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The prize pays £25,000
Boy, does it ever pay. That' $39,355
Campbell shot his film in his own studio and at the Glasgow Art Institute. [Hey! Denver Art Institute is 2 blocks up on Lincoln ] His inspiration for the film was the 1953 documentary on African art and how colonization affects how it is perceived, called "Statues Also Die," thus the poster shown briefly in the background of this video reading Les statues meurent aussi.
What? No credit to Andy Warhol? Come on Duncan, you are sure to have head of him. It all seems so obvious and so lame to me.
What? No mention of Native American art, and the affects of colonization on how it is perceived?
No mention of Inuit art?
No clovis art?
No totem poles?
No Aztec, Mayan, Mixtec, Moche, and a thousand others?
No Japanese art and the affects of opening Japan has on how it is perceived.
No Chinese art and the affects of Marco Polo exploration
No Indian Southern Continent and the affects of how it is perceived by colonization
Conversely, nothing to say about Western art and the affects of world trade. Just as Westerners suffer tattoos of Chinese characters with only a vague idea of their meaning, so too do Asians wear Nike sports clothing and t-shirts with random Western lettering without a clue to their meaning. Because they like them.
Yes, yes, yes, we take their stuff and admire it because we like it, just as they take ours. It's called exchange, and the affects on how we perceive it, and use it whether as religious or totems or objects of utility matters not.
Don't get me started or I'll make a video of the affects of the horror that spread the globe like a virus, the cheap resin monoblock chair. You cannot escape them.
Johannesburg:
India
Mozambique
Cuba
Free wheelchair mission
Tulum Mexico
Ghana
Turkey
Iraq
Well, maybe I did make up that last one. The point is made. We use each other's stuff and sometimes even apart from their original purpose. It is a good thing, not something to get worked up about.
12 comments:
Chip Ahoy said...
... the cheap resin monoblock chair ...
Hey, I love those things...cheap and comfortable, especially if in the Adirondack chair style. I have several and they wear out (crack and break down) in about 3 years or so) and I just go buy new ones. I did, however, go and buy some fancy chairs for our porch, and they are terribly uncomfortable...but oh so purty.
My choices then, real hand made wooden Adirondack chairs for about $200 each, or the plastic copies for about $25 each. Decisions are hard, eh?
True story:
An elderly and overweight gentleman at my gym took one of those chairs into the shower stall and sat down to shower.
On this occasion, his weight spread the bottom of the chair slightly and his testicles slipped down through the slots in the bottom of the chair.
When he attempted to stand up he found that his testicles were trapped by the slots in the bottom of the chair as they came together when he lifted his weight. He couldn't get up. He called for help.
A close friend was on the scene and responded by going upstairs to the front desk and asking for a pry bar and immediate assistance.
The desk personnel were flummoxed but did provide a large screwdriver.
It all ended well as a little pressure from the screwdriver was enough to twist open the slots enough to allow my friend to manually push the testicles (one per slot) up and out of the danger zone as the crowd looked on.
The elderly gent has not returned to the gym. My friend is now a legend in the small world of our local gym.
When looking for indoor furniture for my first apartment where I lived by myself, I found an outdoor patio set that was utterly beautiful. Some kind of iron in green patina floral design. Amazing. Glass table top. $2,000. I nearly bought it for indoors. My rental house was quite rustic. It would have fit perfectly. But honestly, too heavy to push the chairs around. And it might not fit elsewhere.
I do not comprehend these chairs. They're left out, get filthy. They're just the worst. They displace real furniture. Now that they're everywhere, and they are everywhere. I hate them.
For I am a patio chair elitist.
I bought this bench a long time ago. I thought it was neato-mosquito. Carved in Canada, two horses heads. Iron wood. I paid a LOT of $$$.
Then in Mexico I saw a knock off carved in darker and much lighter wood, for 1/4 what I paid. Grrrrrr.
I used it inside directly in front of the aquarium. People would come over just to sit in it and observer the little fishies swim about, but when I moved my friends put it out on the deck where it gets full sun part of the day.
Ladies see it from the party room above three floors above and from apartments higher up. It causes curiosity. I know because they tell me. They are very interested in what the rest of my place looks like based on the bench (and the large model yacht sail that works as a curtain. When they visit they insist on a tour. (I always thought that was weird at my parent's house, I mean, who cares?) They want to know how the other half lives. I suppose. Believe it or not, the bench, along with a decent terrace garden is a real babe magnet. They want to sit on it. The bench. Sit on the bench. You perv.
Let me add that the elderly gentleman featured was not me.
Rabel...I admit I've never caught my testicles in the slot(s) of my cheap chairs.
But then I seldom sit in them nekid :-) It's Haram in my neighborhood.
I agree with Chip that good looking furniture can be had, it's just too expensive for my tastes as yard furniture...normally. I but I can make an exception.
That said, I am planning to buy three genuine Adirondack style wooden (hard wood) chairs for the porch, and at least one with the de rigueur foot stool. I figure the $800, including shipping costs, or so, is worth it, just to be rid of the nice upholstered POS's that I have now ... which will go to the curb on "junk day" here and will be purloined by someone within an hour. I hope they get the same butt hurt those POS chairs have given me :-)
One of the reasons is that I once again can now sit on the front porch and "smoke" a vaper electronic cigarette. Using the real thing once gave me great pleasure as a moment to relax and not think about anything stressful. BTW..my oncologists (lung cancer) told me it was okay to use the vaper cigarettes....and the benefit is that the nicotine reduces my urge to drink cognac...I am now at a 90% reduction because of it. MY goal, which I will attain, is 100%..e.g., dry & sober once again, like the previous 15 years.
One fool, well known here and at TOP, asked me if I would be satisfied with the 80% reduction I mentioned a week or so ago...he's an idiot, and evidently has no idea of what "alcoholism" is...you always shoot for 100% dry and sober. I am on the way and I will make it. Been there, done that, before. It's easier now.
And, in ending, thank you all who've not made it an issue when I revealed the problem and Lem pasted my mea culpa. All y'all made it easier ...simple as that.
I thought Adirondack chairs were things that you make yourself using your crafty aptitude and wit with wood.
A friends brother visited from Boston and cranked out a lounge chair over a weekend.
In Denver it dries out so fast it must be oiled every year or so.
For $800 you can fly to Mexico and have the pick of the lot. They have very nice ones
Some kind of wood sometimes woven with leather seat and backs. Like this. I see them everywhere. Sometimes even in restaurants indoors.
Chip ... that (your link) is NOT an Adirondack chair. t
This is one and it is ultimately comfortable.
Lazy is (me) as lazy does :-)
White things with their legs in the air pic
Rabel - the cheap plastic can have sharp edges too. The guy is lucky he escaped unharmed. Mentally scared and a tad embarrassed, but with testicles in tow. Good story (lesson). :)
Plastic, plastic, plastic plastic chairs,
Goodness how ubiquitous, molded plastic chairs.*
*To the tune of Eating Goober Peas.
A do-over:
Chairs chairs chairs chairs, molded plastic chairs,
Goodness how ubiquitous, molded plastic chairs.
One of those inventions whose ubiquity silently proves it's genius day after day. Simultaneously effective at it s primary function, while also achieving the lowest price, most stackable, lightest weight, most easily cleaned and highly weather resistant awards. It has facilitated immeasurable amounts of conversation, bonding, partying and relaxation and drunkenness among millions who could neither afford nor required something else. I wish I invented it.
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