Posted by franznap on 11 Mar 2012, 10:10
Hi Rich,
i don't know if i understood well your saying, but i hope you did not stop to post your great stuff here, because for me your work is always very inspiring often full of happiness and irony , very intelligent in my opinion.
Let me then say my view about your post:
I too as you and many others started this "Hobby" in the childhood, and i feel as you the same thrill about this stuff, and like you i keep this piece of childhood in me and every day it saves my life.....
We all share this, but we are all different, and thank God for it, because it is always a treasure to meet people like you or other of this Benno's family, and learn and be surprised by something which we would not have done.
This is the reason why i personally feel the word "Hobby" to short for me : hobby looks to me like something less important than the "real Business", like we are somehow joking about it when the real stuff is outside, in money business and sometimes to real trivial life. When we where children this was the "real stuff", why not now?
Next week probably i will have my first test cast of my masters, it will come to my studio (I have an architecture one) and i will celebrate with my partners and my colleague the event, because a dream of my childhood will come true.
For me, now, this "Hobby" is something more, it is part of my life and it has the same importance that my business work.
I have forum friends, some just beginners, or pure lovers and with no ambition on something more than play and have fun, and some which are very fanatic and always almost maniac on historical accuracy and other, and sometimes it becomes a bit heavy to listen to them, but this is their way and i love them all, the important is that they will not impose to me the "right way", because o would not accept it.
So Hobby, or more than it for me it is just right like it is, for a while let us be better people, at least in this world called Benno's, so i take your comment in this way, let's keep ourself better people, remember our childhood, and take it easy (with the others).
Looking forward to your new stuff posted.`
ciao
F.