Re: [MOPO] A little story about Major Poster Auctions

[J R]

Saul,   I guess I was under the impression from your post that if the item had not been pulled and sent you looking elsewhere that you might have gone along with the ride as they bid up COCB on Bruce's auction to $113.00 -- if you had, in order to win it, you would have had to get closer to $115 or $120... maybe more. Who knows how high the winning bidder was prepared to go? Just speculation.   Don't know why you felt I was trying to "sermonize and pass judgment about what is and what is not pleasing to the eye for the rest of us" -- I was offering, as always, simply my own opinion on the matter. I thought that's what we were doing here, talking about all aspects of movie posters, exchanging opinions on same. Did I miss a memo?   I think what I said was that I considered the design of the poster to be a very artistic presentation, but not great art (meaning "artwork" and perhaps I should have been more precise about that) because the poster consists exclusively of a photographic close-up of a face. As someone who made their living for a long time with photography and video production, I personally can't accept something as simple and easy to do as a tight close-up as "artwork" -- it can be a great image and very "artistic" (and the one of Hannah on COCB really is... I like it), but to me calling something great art requires the piece to be something where a little more actual human inspiration, effort and time was devoted to creating it than just getting in close with a good lens and clicking the shutter. Of course, many others disagree with my feelings on this -- you're never going to get people to agree on what is or ain't art.   Same goes for the design of the MoviePosterBid website. Some have said they really like it, others not so much. We went through a lot of different design concepts -- some of them very cool, high design and graphic-intensive. We decided that ultimately we wanted the actual movie posters being put up for auction to be the "stars" of the site and therefore consciously passed on all the ultra-cool designs and went with something very basic and simple, but clean and (we hope) pleasing to the eye, but not distracting from the movie posters themselves.   -- JR ----- Original Message ----- From: Saul H. Chapman PhD To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 19:26 Subject: Re: [MOPO] A little story about Major Poster Auctions JR   I must say I'm not sure where you got the idea I was "probably prepared to pay $120" for the COCB poster.  That one eludes me.  As for Tom, I think he's been watching too much NOVA lately.    Jr, are you sure you want to be commenting about what is and what is not robust design or art?  Maybe you'd better take a look at MOPOBid's web design.  I mean the actual webpage design presentation, the graphics.  Is this your sense of design, your sense of evocative imagery, your sense of good color matching and management?  And you're going to sermonize and pass judgment about what is and what is not pleasing to the eye for the rest of us?  Give me a break.   Saul     Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.296 / Virus Database: 265.6.0 - Release Date: 12/17/04 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.