3:00 snapshot #730

[urbpan]

I was hoping this one looked more "horror movie" and less "boring."

Cartoonist Nina Paley posted a link on Facebook of a parody of a typical photo blog. It was full of competent photos of plates of food and other mundane objects, and the text was vapid and self-important. It hit a little close to home, I have to admit. I'm going to soldier on and keep doing the snapshot thing. I think it may take a long time before it develops depth as a project. The next two posts are for the 100 species project!

Comments

[plantmom.livejournal.com]

Everything they said, and said so well. FWIW, I have an "art" degree, but I think it's total bullshit.

When I was in college, PowerPoint hadn't been invented yet. Art History classes were done with slides, if you can imagine. They were subject to flaws due to how they were stored. I distinctly remember my VERY FAMOUS art history professor talking about a painting in class one day, and mentioning how the bright green in the lower right corner I-don't-know, "energized" the whole piece.

I silently laughed my ass off. I'd done the reading from our textbook the night before, and I knew that green wasn't in the original. It had to be evidence of damage to the slide done by heat or suchlike. And like the story of the Emperor's new clothes, no one dared speak up.

You, urbpan, are the real deal.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I'm old enough to have gone to art school with carousel slide show art history classes too. I wonder if today's students have more luck staying awake with powerpoint art history classes?

Thanks for the kind words. :)