[Leica] RE: Crap-o-la

[Jim Brick <jimbrick@photoaccess.com>]

We should all go out and buy "Blue Dog" paintings and be done with it!!!

I'm thinking of doing a photographic series on "cows udders." Do you think
it's udder nonsense? Maybe I can milk it for all it's worth.

cowudders.com

Jim

dot.com's are big now.


At 09:49 AM 2/16/00 +0000, B. D. Colen wrote:
>Come, on, Mike....First off, we're discussing art, not higher math, physics,
>etc., which are utterly inaccessible to those who don't study them...
>
>I realize that I'm pontificating on quick sand here, but I do think there's
>a difference between pandering to the "masses," who presumably think those
>Keene paintings of big-eyed kids are high art, and producing art whose
>meaning can be understood by someone who gives it some thought.
>
>Yes, there is art that takes study, just the way higher math - well, in my
>case, lower arithmetic ;-) - takes study. But FAR too often, those who are
>unable to convey their message hide behind the argument that what they have
>produced is "art," and if you can't understand it, dear viewer, the fault is
>yours.
>
>B. D.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Mike
>Johnston
>Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 10:15 PM
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject: [Leica] Crap-o-la
>
>
>>>>"Inaccessible" is, in this case, a synonym for "crap."<<<
>
>
>In which case, astrophysics and higher mathematics are crap. Not to
>mention Japanese calligraphy, and Latin. Economics is certainly crap!
>Kant has got to be crap. St. Augustine? Crap-o-la.
>
>Just because 99/100ths of all the photography presented in the world
>panders to the public's conceit of instant and automatic accessibility
>doesn't mean that it all has to be that way. Not everything is easy to
>get.
>
>Keep looking.
>
>--Mike
>
>