hi, it's been really fun reading neatorama over the last year or so, but i have a few comments i'd like to make about the upcoming queue.
1) is it normal that on rss feed, the images of the queue do not show? or am i the only having the problem?
2) i think it's a great idea to get people to contribute, but i have mostly skipped over whatever is in the queue for the much better quality of posts by neatorama writers. it's a personal opinion, just my two-cents worth and you will, of course, continue to do what you deem fit for the blog.
what about the fact that at 16, US citizens can carry guns and kill people but not be allowed to drink until 21? isn't there a huge loophole in that kind of reasoning?
Pudifoot: it's easy to say that when one lives in a wealthy country where food is so easily available so much so that the world's most politically influential country -- and other more or less developed countries -- have an obesity problem and so much so that foodscapes may be made out of it, for no reason other than Art. whereas, on another side of the planet, people can't even begin to think of art for want of food.
don't get me wrong, i love art, i make a living out of it. i just think that it's symptomatic of an extremely imbalanced distribution of wealth in the world and i think that as a good citizen of the world in which we live, we have a right to be concerned.
all i would like to do is raise some questions, uncomfortable as they may seem to us who are lucky enough to have so much food and internet access. the other thing i would like is for people to put this whole thing in context, see the bigger picture and not just appreciate art for art's sake. certainly, it is beautiful, but art exists because it makes a statement of something. or at least, that is the case for most art in most of history.
in the light of this, i would rather congratulate Carl on his art which allows this controversial subject to be raised; it would then have served a purpose that extends beyond simple "art" or simple "food and world hunger".
and the next step would be: what can be done about it? or does one not really care? not even enough to raise questions?
Thank you for your concern about the food used in the images.
Unfortunately there is always some waste, but the majority of it is divided up amongst the team of people who work on these images, and so as well as providing employment for them, I also help to feed their families.
nice-looking but totally outrageous if you consider how much hunger there is in the world! what i would like to know is, is that real food? what does he do with it after he has shot his photos?
1) is it normal that on rss feed, the images of the queue do not show? or am i the only having the problem?
2) i think it's a great idea to get people to contribute, but i have mostly skipped over whatever is in the queue for the much better quality of posts by neatorama writers. it's a personal opinion, just my two-cents worth and you will, of course, continue to do what you deem fit for the blog.
congratulations btw, keep up the good work!
it's easy to say that when one lives in a wealthy country where food is so easily available so much so that the world's most politically influential country -- and other more or less developed countries -- have an obesity problem and so much so that foodscapes may be made out of it, for no reason other than Art. whereas, on another side of the planet, people can't even begin to think of art for want of food.
don't get me wrong, i love art, i make a living out of it. i just think that it's symptomatic of an extremely imbalanced distribution of wealth in the world and i think that as a good citizen of the world in which we live, we have a right to be concerned.
all i would like to do is raise some questions, uncomfortable as they may seem to us who are lucky enough to have so much food and internet access. the other thing i would like is for people to put this whole thing in context, see the bigger picture and not just appreciate art for art's sake. certainly, it is beautiful, but art exists because it makes a statement of something. or at least, that is the case for most art in most of history.
in the light of this, i would rather congratulate Carl on his art which allows this controversial subject to be raised; it would then have served a purpose that extends beyond simple "art" or simple "food and world hunger".
and the next step would be: what can be done about it? or does one not really care? not even enough to raise questions?
the answers to these, i leave to each his own.
thank you for listening.
Thank you for your concern about the food used in the images.
Unfortunately there is always some waste, but the majority of it is divided up amongst the team of people who work on these images, and so as well as providing employment for them, I also help to feed their families.
Kind regards,
Carl"