There has always been one common denominator when it comes to a pissing match on a forum. It is always Will Heath. Gods gift to bonsai. Sometimes I am involved. Sometimes not. Sometimes someone else complete different is involved. Sometimes it is not even Will's usual trio or four that he fights with. It happens on AoB it happens at knob, it happend at BT, they cut the head off. It happened at others, they cut the head off. Bonsaichat, banned. Whats the deal? Does he have a social problem?
I have never seen anyone twist the truth as much as you do. Remember Vance Wood, John Chown, and others besides myself were mass banned from Bchat. We all outlasted that forum.
I was banned from BT for abusing a rep point system that everyone, including yourself abused. My crime was giving neg rep points to a person who constantly gave them to me, but I used a friends computer to do it, a friend who also gave him neg points on the same day. Strangely they remained a member. My attitude had nothing to do with it, but the fact that Carl Bergstrom and myself held the top spot for rep points since its beginning pissed a few people off, like yourself, who thought I was undeserving. Sound fa miler? No big deal, I went and focused on AoB and later, KoB, best thing I ever did, besides the rep system was a crock anyhow and I spoke out against it when it was started.
Whats a matter with being a little humble?
Nothing, you should try it.
Will doesn't know everything about bonsai, and it shows in what he does. If I have to listen to someone talk down to me then they darn well better have earned it. Will has not earned it. He may never earn it. You Vance, you have earned it, but you are humble. If you don't know something you don't say anything. You don't say anything cause you won't risk being called on being wrong. You don't want to be wrong. Will is wrong a lot and still thinks he is the bonsai king.
Never claimed I knew everything, what I have said is please go to any article I have wrote, published or not and point out where I am wrong. You have failed to do this, ever. When you do attempt it, you turn in personal, away from the subject. What's the matter Al, can't even have an intelligent conversation without making it personal? Bottom line, point out when I am wrong, then we can take it from there, until then, your just a loud mouth with bad breath.
Yet the next day he is telling someone how bad they are doing or how a branch should be tweaked or the scroll should be moved 2 cm to the right.
Again, point out when I am wrong and I'll be more than pleased to have an intelligent debate on the subject where we can all learn. However, you seem incapable of this, instead you would much rather debate me, instead of the subject, as you have in this very thread.
Articles about chop sticks and mushrooms do nothing for me or the community at large. These were just filler articles in a dying magazine.
How about articles on design, bonsai history, bonsai design, art theory, etc? Looks like you have only read two articles of mine......
Bonsai Focus, ABS Journal, Unione Bonsaisti Italiani, BCI Magazine are all dying? I think you are referring to the three or four articles I had in Bonsai Today, which was the largest and most popular English bonsai magazine at the time, who merged with Bonsai Europe to form Bonsai Focus, hardly dying, by any means. Nice try at an insult though.
Now that I have said all that, here is what I would like to see happen. Go away Will, come back in five years with 5 or 10 trees that blow us away. If that is not possible, then just shut the F$3@ up already.
And this is what I would like to see....stop worrying about me, you do not impress me in the least, your own bonsai are ahead of my own, as they should be with decades more time, but they are far from being master level. You also do not know everything, although you think so and you hate being told you may have did something wrong. You are incapable of having an intelligent debate and I seriously doubt if you have a single thing to offer as far as knowledge goes that isn't readily available on the web.
I owe you nothing, I do not answer to you, and I certainly do not need to explain myself to you. In short, you're a damn good stand maker, that got you on AoB, but you offer little else to brag about. I have no respect for you and to be honest, if not for replying to your lies, misinformation, and general envy filled rants, I'd have nothing at all to say to you. Isn't it strange that you blame me, but you start this crap every time. Do you think all the members are idiots?
Once again proving to me and this so called bonsai community that he brags about constantly is entitled to a little Will photo show on just where he is today.
You really are dense.
He has been working on bonsai since 2004. Thats 5 years, cut that in half for climate and thats 2.5 years. Plenty enough time for a self professed master to really have something to show us by now.
Another lie. Tell you what Al, you show me where I professed to be a master and I'll shut the frack up, fail to do so, you shut up. Put you balls where your mouth is.
I've seen a couple retusa's, a scrawny bar branched mugo pine, and a stick in a pot windswept tunuki branch. If this is it, why are you even defending this guy, further if your training him then it might be time to pay for a little better help...
Oh look, an insult at Vance now as well? Vance doesn't train me, we're simply friends. leave your insults for me Al, they don't really bother me, considering the source.
Cheers,
Will