Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/16

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Subject: Re: [Leica] RE: Crap-o-la
From: john <bosjohn@mediaone.net>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 16:24:43 +0000

Jim Brick wrote:
> 
> 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
> >
> >
I would like to cut through all this bull and steak out a claim that this
thread lact tasts. Forgive me for the bum steer.
John