Re: [silk] Art, or what

2007-05-15 Thread Nishant Shah
On 5/16/07, Deepa Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nishant wrote: There is surely a difference between art that shocks and art that > sensationalises. Art should, per se, shock, inspire, inspire, leading > you to different paradigms of the sublime. It is about seeking the > most impossible, the

Re: [silk] Art, or what

2007-05-15 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Abhishek Hazra [16/05/07 09:40 +0530]: great! wonderful! obviously Neeraj Jain and his goons have their supporters, as Mr. Ashok Malik so eloquently demonstrates. obviuously the article glosses over multiple points: the fact that this is happening in Narendra Modi's fascist state of Gujrat for ex

Re: [silk] Art, or what

2007-05-15 Thread Deepa Mohan
Nishant wrote: There is surely a difference between art that shocks and art that sensationalises. Art should, per se, shock, inspire, inspire, leading you to different paradigms of the sublime. It is about seeking the most impossible, the improbable, and the disparate. Nishant...I agree with

Re: [silk] Art, or what

2007-05-15 Thread Nishant Shah
Frankly, I'd find this pretty distasteful [1]. This seems to be just another example of the recent trend of "shock art" like the display of dead bodies as art: And here I was, thinking that the only good art it art that shocks you. There is surely a difference between art that shocks and art tha

Re: [silk] Lack of seed level funding in India: further thoughts?

2007-05-15 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Udhay Shankar N wrote [at 06:57 AM 5/16/2007] : Since marketing costs in the US are an order of magnitude higher than in India, voilĂ . So, even for those US companies which take $100k as a seed round, they'll need further cash infusions earlier than an equivalent US company er. An equivalen

Re: [silk] Art, or what

2007-05-15 Thread Biju Chacko
On 5/16/07, shiv sastry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.dailypioneer.com/columnist1.asp?main_variable=Columnist&file_name=ashok%2Fashok77.txt&writer=ashok Pioneer edit For Left libertines, it's okay to malign Christ and Durga in 'art' A large cross depicting Christ with his penis hangi

Re: [silk] Art, or what

2007-05-15 Thread Abhishek Hazra
great! wonderful! obviously Neeraj Jain and his goons have their supporters, as Mr. Ashok Malik so eloquently demonstrates. obviuously the article glosses over multiple points: the fact that this is happening in Narendra Modi's fascist state of Gujrat for example. where a political leader like Ner

[silk] Art, or what

2007-05-15 Thread shiv sastry
http://www.dailypioneer.com/columnist1.asp?main_variable=Columnist&file_name=ashok%2Fashok77.txt&writer=ashok Pioneer edit For Left libertines, it's okay to malign Christ and Durga in 'art' A large cross depicting Christ with his penis hanging out, semen dripping from it into a commode. A n

Re: [silk] Lack of seed level funding in India: further thoughts?

2007-05-15 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Vinit Bhansali wrote: [ on 06:15 AM 5/16/2007 ] Well, this has been a very common issue amongst VC's (atleast what I get from their blogs) about how the barrier to entry is so low that very few companies require multi-million dollar investment early on. To my way of thinking, "low entry barrie

Re: [silk] Lack of seed level funding in India: further thoughts?

2007-05-15 Thread Vinit Bhansali
> Not exactly true. A startup in Silicon Valley can actually use $5-10 > million in a first round of funding. A startup in India doesn't need > that kind of money in the first round, especially if we are talking > about a company whose output is software. The kind of money an > average Indian

Re: [silk] Splitting the bill

2007-05-15 Thread Dave Long
Moreover, when asked to choose, diners prefer the individual pay to the inefficient split-bill method. Like many studies of this type, perhaps that should read "when asked to chose, college sophomores prefer the individual pay to the split-bill method". Most diners I know prefer the split-

Re: [silk] Lack of seed level funding in India: further thoughts?

2007-05-15 Thread Mahesh Murthy
I've been a seed-level funder for some 8 years now, earlier through Passionfund and now through (duh) Seedfund. And there are a few others like me - Pravin Gandhi of Infinity Venture (also now at Seedfund) is one name that comes to mind - who have concentrated small bits of money and large chunks

Re: [silk] Lack of seed level funding in India: further thoughts?

2007-05-15 Thread Ravi Pratap Maddimsetty
On 5/14/07, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Vinit Bhansali wrote: [ on 06:31 AM 5/15/2007 ] >After all ... Many of the variables are similar .. It's not like different >issues/services/technologies are being used in different markets. Same GSM, >same J2ME, same .Net, same AJAX, same e

Re: [silk] What fun! Create your own Open Source Cinema

2007-05-15 Thread Thaths
On 5/15/07, ashok _ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: it should probably not be called cinema... but something else. Re-mix-ima? Thaths -- Homer: He has all the money in the world, but there's one thing he can't buy. Marge: What's that? Homer: (pause) A dinosaur. -- Hom

Re: [silk] Splitting the bill

2007-05-15 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Udhay Shankar N wrote: [ on 04:23 PM 5/15/2007 ] It's sometimes awkward when the bill arrives at a large gathering of people at a restaurant - figuring out who pays what, &c. Here's an interesting study of precisely this problem. I'd be fascinated to hear comments from Madhu (and others!) on t

Re: [silk] What fun! Create your own Open Source Cinema

2007-05-15 Thread ashok _
i dont think stitching "raw pieces together" can make any kind of watchable cinema it should probably not be called cinema... but something else. On 5/15/07, Venkat Mangudi wrote: I think the difference is that everyone can be a part of creating the cinema. As I understand it, they ha

Re: [silk] What fun! Create your own Open Source Cinema

2007-05-15 Thread Christopher M. Kelty
source != actors/scenes source = footage, edits, tracks. the real question is, is it watchable? (i.e does it compile) :) ck On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:06:45AM -0400, Vinit Bhansali wrote: > Sounds more like long-distance collaborative production mixed with the CC > license > (CC=Creative Com

Re: [silk] What fun! Create your own Open Source Cinema

2007-05-15 Thread Vinit Bhansali
Sounds more like long-distance collaborative production mixed with the CC license (CC=Creative Commons). Still, how can movies be open source? How do I, as a contributor, go and edit another person's movie and remove person X from the cast and replace that with a person Y? - Vinit > -Origi

Re: [silk] What fun! Create your own Open Source Cinema

2007-05-15 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Thaths wrote: On 5/15/07, Venkat Mangudi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://opensourcecinema.org/ How is this different from a liberally CC licensed collection of work? I think the difference is that everyone can be a part of creating the cinema. As I understand it, they have requests out the

Re: [silk] What fun! Create your own Open Source Cinema

2007-05-15 Thread Thaths
On 5/15/07, Venkat Mangudi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://opensourcecinema.org/ Will this be destructive or constructive? Going by the open source revolution, it is surely going to change the way audio-visual art is being sold/presented to the world. How is this different from a liberally C

[silk] What fun! Create your own Open Source Cinema

2007-05-15 Thread Venkat Mangudi
http://opensourcecinema.org/ Will this be destructive or constructive? Going by the open source revolution, it is surely going to change the way audio-visual art is being sold/presented to the world. -Venkat

[silk] Splitting the bill

2007-05-15 Thread Udhay Shankar N
It's sometimes awkward when the bill arrives at a large gathering of people at a restaurant - figuring out who pays what, &c. Here's an interesting study of precisely this problem. I'd be fascinated to hear comments from Madhu (and others!) on this. Udhay http://www.chicagocdr.org/cdrpubs/pd