Arts vs. Sports.

[SanFranciscan]

Are you more of an arts person or more of a sports person? Even though I just finished another season as a paid baseball photographer and enjoyed seeing the fans' enjoyment of MLB, it is unlikely that I will attend next season's baseball games now that I don't plan to return next season as a photographer in the ballpark. Yet I think that I might buy season tickets to musical theater if I can swing the price.

 

[TheGoofster]

Sports all the way. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a good musical, or a visit to a museum or art gallery, but I love sports. I grew up playing a variety of different sports, and have watched most professional sports almost my entire life.

 

[olena]

I love both. My sister used to throw it in my face about her being a cheerleader and me being in the choir in high school. He Varsity jacket has been rotting in my parents attic for 15 years, but I'm still singing. I even did some community theater last year.

But I LOVE baseball, so count me as a fan of both.

 

[::Snow_White::]

More of an art, but I still like a little bit of sports.
I love photography, paintings, broadway, books, and all that. Then I do love watching football and the local baseball/softball games.

 

[Cindy B]

Arts all the way.

I was a former theater major, enjoyed being in plays== I even met my future husband in a theater type production.

I do enjoy going to museums and looking at photography/art work. One of my favorite places in the world is Washington DC-- I love all the museums there.

 

[freckles and boo]

Arts.

I work in theatre. My husband works in "corporate theatre". Our kids haven't expressed an interested in sports. They take dance and drama and piano. (We tried t-ball with them when they were four and six. I was ready to strangle the team parents then because they were so pushy so I suspect I will have to bite my tongue off if they want to do team sports when they get older. )

 

[Galahad]

Arts here. I'm a musician. We have season tickets to two symphonies (plus the ones I play in) and go to Operas and Plays and a lot of other performances.

I played sports as a kid and both our son's also did sports but ultimately chose music.

 

[RadioNate]

Arts arts arts. For better or worse I married a sports type. I could do without the weekend long football marathons.

 

[Hoodie]

Both, but lean more sports.

Love the musical theater and museums, but I think the current trend in art styles across the board try to have more of a shock value than true artistic expression.

 

[xoprincessmomxo]

Well, this one's easy for me. I grew up in a house filled with art as my dad is an artist (oils on big canvas based on his experiences in Vietnam) so we were consumed in art from a very early age. I married an artist (guitar player, so musical artist). I was a cheerleader in highschool, but the closest I came to being in actual sports was dance. I enjoy watching gymnastics, ice skating, and tennis....But I'd take a good art opening or musical over a baseball game any day.

 

[lvanleer]

Both....I love music, museums, the theater......I do some photography, painting, and crafting however I also love football, NASCAR and other auto racing, Olympic sports, Extreme sports like motocross and snowboarding, and most other sports......I guess I'm just a well-rounded individual who is as happy sitting in the theater enjoying a concert, play, or musical or in the stands of a sporting event.

 

[It's A Happy Day]

Nature vs. nurture

I have 2 children - a boy 7 and a girl 6 - 12 months apart. Both are being brought up in the same household with the same rules and opportunities. Because of my childhood, I never though sports were for just boys and felt girls have the same choices at the younger ages. I have found that my son since he was very small has always had an athletic ability and is drawn to sports while my daughter will watch sports but has no urge to participate in them but loves to draw, paint, and looks for artistic outlets. DS7 is now in his 1st year of tackle football and plays baseball. DD6 has just signed up for her 1st art class. So is it something that they are taught or is it ingrained in us to look towards one thing over the other? Even recreationally DS likes to toss around a ball, play golf (we bought him his own clubs), etc. while DD picks flowers, leaves, and other nature things to create her own stuff.

And for the record I was very athletic throughout high school and college while DH quite peewee league t-ball and hated playing sports (loves to watch football). I was also very involved in choir/chorus throughout school. Both kids have been given the opportunity to do either or both.

