Darts - possible career path?

[Jean Kelly]

I have totally enjoyed reading this thread! "Chevy trucks and Viarga," I laughed till the tears rolled.

Jean

[Mike McCarty]

Don't forget Dick Blick up in the top right corner.

Marta, et al, please don't hesitate to make fun (not that I thought you were) of anything I say. I don't take any of this too seriously, so have at me, or any of my hair brain ideas.

I'm not trying to recruit new artists, I surely don't need any more competition. I would, however, like to see those with a real talent, those who create beautiful pieces of art to last for centuries, to be compensated on at least on an equal scale as a dart thrower, who at the end of the day has created nothing.

I think it's "process" that intrigues people. Even if it's watching a bloke repeatedly hitting a small bullseye with a dart time after time. As the camera pans in we see his eyes, his mental process at work, his execution. After all, when an art competition is held, the work (the process) has already been completed. We never get to look into the painters eyes as he thought through the process. We never witnessed those deft strokes, or the planning over sketches and color studies.

I think these things could captivate an audience at least as much as a game of poker, if produced and edited in the right way. If you could incorporate victory, defeat, anger, humiliation, torment, controversy, gold, beauty, skill, treachery, deceit, I think Dick Blick would drive up in a Chevy truck for all that.

It couldn't be like an instructional video. If that were true they'd be selling like hot cakes. You have to pit one fellow against another in some fashion, like an Iron Chef. After all, the Chef doesn't just bring in the food for tasting, they chop off the foods head, wrap it up in sea weed and boil it, right before your eyes. Process, coupled with intrigue, that's what fascinates me.

If someone could find the magic formula. You know for TV poker it was the simple act of putting the camera eye into the table at each player position such that the viewing audience could know what two cards the player was holding. This simple idea has created such a sensation that this years winner will collect $5,000,000 in front of the TV audience.

Let them in on the PROCESS I say.