
17. Ben Grada says:

    January 11, 2009 at 2:10 pm

    Or we should make China and India fight each other ! and leave the Hugh­train alone.
18. Ben Grada says:

    January 11, 2009 at 2:10 pm

    Or we should make China and India fight each other ! and leave the Hugh­train alone.
19. Very Evolved says:

    January 11, 2009 at 6:50 pm

    Is there room for a crea­tive non-chinese neu­ros­cien­tist?
    Patrick
    veryevolved.com
20. MiriamS says:

    January 11, 2009 at 7:25 pm

    Love your work. Very hard case and bri­lliant.
    ps: am an artist also but not chinese.
21. mulder says:

    January 12, 2009 at 7:41 am

    @kiri — that means, you have two futu­res. choose wisely. @faheyr don’t we any­way? ‘s at least what my neu­ros­cien­tist tells me.
22. philos says:

    January 12, 2009 at 7:58 am

    Thirty years ago a simi­lar quote was said by one of the most famous and sig­ni­fi­cant Greek music com­po­sers, Manos Had­ji­da­kis, who had sta­ted that “In Greece the most impor­tant artists are com­mu­nists or homo­se­xuals. And I am not a com­mu­nist”.
    I say great minds think alike! )
23. maggiefox says:

    January 12, 2009 at 8:58 am

    @chris — Chi­nese dynas­ties (impe­rial or other­wise) have not remai­ned cohe­sive for long lar­gely because of tra­di­tions around pro­perty and wealth dis­tri­bu­tion. Esta­tes were gene­rally divi­ded bet­ween mul­ti­ple male heirs (in con­trast with the Wes­tern Euro­pean tra­di­tion of pri­mo­ge­ni­ture), mea­ning that sig­ni­fi­cant wealth could be dimi­nished over just a few gene­ra­tions.
    Just sayin’.
24. Aaron says:

    January 12, 2009 at 10:49 am

    I say busi­ness a per­for­mance art. We act in a cer­tain way to com­mu­ni­cate mea­ning to our audience. The per­for­mance is still up for inter­pre­ta­tion, but if you bud­get is large enough, you get to do it again, refi­ning the mes­sage and artifacts.
25. Michelle Greer says:

    January 12, 2009 at 7:02 pm

    *busts out pom poms*
    Go Hugh!
26. Simon says:

    January 13, 2009 at 1:53 am

    I am Chi­nese and I con­si­der myself an artist, ergo I own a piece of the future too.
27. lineaist says:

    January 13, 2009 at 7:14 am

    I’m an artist and I’m lear­ning Chi­nese… Does that count?
28. antigravity says:

    January 13, 2009 at 8:26 pm

    I am only Chi­nese and an artist in theory…
29. David Everitt-Carlson says:

    January 14, 2009 at 1:40 am

    Ever­yone should read Hugh’s Doc Searls refe­rence post before com­men­ting on this cartoon.
30. David Everitt-Carlson says:

    January 14, 2009 at 1:40 am

    Ever­yone should read Hugh’s Doc Searls refe­rence post before com­men­ting on this cartoon.
31. John Gillett says:

    January 14, 2009 at 11:00 am

    I get my lunch from a sand­wich artist who may be Chi­nese. You may know her…
32. Helegis says:

    January 16, 2009 at 4:46 pm

    OMG this thing is bet­ter than “Ars longa, vita bre­vis” I need to use it as my new motto
33. Aaron says:

    January 17, 2009 at 7:19 pm

    There must be a lot of artists in china. How do you define art.……kung fu artist??
34. Oliver Spalding says:

    January 19, 2009 at 8:08 am

    *Are* you an artist?
35. Jake Edwards says:

    January 21, 2009 at 1:59 am

    Hugh
    is this old hat ?
    http://i445.photobucket.com/albums/qq172/joecooool418/P1012141.jpg