 

[Todd&Copper]

Definitely arts. I do not like sports. I find them dreadfully boring.

[In my house growing up, DDad was the only guy, and he was not a sports fan, and netiher of us girls was athletically inclined, so that probably has a bit to do with my preference.]

 

[CapeCodTenor]

Easy question for me to asnwer, it has to be arts. I like sports, but not as much as I like arts. I like the arts so much I went to school to study opera.

 

[pansmermaidzlagoon]

Arts.

My interests include theatre, art, and music.

DD11 does dance, theatre, art, and music. Though her strong point is dance, so that is pretty athletic.

We did get her involved in sports early on, but she just didn't have the interest to stay with them.

She and I agree with the PP who stated DC was one of their fave places! She and love the art and history museums

I don't personally care for sports, especially not to watch on Tv or attend a sporting event. If DD were to participate, I would quickly become a huge fan though!!!

 

[HSMndLKfan92]

For after school activities, it's arts.
For entertainment, sports.

 

[tazdev3225]

Both for me. I was very athletic and played some sports as a child. I was also in the drama club and school shows in HS. I love photography, play the guitar and read and write poetry but I am just as happy at a ball game as I am at a museum. Have to thank my parents for that they immersed us in all sorts of activities as children to the best of their financial ability.

 

[duketennisgal]

Sports all the way for me. I started playing soccer/basketball when I was 4. For a while I played softball/basketball and soccer. Then I moved to softball/basketball and tennis. In middle school I did basketball/tennis. High school through now tennis has been my sport.

I love watching college basketball, pro & college football, pro baseball and tennis.

Favorite teams:
College Basketball - Duke Bluedevils (names kinda a giveaway) GTHC! GTHC!
College Football - Nebraska Cornhuskers (born in Omaha)
MLB - Atlanta
NFL - Panthers
Tennis - Djokovic, Ivanovic, Blake, Safin, Safina

So as you can see I'm a big sports fan!

 

[nkjzmom]

Interesting discussion.

We're having this discussion in our home now. DS will be a freshman in HS next year and he's got a choice to make. He is a percussionist in the band, plays the drumset in the jazz band, and is self-taught on the piano. He's also in his second year of football and is doing really well. I was so hoping he could play football in the fall and still participate in the stage or jazz band but I'm not sure that's possible in high school. He loves them both.

Our 11 year old DD plays soccer on a travel team and is also in the local youth orchestra playing violin.

We've got a good mixture right now though I know as they get older we'll have some harder choices to make.

It's a hard choice for me...a night at the theater or an Alabama football game? I don't want to choose!

 

[Imzadi]

Are you more of an arts person or more of a sports person? Even though I just finished another season as a paid baseball photographer and enjoyed seeing the fans' enjoyment of MLB, it is unlikely that I will attend next season's baseball games now that I don't plan to return next season as a photographer in the ballpark. Yet I think that I might buy season tickets to musical theater if I can swing the price.

How about switching gears and become a paid arts photographer? There's probably money in that for you, if you are used to shooting live action shots. Start off by volunteering to shoot at local dance classes, then move on to shoot pictures of area perfomances. People would pay to have professional pics of their kids in shows.

Martha Swope made photographing dance, theatre & musicals into an art form in itself. She has been official photographer of New York City Ballet, Martha Graham Dance Company, and Dance Theatre of Harlem. Some of her portraits have become iconic images of 20th-century dance. During her reign back in the 60's - 90's, she practically photographed any moving artist worth photographing. People had to get Martha to photograph them. She graced the pages of the New York Times Theatre section every Sunday and is published in many dance & theatre books & magazines. She shot a poster of Mikhail Baryshnikov that hung in my room as a teen. She's like the Annie Leibovitz of dance & theatre.

The top pictures are all hers:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4HPIB_en___US237&q=Martha+swope+photo

and:
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Martha%20swope&w=all&s=int

Books with pics by Martha:
http://www.amazon.com/s?ie