As crass as my post sounded, I hope I didn't come off like some raving artist-hate-mongerer. I just tend to get rather opinionated when art discussions come up here, and I honestly think the work is very poor (and I happen to adore Turner). But as we've both said, the beauty of it all is the subjective experience we can all draw. Poe-tay-toe, Poe-tah-toe.
My two cents? it's more horse$hit hotel giclee-bound abstraction. the mentioning of a Turner similarity actually has me a bit fuming. The color palette on some pieces might be similar, but the brush work and layering - the actual pushing of paint is quite different. grrrr.
My two cents? it's more horseshit hotel giclee-bound abstraction. the mentioning of a Turner similarity actually has me a bit fuming. The color palette on some pieces might be similar, but the brush work and layering - the actual pushing of paint is quite different. grrrr.
this doesn't relate to the predictability of the caucus event, but does relate to its process itself... and is kind of a "whine"...
i stood up for edwards last night in my first caucus (moved across the river from IL last year). after weeks reading Daily Kos and others rip on the state's status as first in the nation, and on the caucus process itself, i felt a little angered at the anti-*iowan* (the *people*, not the process) sentiments, but also understood some of the frustrations. and after last night, i'm pretty much still in that same boat - the taste of my first caucus was a little sweet but also a little sour.
our precinct's numbers meant we needed 69 people to be rooting for a "viable" candidate (you have to have 15% of the total vote, which was 458 people in our precinct - GREAT turnout). obama's crowd had 260 or so folks, hillary had 80-something, and we/edwards had... yup... 69 exactly. the way this whole process works means that if we were one person fewer than this number, we would have been now seen as equal to the group of 3 kucinich supporters - meaning, equal to ZILCH. what a crock of shit. i read a couple similar other stories last night. does this happen quite often? scary.
i suppose i initially thought they looked like contemporary japanese characters, and i could see the vancouverans' collective beef about that. but that type of aesthetic has saturated the western world's arts/crafts/internet culture already, throughout the last several years. look at http://www.jottodotcom.com (especially the bubblesoap section) or www.shawnimals.com and then follow links from there, and then follow more links from those links. it's already everywhere in the flat-shapes, vector world.
i used to work in one of the bigger space science museums in the country, and had a chance to work with jim lovell on a human space exploration exhibit. some curators and historians and i were given a box of photographs from him from his gemini 12 mission - a couple hundred of pics of the earth from space (amongst other mission activities too). it was very surreal. i wasn't looking at photographs in a book or online, i was holding color 8x10s his (and buzz's) "ultimate vacation." amazing stuff.
Pudifoot -i get the red shift / blue shift shirt, but not the latter. guess i'm 1/2 geek? maybe i get it from my dad, because "my mom thinks i'm cool."
anyways... why the hell is the "You Are Here (ARROW)" milky way galaxy t-shirt not on this list? i think the terrorists have won.
i stood up for edwards last night in my first caucus (moved across the river from IL last year). after weeks reading Daily Kos and others rip on the state's status as first in the nation, and on the caucus process itself, i felt a little angered at the anti-*iowan* (the *people*, not the process) sentiments, but also understood some of the frustrations. and after last night, i'm pretty much still in that same boat - the taste of my first caucus was a little sweet but also a little sour.
our precinct's numbers meant we needed 69 people to be rooting for a "viable" candidate (you have to have 15% of the total vote, which was 458 people in our precinct - GREAT turnout). obama's crowd had 260 or so folks, hillary had 80-something, and we/edwards had... yup... 69 exactly. the way this whole process works means that if we were one person fewer than this number, we would have been now seen as equal to the group of 3 kucinich supporters - meaning, equal to ZILCH. what a crock of shit. i read a couple similar other stories last night. does this happen quite often? scary.
Pentaphylangecoco, file photo (2003). Note the coconut tree protrusion stemming from subject's pinky finger.
anyways... why the hell is the "You Are Here (ARROW)" milky way galaxy t-shirt not on this list? i think the terrorists have won.