Re: OT: Artspeak
On Friday, March 22, 2002, at 09:12 PM, William Robb wrote: > I often find myself takin the "b" out of "banal". Way back in high school, I mentioned that someone's work had 'put the anal back in analogy'. -Aaron - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
Re: OT: Artspeak
Bob, The artspeak has intrigued me, especially since I am a Lynch fan. Can you give me some more info on Hughes as I am not familiar with him? Thanks, Geoff > Hi, > > since it's Friday I thought I'd send you all this example of Artspeak > from an exhibition e-blurb I was sent. > > Bon appetit! > > "In Hughes' photographs, as in David Lynch's films, the banal constantly > hovers on the dream's uncertain boundary, or perhaps conversely, the > unconscious has its own bright presence in the real world." > > [...] > > "Half empty hotels and tower blocks are captured in the numinous light of > early morning, their etiolated colours taking texture with them." > > [...] > > "Hughes is an artist of the diminishing present, of time closing in. And yet > here, in that world beyond boredom, we suspect he finds things to marvel at, > things that take on an unearthly clarity." > > --- > Regards, > Bob > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
Re: OT: Artspeak
Hi, Doug, Right you are. Most politicians are, after all, lawyers! No wonder we're in the mess we're in. -frank Doug Franklin wrote: > Well, around here, politician is an almost proper subset of lawyer. > -- "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
Re: OT: Artspeak
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 17:39:00 -0500, frank theriault wrote: > > Rivals politician-speak for self-important emptiness. > C'mon nothing beats lawyer-speak, for self-important emptiness! Well, around here, politician is an almost proper subset of lawyer. > Instead of writing "last > Friday", he wrote "Friday 'ultimo'". That's just old fashioned "pompous assedness". > And, don't get me started on Military-speak (my favourite!). I think that's mostly so they can say they blew people into tiny pieces without making the general public realize too closely what they've said. ;^) TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
Re: OT: Artspeak
On 22 Mar 2002 at 17:43, Doug Franklin wrote: > On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 19:52:00 +, Bob Walkden wrote: > > > [...] example of Artspeak from an exhibition e-blurb I was sent. [...] > > Rivals politician-speak for self-important emptiness. > What did Zappa say? "Writing about art is like dancing about architecture." Or something to that effect... tv - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
Re: OT: Artspeak
C'mon nothing beats lawyer-speak, for self-important emptiness! I used to know a lawyer who, in his correspondence, refused to say "photocopy", but rather, called them "electro-photo-reproductions". Instead of writing "last Friday", he wrote "Friday 'ultimo'". I could go on... Sheesh! And, don't get me started on Military-speak (my favourite!). "res ipsa locquitor" ;-) -frank Doug Franklin wrote: > Rivals politician-speak for self-important emptiness. > -- "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
Re: OT: Artspeak
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 19:52:00 +, Bob Walkden wrote: > [...] example of Artspeak from an exhibition e-blurb I was sent. [...] Rivals politician-speak for self-important emptiness. TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
