Re: [Leica] Leica Users digest V10 #19

["Dan Post" <dwpost@email.msn.com>]

Harrison-
Reminds me of the art teacher/instructor whose favorite phrase, when
examining an objet d'art, was, "notice how it catches the light...."
It became a catchphrase that I use even unto now, when I see some chintzy
schmutz being passed of as art (or craft).
Dan ( It represents the chronosynclastic infundibulum of one's inner
conciousness....)

- ----- Original Message -----
From: Harrison McClary <harrison@mcclary.net>
To: LUG <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 10:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica Users digest V10 #19


> When I was in college there was one teacher (I REFUSE to call this guy a
> professor) in the photo section who was into the art stuff.  I was a
> journalism major and not too terribly interested in some of the junk this
> guy was into.  Anyway the first day in class I turned in some stuff I
> shot around town.  He hated it and went off about how bad it was..funny
> cause the next day one of the pics from that take was on the front of the
> now dead Nashville Banner.
>
> After that I shot rocks on the side of the interstate...he loved it and I
> made an A in the class....He would talk on and on about how I spent so
> much time looking for these shots ect...BS I spent maybe 10 minutes max
> shooting....then made up some good BS about the photos and what they
> symbolized (I was an English minor after all) and made a good grade.
>
> The best one was a friend of mine came up to me really upset cause all of
> his stuff looked like KAKA...out of focus underexposed and generally
> terrible.  He had forgotten about the next days assignment till midnight
> the night before.  It was raining so he rode around in a hatch back with
> the hatch up shooting photos.....I told him to tell the teacher he was
> trying to show what the world looks like to a drunk driver....he got a B
> on something that should have been an F just for making up this BS....
>
> BTW please note I am not anti art...just don't think art should be
> defined by the words placed on it.  If it walks like a duck and talks
> like a duck IMHO it is a duck no matter what you call it.
>
> On 7/14/99 5:09 PM Zeissleica@aol.com wrote:
>
> >One of my instructors said art is anything we touch as "artists" (note
the
> >distinction between touching and creating).  He loved my project; I
gathered
> >up 30 bags of leaves, trudged up to the top of an 18 story building with
> >them, leaned out a window and burned tons film as they were dumped off
the
> >top floor (almost got arrested for it).
> >
> >I thought it was a joke, but he gave me an A for the piece.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Harrison McClary
> email: harrison@mcclary.net
> http://www.mcclary.net
> preview my book: http://www.volmania.com
>
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