OMG ur liek so PUNX!

i'm an artist myself but goddamnit can artists ever be ANNOYING at times. the type of person that would take a belt sander to something new to 'rough' it up, i.e.: "i hate how NEW this looks!!" wtf???

applied to art school for the fall, currently in science school. no njs. pretty bikes though, just not in a position to dispose of that sort of income.

I went to art school. No NJS stuff in my stable yet, though there probably will be (I foresee a used Keirin frame w/S+S couplers someday).

i bet you wear carhartts and have an anarchist tool belt

no man. levi's only. and its a trucker apron to top it all off.

I go to SVA for photography(first year) kinda blows because of all the dumb idiots that really just want to be in advertising.

anyway, no NJS for me i got my hands on a great hand made lygie rode frame from the 70's and it serves me very well but i cant say that i wouldnt love a nice track frame be it italian, english, french, japanese, who cares a great bike is a great bike.

i go to an art school. last semester, graphic design. the only thing njs on my bike is the bars. there are lots of fixed gears and track bikes that show up every once and a while, but i never see anyone on them (aside from my friends that ride all the time, mr. monster legs has by far the nicest bike on campus) which is kind of wierd. after every vacation, there is always a two week span where there is an explosion of new bikes that i never see again.

jus' aksin' so don't get all mad or nuffin'--but seriously, did any great fine artists (i mean ones that a philistine like me might know--like picasso, pollock, leonardo, rembrandt, van gogh, kinkade (hardeeharhar!!)), etc.--really go to "art school"? i mean painters as opposed to say graphic designers and such.

for that matter, did any truly great writers go to "writer's workshops" and get mfa's in fiction? i mean like hemingway (who never even went to college as far as i know) or faulkner, or fitzgerald, or kerouac, or shakespeare, etc.

jus' aksin'. . .

why are people even answering this? Damn...the first question was fine, but the whole NJS thing - kinda silly. What difference does it make anyway? Or is this the new elitism? Sad...

VCU School of The Arts
Theatre: Performance

No NJS but I still think they're nifty haha.

Not singlespeed or fixed, but saw the post.
Went to Cleveland Institute of Art, BFA in Sculpture, then on to Columbia for Grad school in architecture. (some days I miss NYC)

I like hands on building and craftsmanship more than I like archi-speak, so after a year I dropped out to do furniture, carpentry, a bit of teaching and timber framing.

I think there was an implied connection between NJS parts and fixed gear bikes as both being trends adopted by art school students, which as this thread shows, apparently does not exist. Silly? Yes. Then again so are most generalizations about art school students.

alot of my favourites went to art school. alot of them still teach or at least monitor classes here and there...your examples of artists (great artists!) are what lay-people (no offense to lay-people!!) normally think of when they think of "art" or "artists". they were "rebels" bashing against the system. besides rembrandt, who basically ran his own academy (see all dutch school of rembrandt painters from his time...) but most artists, these days go through some schooling at a post secondary level. they brush up on art history; modernism, 50's expressionism, pop art, conceptual art, neo-geo, minimalism, performance, etc. . The most succesful artists in my mind choose to be informed as to what occured before them in the field of visual art. As well, contemporary artists like to keep abreast of what's happening or happened in cinema, graphic design, theater, politics, etc.

i am a former 'wild and crazy' painter who now makes very sober, drawings and photographs and boring conceptual video art. the change happened once i went to art school, opened up to what happened in art history, read more theory and studied film history. i dont regret it at all but it sure did make things more complicated...

I think *most* people need some art education. The trick is to know when to get out. Depending on where you go, it might serve you best to get out early. Some instructors have the ability to influence you in ways that have nothing to do with art instruction. I feel lucky to have meet a few of them.

as i said before, i've gone to three different art schools, got expelled from one of them. it took me awhile to find a good teacher. when i found one, it changed everything and i actually started to enjoy school

****. i didn't know i was a dumb idiot. thanks for letting me know.

i didnt go to art school. and i dont own njs. im a loooooser.

yeah. you lose.

sorry dude, i was only speaking from my experiance i didnt mean to generalise you in to that statement.

oh and MLPROJECT what bike do you ride? im just wondering if i have seen it around before

i asked. i find the answers interesting. thats all. no controversy.

What The Hell Is Njs?!?!?!

I'm an art school dropout therefore I can't afford NJS.



sad.

What's sad is that even without the dropout, most art students, current or former, can't afford sh*t.